EUGENE–Spring term’s season of University of Oregon School of Music concerts will end this week with a pair of performances featuring percussionists and gospel musicians.

For more information, call the music school weekdays at (541) 346-5678. To confirm concert times and ticket information, call GuardLine from a Touch-Tone phone at 485-2000, ext. 2533, for a 24-hours-a-day taped message of the week’s events.

The University Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of graduate conductor Sean Wagoner, will give its final concert at 3 p.m. in Room 198 of the Music Building, 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets, available at the door, are $5 general admission and $3 for students and senior citizens.

The ensemble, composed of graduate and undergraduate performers, specializes in classic and contemporary music for percussion. Selections on the program include "Tribeca Sunflower" by Julie Spencer, "Quartet for Percussion" by William Kraft and two pieces by Michael Colgrass, "Invention on a Motive" and "Percussion Music."

The University Gospel Ensemble, Gospel Choir and Gospel Singers, all under the direction of Cedric Weary, will perform some of today’s greatest traditional and contemporary gospel music at 6 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Erb Memorial Union, 1222 E. 13th Ave. Tickets, available at the door, are $5 general admission and $3 for students and senior citizens.

The performance will feature songs by Kirk Franklin, Kurt Carr, New Divine Destiny, The Tri-City Singers and Lamar Campbell, as well as several arrangements by Weary.

Featured instrumentalists in the Gospel Band accompanying the singers are Thierry Renoux, Mark Schneider, Scott Rubey, Ehren Ebbage, Corwin Bolt, Jason Palmer and Dev Sanders.

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