Future doctors, scientists and engineers of the world will focus their brainpower on their music talents tonight at Eisenhower Auditorium.

The Concert Band and Campus Band are performing in what could be considered their final exam of the semester, said Greg Drane, assistant director of the Blue Band and conductor of the Concert Band.

"The Concert and Campus Bands are two groups that are mostly comprised of non-music major students who take this as a class," Drane said. "It's an opportunity for students who have musical experience to continue to play their instruments in the concert setting."

Erik Jester (graduate-performance) is acting as the other conductor of the Concert Band, also known as the first section of Music 82, he said.

"It's designed primarily to give non-music majors an opportunity to continue playing music in a non-threatening, yet challenging musical atmosphere, in this case Concert Band," Jester said. "It has proved to be challenging and very rewarding to me to get to work with those in the band, and it's a lot of fun."

There are between 50 and 60 members in each band, Jester said, and the members reflect a wide variety of different majors and age groups.

"I have had students miss rehearsals because of math conflicts, science conflicts, business conflicts, engineering conflicts, etcetera. These students are incredibly bright people and probably represent each college within the university. We have all walks of life, all kinds of majors, and we have freshmen, master's students and doctoral students in our groups," he said.

Interacting with this broad array of majors is one aspect that the band has to brag about, Drane added.

Auditions for Concert Band, along with the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, will be held during the first week of spring classes.