Normally, the end of the National High School Music Institute at the Bienen School of Music at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall signals a short and quiet spell on our stage, but not this summer.  A diverse set of recording sessions have, or will, fill the air at Pick-Staiger in August and September that are very promising. These sessions include the Black Music Repertory Ensemble recording of Olly Wilson’s “Of Visions and Truth” for small chamber ensemble (conducted by the composer) and “Five Movements in Color” by Mary Watkins for fifty-five piece orchestra. Mathew Coley, a recent BSOM alum and the newly appointed Professor of Percussion at Iowa State University, has recorded a Concerto for Marimba by the Polish composer Marcin Blazewicz, along with a number of solo works. Naumburg Award winning classical/jazz pianist (NU alum and Associate Professor at Loyola University) Anthony Molinaro is completing a new solo CD and video featuring the music of Debussy, Schubert/Liszt and Brahms. She-e Wu, Bienen School of Music Associate Professor of Percussion, will be recording the entire Bach cello suites, on a five-octave marimba. NU Professor of Horn, Gail Williams, will record works by Alec Wilder for horn, tuba and piano, and a newly commissioned horn quartet by Tony Plog. From what we have heard, all these recordings (to be released in the not too distant future) will be well worth a listen. We commend them to your attention.