The sounds of freedom will breeze through the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Building when the EIU Wind Ensemble performs for the second time this year.

“Destination: Freedom!” directed by Director of Bands Lawrence Stoffel, will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday.

Stoffel said the theme was chosen to foster a spirit of inspiration and determination during these troubling months.

“It just seemed appropriate at this particular time given world events,” he said.

The first wind ensemble concert occurred two weeks after the events of Sept. 11, and Stoffel said the tone was more reflective. “This is an opportunity to move to a new perspective,” he said.

The ensemble will play music from four different composers, and all the music relates to the freedom theme, Stoffel said.

The ensemble will play three pieces from the “King of Ragtime” Scott Joplin, Stoffel said.

He said Joplin, a classically-trained African-American composer, earned a college degree in music, something unheard of for an African-American of that time.

Joplin’s pieces will depict freedom over racism, Stoffel said.

Berlioz’s “Hungarian March” will demonstrate how folk music can be turned into very nationalistic music and deals with freedom for the Hungarian nation during the Napoleonic Wars, Stoffel said.

“Overture in C,” composed by Catel, expresses the freedom the common French people sought during the French Revolution, Stoffel said.

Husa’s “Music for Prague: 1968” deals with the Czech people’s longing for freedom under Communist oppression, Stoffel said.

“This is a very dramatic presentation,” he said.

The concert is free and open to the public.