Children shimmy and adults tap their knee to the music that fills the auditorium.

The IU Southeast Concert Band presented their annual Winter Pops Concert on Sunday.

Philip A. Thomas directed the concert and the band consisted of 61 musicians and 15 different instruments.

Kathy Semonis, attendee and mother-in-law to trumpeter Alecia Semonis, said that the concert has a variety of songs. She was excited to hear the Symphonic Highlights from “Frozen.”

The song “The Bleak Midnight” was chemistry junior Chris Moris and attendees Norbert Hermann and Sue Hadfield’s favorite song played by the band.

Hermann enjoyed this song because it had an upbeat tempo. 

“It was really beautiful. The blending of horns and wind instruments was delightful,” Hadfield said.

Attendee Delores Mertl liked “A Gershwin Tribute to Love” because it is older and she remembers it from when she was younger.

Mertl’s retired daughter plays in the concert band. Mertl comes to every concert that her daughter is playing in because she enjoys them. “I have followed her around since sixth grade, it has been along time,” Mertl said.

Hermann and Hadfield have been coming together to this concert for seven to eight years, and they had nothing but great things to say about the concert band.

Hadfield cannot drive at night and she is grateful that IU Southeast offers concerts during the day. “It meets my needs,” she said.

The closing song was “Bond…James Bond” which made Hermann happy because he can remember the very first Bond film.

“[The music] uplifts me, brings up my spirit and soul. It does nothing for my body, it is collapsing,” he said.

When the doors opened and attendees got up to leave, a trail of compliments and admiration left the building.