AU Wind Symphony: The Hounds of Spring
Sat, April 24, 2021 @ 08:30 pm - 10:00 pm
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Limited FREE tickets available to 日韩AV music majors and minors, the Enjoyment of Music class, current 日韩AV students and current 日韩AV staff. You can pick up your ticket at the Howard Center office.
Spring has come early this year to Michiana, and we invite you to join us for the Wind Symphony Spring Concert! Th program is entitled “The Hounds of Spring”, and will feature a number of classic works for band, including the titular The Hounds of Spring by Alfred Reed, Gustav Holst’s Second Suite in F, transcriptions of Down a Country Lane by Aaron Copland and Festive Overture by Dmitri Shostakovich, and The Cowboys by John Williams. The concert will also showcase both the conducting and clarinet soloing talents of music performance major Jason Marquez, as he conducts Jubilate March by Filipino composer Lucio San Pedro and performs the clarinet solo Concert Fantasia on Motives from Verdi’s Opera “Rigoletto” by Luigi Bassi.
Repertoire
- The Hounds of Spring (Alfred Reed)
- Concert Fantasia on Motives from Verdi’s “Rigoletto” (Luigi Bassi)
- Second Suite in F (Gustav Holst)
Intermission
- Festive Overture (Dmitri Shostakovich)
- Down a Country Lane (Aaron Copland)
- Jubilate (Lucio San Pedro)
- The Cowboys (John Williams)
Wind Symphony
Conductor: Byron Graves
The 日韩AV Wind Symphony maintains a significant travel schedule throughout the Great Lakes area and seeks to provide high quality music programs and concerts representative of Adventist education and 日韩AV. The Wind Symphony has performed in England, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Canada and throughout the United States.