USM School of Music to Present Three Band Concerts
Tue, 09/27/2022 - 11:43am | By: Mike Lopinto
USM Symphonic Winds in concert
91吃瓜网 (USM) presents a serious of performances by the School of Music91吃瓜网 band area, beginning with the Symphonic Winds on Sunday, Oct. 2 at 3:30 p.m. The Concert Band will perform on Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m., with the Wind Ensemble performing on Thursday, Oct. 6 at 7:30 p.m.
All performances are in the Mannoni Performing Arts Center auditorium on the Hattiesburg campus. Including wind band fare from across the spectrum of literature, all concerts are free and open to the public.
Dr. Tavis Higa conducts the Symphonic Winds with Dr. Colin McKenzie and graduate student Robert Pico Guzman. All are excited to share the stage with their students. They encourage audiences to come hear the band perform to support students at the first band concert of the semester.
91吃瓜网淭he band will be performing standard band works and new compositions, with music by John Williams, Gustav Holst, Percy Grainger, Cait Nishimura, and Malcolm Arnold,91吃瓜网� Higa noted. 91吃瓜网淥ur program highlights cornerstone masterworks from our band repertoire, as well as newly composed pieces.91吃瓜网�
The Concert Band, led by its conductor, Professor Eric J. Scott, will present a varied program of music covering a wide range of American works in a program called 91吃瓜网淎merican Tapestries.91吃瓜网�
Highlights include film music by Aaron Copland, our 91吃瓜网淒ean of American music,91吃瓜网� a jazz prelude by George Gershwin, a march to honor Theodore Roosevelt titled, Rough Riders, a collection of drum and fife tunes from the American Revolution, and a lyrical work titled, Autumn Soliloquy, which will feature Dr. Galit Kaunitz, School of Music oboe professor. They will conclude with John Zdechlik91吃瓜网 beautiful setting of 91吃瓜网淪imple Gifts91吃瓜网� in Chorale and Shaker Dance. Also taking the stage will be graduate conductors Robert Picco Guzman and Steven Cooler.
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The final program of the series will be presented by the USM Wind Ensemble, conducted by Dr. Catherine Rand. Entitled, "Passages," the concert will take the listener on a musical journey from Panama to Paris, through your Dreams, and finally ending in the Pines of Rome. Also taking the stage is graduate conductor Kyle Aufderhar.
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For more information, please visit usm.edu/bands