The Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band close out their season with a perfect harmony of innovative works and traditional sounds. Puhu Tuul by Estonian composer Ott Kask will stretch your idea of what a concert band can sound like. David Biedenbender’s Unquiet Hours explores some dark emotions before Cait Nishimura’s Chasing Sunlight takes us back into the light. David Maslanka’s Give Us This Day, originally scheduled for the final concert of Spring 2020, is dedicated to the memory of UMass bassoonist Quinn Woodworth.

After the exciting opener, Shoutout, by University of Michigan composer Roshanne Etezady, the Wind Ensemble pays tribute to UMass Professor of Piano Nadine Shank (1954-2020) with some poignant music by Bach. Grainger’s masterpiece Lincolnshire Posy and Florent Schmitt’s tour-de-force Dionysiaques close out the year with a bang.

SYMPHONY BAND

Puhu Tuul (2010 - Ott Kask

Unquiet Hours (2017) - David Biedenbender (Madeline Wight, conductor)

Chasing Sunlight (2017) - Cait Nishimura (Samantha Franciosa, conductor)

Give Us This Day (2006) - David Maslanka

WIND ENSEMBLE

Shoutout (2009) - Roshanne Etezady (Samantha Franciosa, conductor)

Komm, Susser Tod, BWV 478 (1703-7) - J.S. Bach

Lincolnshire Posy (1937) - Percy Grainger

Dionsyiaques, Op. 62 (1913) - Florent Schmitt