Performances & Events
April 12, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Hill AuditoriumFree - no tickets required
This finale concert of the 2024 season of the University of Michigan Symphony Band is filled with special moments. We welcome world renowned contemporary sextet Eighth Blackbird to perform Viet Cuong’s dynamic and inspiring Vital Sines, which was composed for the ensemble. The concert will conclude with a 90th birthday tribute to Director of Bands Emeritus H. Robert Reynolds, who will conduct a set of classic music by the incomparable Percy Grainger.
Jason Fettig, conductor
H. Robert Reynolds, guest conductor (Grainger)
Eighth Blackbird, guest artist sextet (Cuong)
PROGRAM
Ticheli, Postcard to Meadville, PA
Roshanne Etezady, Forty-Eight Colors of the Full Moon
Percy Grainger, A Grainger Ramble: Children’s March
Irish Tune from County Derry
Shepherd’s Hey
Larry Tuttle, TBD (New U-M commission)
Olivier Messiaen/ David Miller, Apparition de l’église éternelle (Apparition of the eternal church)
John Williams/ Paul Lavender, Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Viet Cuong, Vital Sines
April 11, 2024 | 3:00 pm
Free - no tickets required
SMTD is delighted to welcome the world-renowned contemporary chamber ensemble and four-time Grammy winners Eighth Blackbird. This free public master class will feature a brief performance by the artists as well as live coaching of several chamber groups comprised of SMTD students. Presented with generous support from the Sally Fleming Master Class Fund.
April 12, 2024 | 7:15 pm
Free - no tickets required
This lecture begins at 7:15pm before the 8:00pm Symphony Band concert, “Vital Signs.”