November 22, 2024 | 7:15 pm
Pre-Concert Lecture: Symphony Band
Free - no tickets required
This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm Symphony Band performance.
Performances & Events
November 22, 2024 | 8:00 pm
Hill AuditoriumFree - no tickets required
Anchored by a residency with award-winning composer and Michigan alum Clarice Assad, the Symphony Band performs a collection of music that showcases dynamic emotional contrast and drama. One of the 2024 Concerto Competition winners, saxophonist Leo Schlaifer, will perform Joel Love’s beautiful Concerto entitled Solace. The concert will conclude with Assad’s substantial new work for winds, Multiverse, which re-imagines the story at the heart of Igor Stravinsky’s famous Rite of Spring.
Jason Fettig, conductor
Clarice Assad, composer and vocalist
Michael Haithcock, guest conductor
Leo Schlaifer, saxophone
PROGRAM
Dmitri Shostakovich, arr. H. Robert Reynolds, Prelude in E-flat minor
Dmitri Kabalevsky, arr. Donald Hunsberger, Overture to Colas Breugnon
Joel Love, Solace: A Lyric Concerto
Igor Stravinsky, arr. Mark Rogers, Fireworks, Op 4