Yale Concert Band 2011-2012 Concert ScheduleConcerts are at 7:30 PM in Woolsey Hall and are free unless otherwise noted. Posters and press releases will be put up as they become available. All concerts in Woolsey Hall are streamed LIVE on the web -- click here on concert night to tune in. • Friday, October 14, 2011 -- Fall Concert Frank Ticheli's Symphony No. 1, featuring Eric Barry, tenor; Elegy, Prayer and Hymn: In Memoriam Michele Dufault (premiere) (Mark Camphouse); Roman Carnival Overture (Hector Berlioz); Children's March (Percy Grainger); Folk Song Suite (Ralph Vaughan Williams), and Rocky Point Holiday (Ron Nelson). • Sunday, October 23, 2011 -- 4:00 pm, Strathmore Concert Hall, Bethesda, MD with the SYGQ Chorus, Chai-lun Yueh, Music Director Ask the Sky and the Earth: A Cantata for the Sent-down Youth Music by Dongling Huo (Tony Fok), libretto by Wei Su Soloists: Min Chen, soprano; Weiling Shao, soprano; Andy Fei, tenor; Arthur Lai, tenor; Chai-lun Yueh, baritone And music by Berlioz, Grainger, Vaughan Williams. $ tickets: http://www.strathmore.org/eventstickets/calendar/view.asp?id=7643 • Saturday, October 29, 2011 -- Yale Family Weekend Concert With the Yale Glee Club, Jeffrey Douma, Music Director, and the Yale Symphony Orchestra, Toshiyuki Shimada, Music Director. (Though intended primarily for family members of Yale students, the public is invited and encouraged to attend!) • Friday, December 2, 2011 -- Blue Ink: Music of Yale Composers Premiere of Transcontinental by Nathan Prillaman '13; Premiere of Winter Concerto for Electric Violin by Anderson Alden '13, featuring Jourdan Urbach '13, electric violin. Blue Towers (I. Fine); Three Places in New Haven (T. Duffy), with the Yale Band Percussion Ensemble. Also pieces by Mendelssohn, Sousa, and Reed. • Friday, February 10, 2012 -- The Silver Screen: Music and Film Parliament in Flight (C. Dafnis), accompanied by a specially commissioned animation by A. A. Roberts; from the language of shadows (H. Hodge), accompanied by footage from F.W. Murnau's 1926 silent film Faust; Music from Halo (M. O'Donnell), accompanied by footage from the video game; Star Wars Trilogy (J. Williams/arr. D. Hunsberger); Green Fields: Elegy for Baritone and Chamber Winds, Dashon Burton YSM '11, baritone (Nick Baskin, YC '14). • Friday, March 30, 2012 -- Spring Concert with the Yale Band Percussion Ensemble Harvest: Trombone Concerto (J. Mackey), with soloist Scott Hartman; Blue Shades (F. Ticheli); Serenade for Winds (R. Strauss). To add these dates to your calendar, click your preferred format: Programming is subject to change. For a rehearsal schedule, click here.
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