Northwestern Events Calendar

Feb
17
2023

Symphonic Wind Ensemble

When: Friday, February 17, 2023
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT

Where: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 50 Arts Circle Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: Tickets are $8 for the general public and $5 for students with valid ID.

Contact: Concert Management Office   (847) 467-4000

Group: Bienen School of Music Concerts and Events

Category: Fine Arts

Description:

Mallory Thompson, conductor

On the subject of her work Magneticfireflies, Augusta Read Thomas explains, “One of the main intentions of this music is the juxtaposition between stark, bold, individual colors, such as a loud solo trumpet, Mahler style, with a completely blended timbre, Debussy style.” This is followed by Merlin Patterson’s wind band transcription of one of Debussy’s most-performed piano preludes, La cathédrale engloutie (The Engulfed Cathedral), depicting the grandeur of an enigmatic cathedral rising and falling into the sea. Concluding the first half of the program is Igor Stravinsky’s 20th-century masterwork Symphonies of Wind Instruments, at the core of which is a chorale written in memory of Claude Debussy. The second half of the program features a contrasting set of “symphonies” by Jeff Tyzik, who composed the work “during the pandemic as I began to feel very hopeful about the future and the value of music in how it can lift the human spirit.”

Augusta Read Thomas, Mageneticfireflies
Claude Debussy (trans. Merlin Patterson), La cathédrale engloutie (The Engulfed Cathedral)
Igor Stravinsky, Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Jeff Tyzik, Symphonies

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