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Mallory Thompson, conductor 

The ensemble’s final concert of the academic year celebrates the career and musical leadership of conductor Mallory Thompson, retiring from her Director of Bands position after 28 years at Northwestern University. The program, featuring a variety of wind ensemble favorites, opens with Dr. Thompson’s arrangement of the Prelude to Act III, Dance, and Finale from Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, which she dedicated to her teacher and mentor Donald Hunsberger. Concluding the evening is David Maslanka’s monumental Symphony No. 4. 

A celebratory reception will take place in the Pick-Staiger Concert Hall lobby following the performance. 

Richard Wagner (tr. Mallory Thompson), Prelude to Act III, Dance of the Apprentices, and Finale from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg 
Ben Horne, Deep River 
J. S. Bach (tr. Donald Hunsberger), Toccata and Fugue in D Minor 
David Maslanka, Symphony No. 4