Northwestern Events Calendar

Mar
14
2025

Symphonic Wind Ensemble: Take Me to Church

Roberty Taylor conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble onstage.

When: Friday, March 14, 2025
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM CT

Where: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Bienen School of Music, 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:

Robert Taylor, conductor; Imran Amarshi and Sheldon Frazier, doctoral assistant conductors; Ashrey Shah, clarinet (Northwestern Concerto Competition winner) 

Omar Thomas’s exuberant Come Sunday rounds out a program inspired by spiritual music. Featuring Bienen Concerto Competition winner Ashrey Shah in a performance of Scott McAllister’s Black Dog: Rhapsody for Clarinet (with playful references to Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”), as well as a new transcription of Margaret Bonds’s Spiritual Suite, the concert journeys from hymns, spiritual songs, and gospel music to life in the hereafter. 

Stephen Montague, Intrada 1631 (after Juan Pérez Bocanegra) 
Scott McAllister, Black Dog: Rhapsody for Clarinet 
Margaret Bonds (trans. Tyler Ehrlich), Spiritual Suite 
Omar Thomas, Come Sunday 

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