University of Arkansas Wind Symphony 2012
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Wind
Symphony and Symphonic Band will perform in Walton Arts Center’s Baum Walker
Concert Hall on Monday, Oct. 8. The concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. and are presented
by the department of music in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and
Sciences as part of the Joy Pratt Markham Series.
The concerts will feature guest percussionists Chalon
Ragsdale, professor of percussion, and Fernando Valencia. The percussion duo
will be performing the Concertino for
Solo Percussionist and Band by Jack Stamp.
The Symphonic Band will be conducted by Christopher
Knighten, associate professor of music and director of university bands, with
one selection conducted by graduate student Alex Bandour. Wind Symphony will be
conducted by W. Dale Warren, professor of music, with one selection conducted
by Benjamin Chamberlain, assistant professor of music and associate director of
bands.
“We hope that the community will come support us at this
concert,” said Warren. “The students have prepared extremely hard for this
performance, and we are looking forward to hearing our guest percussion artists.”
Valencia, a Bogota, Columbia native, is the former principal
percussionist of The National Wind Symphony of Colombia. He has performed with
the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, The Bogota Philharmonic, Philharmonic
of Southern New Jersey, The Symphony of Northwest Arkansas and the Arkansas
Philharmonic among others.
The program is as follows:
Symphonic Band, Knighten, conductor
- The Duke of
Marlborough Fanfare by Percy Grainger
- Flourish for Wind Band
by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Badour, conductor
- Elegy by John
Barnes Chance
- Suite Française by
Darius Milhaud
—Intermission—
Wind Symphony, Warren, conductor
- Jingo by Magen
Miller
- Hammersmith - Prelude
& Scherzo, Op. 52 by Gustav Holst
- The Wind and the Lion
by Jerry Goldsmith
- The Promise of Living
by Aaron Copland, Chamberlain, conductor
- Concertino for Solo
Percussionist and Band by Jack Stamp, featuring Ragsdale and Valencia
- Soundings by
Joseph Turrin
General admission is $10, $5 for senior citizens and $1 for
students. Walton Arts Center is located on Dickson Street in downtown
Fayetteville. Paid parking is available in lots near Walton Arts Center.