University Bands Close 2012-13 Season With Two Nights of Music

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Benjamin Pierce

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The University of Arkansas Campus Band, Wind Symphony, Concert Band and Wind Ensemble will close their 2012-13 season with performances at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 22, and Tuesday, April 23, at Fayetteville High School Performing Arts Center.

The Campus Band and Wind Symphony will give the Monday night concert. The ensembles will be conducted by senior Wind Band conductor W. Dale Warren and graduate conducting students Staci Hatmaker, Joel Head and Michael Moon.

Monday’s performance will also feature guest artist Benjamin Pierce, professor of tuba and euphonium in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

Pierce was the grand prize winner of the 2001 Japan Wind Percussion Competition in Tokyo and was the first euphonium player ever to be chosen as a finalist in the prestigious Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York City. He has served as principal tubist of the Ann Arbor Symphony and is principal tubist with the Symphony Orchestra of Northwest Arkansas.

The Tuesday night performance by the Concert Band and Wind Ensemble will be conducted by director of bands Christopher Knighten, associate director of bands Ben Chamberlain, guest conductor Karri Altrogge and graduate conducting students Alex Badour and Michael Moon.

The public is invited to attend both concerts and admission is free.

The program for each night is as follows:

Monday, April 22

• UA Campus Band conducted by Warren, Hatmaker, Head and Moon
• Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 by Johann Sebastian Bach
• Fallen, Fallen is Babylon! by Jared Spears
• Sheltering Sky by John Mackey
• The Machine Awakes by Steven Bryant

-Intermission-

• UA Wind Symphony conducted by Warren and Head
• Ecstatic Fanfare by Steven Bryant
• Passacaglia (Homage on B-A-C-H) by Ron Nelson
• Elegy for Albinoni by Shelley Hanson
• Brothers in Arms by Jeremy Doss
• Tuba Concerto by Donald Grantham
• Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber by Paul Hindemith

Tuesday, April 23

• UA Concert Band conducted by Chamberlain, Altrogge and Badour
• Overture for Winds by Charles Edward Carter
• Old Scottish Melody by Charles Wiley
• Joy Revisited by Frank Ticheli
• A Grainger Set by Percy Grainger
• Variations on a Korean Folk Song by John Barnes Chance

-Intermission-

• UA Wind Ensemble conducted by Knighten and Moon
• Funeral Music for Queen Mary (After Henry Purcell) by Steven Stucky
• Serenade in Eb Major, Op. 7 by Richard Strauss
• Vientos y Tangos by Michael Gandolfi
• Semper Fiedelis by John Phillip Sousa
• The Circus Bee by Henry Fillmore