The University of Arkansas Wind Ensemble and Wind Symphony will open the fall concert season with performances at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, at the Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center. The concerts may also be seen via live stream from the program's website.

The Wind Ensemble's concert will be highlighted by a performance of Gustav Holst's masterwork Second Suite in F.  Gustav Holst (1874-1934), along with fellow English composer Ralph Vaughn Williams, led a revival of English folksongs by incorporating the tunes into new works. Holst'Second Suite in F  has matured into a staple of wind ensemble literature.

"It seems fitting to open the first Wind Ensemble concert in the Faulkner Performing Arts Center with a pillar of the wind band repertoire like Second Suite in F " said Chris Knighten, director of university bands.

The Wind Symphony will close its concert will a moving performance of Heroes, Lost and Fallen by David Gillingham. The piece was written as a memorial to those who lost their lives in the Vietnam War.  The piece drew inspiration from a poem written by Gillingham.

Banish our thoughts
From this grueling war.
Let Suffering and Death
Rule no more.

Resolve this conflict
In hearts so sullen
And bring eternal peace
To the heroes, lost and fallen.

Christopher Knighten, director of bands, conducts the Wind Ensemble. W. Dale Warren, senior wind conductor and professor of music, conducts the Wind Symphony. Selected pieces at the concert will be conducted by Taylor Young, graduate conductor, Jamal Duncan, assistant director of bands, and Ben Lorenzo, associate director of bands.

The concerts are presented by the Department of Music in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. The public is invited and tickets may by purchased online. 

The program is as follows:

Wind Symphony, W. Dale Warren, conductor

• The Star-Spangled Banner by John Stafford Smith arr. Jack Stamp
• University of Arkansas Alma Mater by Henry D. Tovey scored by Chal Ragsdale; David Malis, Baritone
• One Beautiful Life by Julie Giroux; Taylor Young Graduate Conductor
• Coil by Steven Bryant; Jamal Duncan, Guest Conductor
• Concerto for Trumpet and Symphonic Band by Alexander Arutiunian; Richard Rulli, trumpet
• Heroes, Lost and Fallen (A Vietnam Memorial) by David Gillingham

Wind Ensemble, Christopher Knighten, conductor

• Southern Harmony by Donald Grantham
• Lullaby for Noah by Joseph Turrin; Ben Lorenzo, Guest Conductor
• Second Suite in F by Gustav Holst