Symphonic Band
Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 3:00pm CDT
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Shawn D. Vondran, conductor
As the winter quarter comes to a close, the Symphonic Band offers a program looking to both the heavens and the earth, opening with Steven Bryant’s fanfare In This Broad Earth, inspired by his experience hiking in the Austrian Alps. Written after the death of the composer’s father, Viet Cuong’s Deciduous speaks to a healing and cyclical journey of renewal in the wake of grief and loss. Roshanne Etezady’s Anahita draws inspiration from both a Persian poem about the ancient Iranian goddess of the night and a 19th-century mural by William Morris Hunt depicting the goddess in her chariot. David Gillingham’s Waking Angels commemorates the lives lost to the AIDS epidemic, and the program closes with Omar Thomas’s uplifting Of Our New Day Begun—a work taking its title from the Black National Anthem, which opens with the phrase “Lift every voice and sing, ‘til earth and heaven ring.”
Steven Bryant, In This Broad Earth
Viet Cuong, Deciduous
Roshanne Etezady, Anahita
David Gillingham, Waking Angels
Omar Thomas, Of Our New Day Begun
Tickets are $6 for the general public and $4 for students with valid ID.
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Address
50 Arts Cir Dr
Evanston, IL 60208
United States
About
Pick-Staiger is a 972-seat hall located in the Arts Circle on the Evanston campus of Northwestern University. The main lobby entrance for concerts is on the west side of the building (revolving and regular doors). Since its inception in 1975, the hall has functioned as both a classroom and performance facility for Bienen School of Music performing ensembles, faculty recitals, festivals, and professional guest artists.