Symphonic Band
Friday, April 29, 2022 at 7:30pm CDT
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
This performance will also be presented as a live stream.
Shawn Vondran, conductor
Joel Puckett and Omar Thomas represent prominent, newer voices in wind band composition. The gentle joy of Avelynn’s Lullaby was inspired by composer Puckett’s experiences as a father. Omar Thomas’s decidedly funky The Low-Down Brown Get-Down is, in his words, a soundtrack to an imagined blaxploitation film, “a genre of filmmaking aimed at African-American audiences which puts us in leading roles of stories that often followed anti-establishment plots.” The Symphonic Band’s program also features a beloved classic, a transcription of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition translating Maurice Ravel’s colorful orchestration to the wind band medium.
Joel Puckett, Avelynn’s Lullaby
Omar Thomas, The Low-Down Brown Get-Down
Modest Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel, trans. Lavender), Pictures at an Exhibition
Tickets are $6 for the general public and $4 for students with valid ID.
Sold OutPick-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.