The University of Texas Wind Ensemble will present the fourth concert of our 50th Anniversary Season on Sunday, February 4 at 4:00 PM CST in Bates Recital Hall. The concert will open with Henri Tomasi’s Fanfares Liturgiques conducted by Dr. Marc Sosnowchick. We welcome back composer John Mackey who will be in residence at the Butler School for the week. Mackey has written for orchestras (Brooklyn Philharmonic, New York Youth Symphony), theater (Dallas Theater Center), and extensively for dance (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Parsons Dance Company, New York City Ballet), but the majority of his work for the past decade has been for wind ensembles (the fancy name for concert bands), and his band catalog now receives annual performances numbering in the thousands. In 2014, he became the youngest composer ever inducted into the American Bandmasters Association. In 2018, he received the Wladimir & Rhoda Lakond Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Professor of clarinet Jonathan Gunn will be the soloist for Mackey’s Divine Mischief, Concerto for Clarinet. Formerly principal clarinet of the Cincinnati Symphony and guest performer and teacher at numerous festivals and universities, Professor Gunn once again joins the Wind Ensemble for this spectacular tour de force.
Following intermission, the Wind Ensemble will perform the composer’s Symphony for Band, Wine-Dark Sea. This performance will occur almost ten years to the day after the world premiere that took place in 2014.
For this concert, unfortunately, we can only offer complimentary tickets to teachers as we are already approaching a sell-out. We would encourage you to purchase group tickets for your students. These can be obtained by contacting Marina Sakellakis, Box Office Manager @ tickets@mail.music.utexas.edu.
We hope that you and your students can join us for what will be a terrific concert to continue our 18-month-long celebration of this storied ensemble’s golden anniversary. For those of you unable to join us in person, we hope that you will tune into the livestream telecast, to be found here: https://vimeo.com/event/4047111
The entire program is as follows:
Sunday, 11/4 , 4:00 p.m. CST
Henri Tomasi – Fanfares Liturgiques
Marc Sosnowchik, guest conductor
John Mackey – Clarinet Concerto Divine Mischief
Jonathan Gunn, soloist
Consortium premiere
intermission
John Mackey – Wine Dark Sea
Hubris
Immortal thread, so weak
The attentions of souls
10th anniversary performance
(commissioned by The University of Texas Bands)
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