We hope that you will be able to join us for the first concert of the 2025-26 season of The University of Texas Wind Ensemble. The concert will be held in Bates Recital Hall at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 21. We would like to extend complimentary admission to you and your students. All requests for student group comp tickets should be sent directly to the Butler School Box Office at: tickets@mail.music.utexas.edu. The earlier you make a request, the more likely it is that we'll have seats still available! I would like to request that accurate numbers be requested, please. At several concerts last year, schools requested large numbers of tickets but less than half of those were actually claimed. It would be helpful to receive an accurate number, or an email informing us that a smaller number will be required so that we can accommodate as many patrons as possible.
The concert will open with Richard Strauss’ Festival Entry, a reworking of his original piece for brass ensemble, Feierlicher Einzug. This version is for organ and brass, featuring the magnificent Visser-Rowland organ. Following the Strauss our professor of clarinet, Jonathan Gunn will be the soloist in the Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622 accompanied by a chamber wind ensemble, orchestrated by Robert Rumbelow. The Clarinet Concerto was composed in the final year of Mozart’s life, and was among that amazing collection of pieces written by him in that final year; two concerti, two operas, a string quintet and three choral works, including the unfinished Requiem.
Following intermission, the program will conclude with Michael Martin’s remarkable, Lontano: Symphony for wind ensemble. Written in three movements, the first is entitled: “In the void, alone,” and consists of the following sections: The Void , Alone , Glow, Sunrise , Terror, Orb , Immersion, The Void, Alone. This is followed by the frantic second movement, “Interlude: Spiral” and the work concludes with the spectacular third movement, “Horizon.”
We hope that you and your students can join us for what will be a terrific concert as we begin another year of concert performances. The concert will be webcast: https://vimeo.com/event/5370464
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