Concert Information


Our Winter Concert explores the idea of being immediately and vividly alive in the moment, the reason why music making can be so vital and compelling. Shostakovich's exhilarating Festive Overture opens the program, Steven Bryant's Dusk captures the reflective calm of a sunset, and Letter from Home by Aaron Copland will take you through moments of subtle beauty, melancholy, nostalgia, and simple charm.


Trumpet virtuoso Eric Berlin (principal trumpet, Albany Symphony) will join us for Joseph Turrin's tour-de-force The Sounding of the Call, and the ensemble will show off all of its colors during Percy Grainger's difficult concert march The Lads of Wamphray, a musical depiction of the battles between cattle-raiding, swashbuckling English and Scottish borderers in the sixteenth century. The concert will close with David Maslanka's short symphony for winds Give Us This Day. Music allows us to connect with what David called a "true awakeness and awareness," and Give Us This Day attempts to provide all of us a moment of awakeness and awareness so that we can "build a future in the face of a most dangerous and difficult time"... together. Come be in the moment with us!

Festive Overture, Op. 96Dmitri Shostakovich/trans. Reynolds
DuskSteven Bryant
The Sounding of the Call
Eric Berlin, trumpet soloist		Joseph Turrin
Letter from HomeAaron Copland/arr. Belski
The Lads of WamphrayPercy Grainger
Give Us This DayDavid Maslanka
Matthew Westgate

Admission

Adult: $18
Senior (62+): $14
Student (5+): $6
Child (under 5): Free