UMD Wind Ensemble: Strike Up the Bands

UMD Wind Ensemble: Strike Up the Bands

Friday, March 10, 2017 . 8PM
UMD Wind Ensemble

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The UMD Wind Ensemble is joined by the Eleanor Roosevelt High School Band for a side-by-side concert that includes band classics such as Morton Gould's Symphony No. 4 "West Point," which was commissioned for West Point Sesquicentennial Celebration, and Persichetti's masterpiece for band, Symphony No. 6. 

PROGRAM:

  • Gaspar Cassadó (attr. Frescobaldi): Toccata (1925)
  • Adolphus Hailstork: American Guernica
  • Vincent Persichetti: Symphony No. 6 
  • Julius Fucik: The Florentiner (with Roosevelt Band) 
  • Morton Gould: “Marches” from Symphony No. 4, “West Point” (with Roosevelt Band)