Symphonic Band meeting times: Monday-Friday, 2:50-4:05, MC070
Conductor: Dr. Eric M. Smedley
The Jacobs School of Music Symphonic Band performs major works of the traditional wind band repertoire as well as new compositions by leading composers. Consisting of both graduate and undergraduate music majors, this outstanding ensemble performs three concerts per semester and rehearses daily. A core group is often taken from the membership of the ensemble to form various chamber winds groups.
The band has played under the direction of various guest conductors including Frederick Fennell, Donald Hunsberger, John Whitwell and Ray Cramer; and composers Karel Husa, Warren Benson, Samuel Adler, and Frank Ticheli. The group has premiered works by David DeBoor Canfield, Eric Nathan, Jonathan Newman, and David Reeves. Soloists with the group have included guests or faculty members Kevin Bobo, percussion; Pete Ellefson, trombone; Steve Houghton, percussion; Timothy Noble, baritone voice; John Rommel, trumpet; Timothy Smith, piano; Thomas Walsh, saxophone; and Jonathan Whitaker, trombone.
Symphonic Band Spring 2022 Performances
Tuesday, February 8 – 8:00 p.m. – Musical Arts Center (Concert Band and Symphonic Band, live-streamed)
Tuesday, March 29 – 8:00 p.m. – Auer Hall
Tuesday, April 21 – 8:00 p.m. – Musical Arts Center (Band Showcase: all bands & Big Red Basketball Band; live-streamed)
Tuesday, February 8 program repertoire:
Fanfare and Allegro by Clifton Williams (Chris Nelson, conductor)
Strata by Neil Clifton Cain (premiere)
Fantasie of Passage for Solo Trumpet and Wind Band by Marcus Grant (Joey Tartell, trumpet)
A Moorside March by Gustav Holst
Tuesday, March 29 program repertoire:
Overture to Candide by Leonard Bernstein, arr. Beeler
Exotic Particles and the Confinement of Quarks: A Subatomic Fantasy for Wind Ensemble by Don Freund
Iridescent Transit (An Improvised Work for Winds and Percussion, 2022) by Eric M. Smedley
Kelly’s Field by Jennifer Higdon
La Tumba de Alejandro Garcia Caturla by Shelley Hanson
Ritual Dances by Shawn Okpebholo
Lincolnshire Posy by Percy Grainger
Thursday, April 21 (Spring Showcase) repertoire:
Rocky Point Holiday by Ron Nelson
Crossing Parallels by Kathryn Salfelder
Cosmopolitan America by Helen May Butler (Tess Jones, conductor)
