The Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band open the 2019-2020 season with a combined concert of music that celebrates different voices, rising above hate. Special guest conductor Myron Welch will conduct a piece with both ensembles as part of this year’s UMass Wind Studies conductor-in-residence program.

SYMPHONY BAND

Folk Dances (1942) - Shostokovich, arr. Reynolds

Chester (1956) - Schuman (Jose Ignacio Blesa Lull, graduate conductor)

Five Miniatures (1930) - Turina (Myron Welch, guest conductor)

City Trees (2012) - Markowski (James Minnix, graduate conductor)

Angels in the Architecture (2008) - Ticheli

WIND ENSEMBLE

Downey Overture (2011) - Navarro

Of Our New Day Begun (2015) - Thomas

Sketches on a Tudor Psalm (1971) - Tull (Myron Welch, guest conductor)

Symphony No. 3 (1958) - Giannini