When
23rd May 2021
The University of Melbourne Wind Symphony, Sunday 23 May 2021
Conductor: Nicholas Williams
Wind Symphony and Concert Band Program
Program
CONCERT BAND
Vaughan WILLIAMS
Flourish for Wind Band
Erika SVANOE
Echoes*
Cait NISHIMURA
Merry Go Round
Edward GREGSON
Festivo
John ZDECHLIK
Chorale and Shaker Dance
John Barnes CHANCE
Incantation and Dance
INTERVAL - 20 MINUTES
WIND SYMPHONY
David GILLINGHAM
Concertino for Four Percussion
and Wind Ensemble*
Joan TOWER
Fascinating Ribbons*
Cathy LIKHUTA
Home Away From Home*
Darius MILHAUD
Suite Francaise
Omar THOMAS
A Mother of a Revolution!**
*Victorian Premiere
**Australian Premiere
Credit Notes
Program Notes
A welcome message from the Conservatorium Director
After the privations of 2020, the opportunity for students and staff in the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music to work together again in the fabulous Ian Potter Southbank Centre has been a wonderfully intensive and euphoric experience for us all! After practising alone for months, we have a deeper understanding that collaboration is at the essence of music, and that sharing this rewarding experience with the public is its most important gift to us all. We are listening with fresh ears and responses, and we are energised by the mutual empowerment and inspiration that blossom when we play and listen together. We are thrilled to perform for you in the Melbourne Town Hall! This performance featuring the University of Melbourne Concert Band and Wind Symphony, under the direction of Associate Professor Nicholas Williams, has been prepared with great enthusiasm and anticipation. The program includes compositions written in the UK, France, US, and Australia, and many of the works will be receiving their Victorian and Australian premieres. The music will display the fabulous array of vibrant colours, energies, and rhythms that are uniquely attainable with large ensembles of wind, brass, and percussion instruments, and I know you will delight in the sonic power and spectacle the students will create together.
I invite you to enjoy this shared opportunity to connect together once again in public, and also to reflect on music as a shared feast of sensation, sentiment, contemplation, and enjoyment. Each composition on the program offers very different resonances and reflections on the richness and complexity of human experience. Let us also listen with respectful acknowledgement of the traditional owners of this land and their Elders past and present, seeking to grasp the immense time scale of their experience and depth of their knowledge as the first musicians, artists, poets, botanists, astronomers, and healers in this extraordinary place.
I am looking forward to hearing a kaleidoscope of dazzling sounds with you in the Melbourne Town Hall! This concert attests to the unstoppable energy that music gives us, and which we seek to amplify and share with you. I congratulate all our student musicians for their success in tonight’s performance and I thank you for joining us!
Professor Richard Kurth
Director | Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
Location
Melbourne Town Hall
Further information
Type: Concert
School: Melbourne Conservatorium of Music