2016-2017 UMWO Season Concerts
"Black Sounds to Vivid Colors"
Michael Votta Jr., music director Lee Hinkle, percussion
Saturday, October 8, 2016, 8:00 pm
Elsie & Marvin Dekelboum Concert Hall
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
The University of Maryland at College Park
George Rochberg: Black Sounds for Small Orchestra Steven J. Kukla: Folksongs for Winds Steven Stucky: Concerto for Percussion and Wind Orchestra Lee Hinkle, percussion Karel Husa: Les Couleurs Fauves
"Variations on a Revolution"
Michael Votta Jr., music director
Saturday, November 5, 2016, 8:00 pm
Elsie & Marvin Dekelboum Concert Hall
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
The University of Maryland at College Park Johann Sebastian Bach: Aria with 18 Variations, BWV 988, "Goldberg Variations," arr. Michael Colgrass
Silvestre Rivueltas: Sensemaya, arr. Frank Bencriscutto Leo Brouwer: Cancion de Gesta
Antonio de Cabezón: Tiento del Segundo Tono (Prelude in the Dorian Mode), arr. Percy Grainger
"Circus Maximus"
Michael Votta Jr., music director
Brian Coffill and David Wacyk, assistant conductors
Sunday, December 4, 2016, 8:00 pm
Elsie & Marvin Dekelboum Concert Hall
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
The University of Maryland at College Park
Emile Bernard: Divertissment, Op. 36 David Wacyk, conductor
Eric Ewazen: Symphony in Brass
Brian Coffill, conductor
John Corigliano, Symphony No. 3, "Circus Maximus"
"Cheating, Lying... Paraphrasing"
Michael Votta Jr., music director
David Wacyk, assistant conductor
Friday, March 3, 2017, 8:00 pm
Elsie & Marvin Dekelboum Concert Hall
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
The University of Maryland at College Park
"A Marriage of Figaros"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Selections from The Marriage of Figaro, arr. Johann Wendt
Jonathan Dove, Figures in the Garden
David Lang: Cheating, Lying, Stealing
Edgard Varèse: Integrales
David Wacyk, conductor
Selected Works of Frank Zappa
"Exotic Birds"
Michael Votta Jr., music director
Rita Sloan, piano
Bonnie Alger, Brian Coffill, and Joseph Scott, assistant conductors
Friday, April 7, 2017, 8:00 pm Elsie & Marvin Dekelboum Concert Hall
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center The University of Maryland at College Park
Ludwig van Beethoven: Octet/Rondino Joseph Scott, conductor Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques Rita Sloan, Piano Henry Wixon: Double Quintet (World Premiere) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-flat, K. 361/370a, "Gran Partita" Bonnie Alger, conductor Robert Kurka: Suite from The Good Soldier Schweik Brian Coffill, conductor
“The Sound of Light”
Michael Votta Jr., music director
Mark Hill, oboe
Saturday, May 6, 2017, 8:00 pm
Elsie & Marvin Dekelboum Concert Hall
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center The University of Maryland at College Park
Robert Gibson: The Sound of Light Lucas Foss: Oboe Concerto Mark Hill, oboe Joseph Schwantner: Luminosity (Concerto for Wind Orchestra)