2023-2024 Concert Season

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 12pm, BAILEY HALL

This concert features continuous performances by subsets of the Wind Symphony, from flute choir to saxophone quartet, brass quintet to brass choir, and mixed instrumental ensembles to percussion groups. Also on the program are George Gershwin’s Cuban Overture (1932) and Richard Strauss’s Allerseelen (1885).

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 3pm, BAILEY HALL
Eric Troiano, soprano saxophone

Overture to “Colas Breugnon” - Dmitri Kabalevsky, trans. Donald Hunsberger
Adventures in the Air: Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Wind Ensemble - Mark Winges (premiere)
Danzón cubano - Aaron Copland, trans. Mark Rogers
Danzon No. 2 - Arturo Márquez, trans. Oliver Nickel
Movement 3, “Freedom Above All,” from Symphony No. 3 - Thomas Doss

JANUARY 2024: Community-Engaged Performance Tour of Havana & Matanzas, CUBA

Repertoire selected from Fall semester concerts

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 7:30pm, BAILEY HALL
College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA), Eastern Division Conference
Chris Coletti, trumpet
Eric Troiano, soprano saxophone
Laura Cetilia, Mark Winges, & Dana Wilson, guest composers

Cuban Overture - George Gershwin, trans. Mark Rogers
Whirlygigs at the Kinetic Playground from Adventures in the Air - Mark Winges
Batá - Tania León, arr. James Spinazzola (arrangement premiere)
Aristolochia - Laura Cetilia (transcription premiere)
Concerto for Jazz Trumpet and Wind Ensemble - Dana Wilson
Introduction and Contradance from Cecilia Valdés - Gonzalo Roig, arr. James Spinazzola (arrangement premiere)

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 12:30pm, BARNES HALL
CBDNA, Eastern Division Conference
Xak Bjerken, pianist

Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments - Igor Stravinsky
(This ensemble is comprised of members of the Wind Symphony and professional musicians.)

SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 7pm, BAILEY HALL
With the Cornell Chorus & Glee Club, conducted by Priscilla E. Browning Director of Choral Music Joe Lerangis
Sally Lamb McCune, guest composer

High Water Rising - Sally Lamb McCune
There - Viet Cuong
Here and Now - Christopher Theofanides (excerpted movements)
The Low-Down Brown Get-Down - Omar Thomas
Apothéose from Grande Symphonie funebre et triomphale - Hector Berlioz
Additional music TBA

2022-2023 Concert Season

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 7pm, BAILEY HALL
With YAMATAI, Cornell’s taiko drumming group

Overture to La forza del destino - Giuseppe Verdi
Symphony No. 4: Bookmarks from Japan - Julie Giroux

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 3pm, BAILEY HALL
Catherine Likhuta, guest composer
Alex Shuhan, horn
Victoria Miskolczy, viola
Bradley Ethington, guest conductor

Festive Overture - Dmitry Shostakovich, trans. Donald Hunsberger
The Engulfed Cathedral - Claude Debussy, arr. Merlin Patterson
A Place That Is Yours - Catherine Likhuta (premiere)
Concerto for Low Horn and Wind Ensemble - Likhuta
Me Disagrees - Likhuta

SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 3pm, BAILEY HALL
Josh Biggs, guest composer
John Haines-Eitzen, cello
Thomas Feng, piano

Adrenaline City - Adam Gorb
Suite in E-flat - Gustav Holst (student selection)
Amazing Grace - arr. Frank Ticheli
Half-Mast Inhibition - Charles Mingus
Spool - Josh Biggs (premiere)
Tumbao from Sinfonia No. 3, “La Salsa” - Roberto Sierra, trans. Mark Scatterday

SATURDAY, MAY 6, 7pm, BAILEY HALL
John Berners, guest composer
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano
Matthew Murchison, euphonium

The Moldau - Bedrich Smetana, trans. John Cacavas, ed. Mark Rogers (student selection)
All of Roses: Five Songs on Texts by D.H. Lawrence - John Berners (premiere)
Variations on a Tyrolean Theme - Jean Baptiste Arban
Divertimento - Oliver Waespe

2021-22

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 7pm, BAILEY HALL

Santa Fe Saga – Morton Gould
October – Eric Whitacre
Pasquinade – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, arr. Leidzen
On-Again, Off-Again – Jack Frerer

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 7pm, BAILEY HALL
With A.D. White Professor-at-Large WYNTON MARSALIS, guest composer
Grant Cooper, guest conductor
James Spinazzola, clarinet

“Profanation” from Symphony No. 1 - Leonard Bernstein, trans. Bencriscutto
Pasquinade – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, trans. Leidzen
“Blues” for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble – Wynton Marsalis, arr. Spinazzola
”Ragtime” from Jazz: 6 1/2 Syncopated Movements - Wynton Marsalis, arr. Spinazzola
”Jubilo” from Jazz: 6 1/2 Syncopated Movements - Wynton Marsalis, arr. Spinazzola
On-Again, Off-Again – Jack Frerer

FEBRUARY 18, 4:30pm, PEABODY CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, BALTIMORE, MD
COLLEGE BAND DIRECTORS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, EASTERN DIVISION CONFERENCE

Overture to “The Cowboys” - John Williams, trans. Lavender
“Blues” for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble – Wynton Marsalis, arr. Spinazzola
”Ragtime” from Jazz: 6 1/2 Syncopated Movements - Wynton Marsalis, arr. Spinazzola
”Jubilo” from Jazz: 6 1/2 Syncopated Movements - Wynton Marsalis, arr. Spinazzola
Bifrost - Jude Vaclavik
On-Again, Off-Again – Jack Frerer

SATURDAY, MAY 7, 3pm, BAILEY HALL
Greg Evans, drums

Overture to “Il Guarany” - Carlos Gomes, trans. Clarke
Concerto for Drumset and Wind Ensemble - Dana Wilson
Colonial Song - Percy Grainger
Bifrost - Jude Vaclavik
Conga del Fuego Nuevo – Arturo Márquez, trans. Nickel
Symphony No. 4 - David Maslanka

2020-21

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 3PM, CORNELL UNIVERSITY ARTS QUAD
WITH XAK BJERKEN, PIANIST

Serenade for Winds in E-flat, Op. 7 Richard Strauss, Omer Kayhan, guest conductor
Overture to “Treemonisha Scott Joplin, arr. Rick Benjamin
Rhapsody in Blue George Gershwin, trans. Donald Hunsberger
Little Threepenny Music Kurt Weill

2018-19

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 3PM, BAILEY HALL
“SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW”

Sonata pian’e forte Giovanni Gabrieli
Sinfonia for Winds Gaetano Donizetti
Overture to “Colas Breugnon” Dmitri Kabalevsky/trans. Donald Hunsberger
Huldigungsmarsch Richard Wagner
Southern Harmony Donald Grantham

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 7PM, BAILEY HALL
“SYMPHONIC DANCES”
WITH THE USAF HERITAGE OF AMERICA BAND & CORNELL DANCERS CHOREOGRAPHED BY JUMAY CHU

Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs Leonard Bernstein
Selections from “The Danserye” Tielman Susato/trans. Patrick Dunnigan
Montuno Roberto Sierra/trans. James Spinazzola
Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story” Bernstein/trans. Paul Lavender

SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, JACMEL, HAITI

With musicians from the Holy Trinity Music School, The Rev. David Cesar, conductor
Featuring the world premiere of a new composition by Haitian-American composer Sydney Guillaume

TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, CAROL MORGAN SCHOOL

Selections from tour program

SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 3PM, BAILEY HALL
JULIANA PEPINSKY, FLUTE
BARRY SHARP, GUEST COMPOSER
WITH THE ITHACA HIGH SCHOOL WIND ENSEMBLE

Capriccio Espagnol Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov/trans. Lawrence Odom
“Silver Lining” Flute Concerto Frank Ticheli
Familiar Landscapes Barry Sharp (premiere)
Romanian Overture Thomas Doss

SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 7PM, KLARMAN HALL
CORNELL WIND OCTET
WITH VOCALISTS BRIGID LUCEY, AUSTIN CODY and

Serenade in E-flat, K. 375 W.A. Mozart        
Bastien und Bastienne Mozart/trans. James Spinazzola

SUNDAY, MAY 5, 3PM, BAILEY HALL
DANIEL SABZGHABAEI, GUEST COMPOSER
WITH THE CORNELL CHORALE & CHAMBER SINGERS, STEPHEN SPINELLI CONDUCTOR

Rocky Point Holiday Ron Nelson
Lincolnshire Posy Percy Grainger
New Work Daniel Sabzghabaei (premiere)
Aurora Awakes John Mackey
Symphony of Psalms Igor Stravinsky

2017-18

FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, ARTS QUAD
INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT MARTHA E. POLLACK

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 3PM, BAILEY HALL
BLAISE BRYSKI, PIANIST
DAVID BORDEN & MARK WINGES, GUEST COMPOSERS

Variations on “America”Charles Ives/trans. William Rhodes
Variations on America by Charles Ives as Heard on the Jingle Jangle Morning in Emerson Playground by You and the Signers of the United States Constitution (and who knows, maybe the FBI) David Borden/ed. James Spinazzola
Breath & Hammers Mark Winges, with pianist Blaise Bryski (premiere)
Irish Tune from County Derry
Shepherd’s Hey Percy Grainger
Angels in the Architecture Frank Ticheli       

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 8PM, BAILEY HALL
JANICE MACAULAY, GUEST COMPOSER
WITH THE CORNELL KLEZMER ENSEMBLE
*FREE DANCE LESSONS AT 7PM!*

A Solemn Fanfare Byron Adams (premiere)
Early One Morning from “Old Wine in New Bottles” Gordon Jacob
March from “Symphonic Metamorphosis” Paul Hindemith/trans. Keith Wilson
Kaleidoscope Janice Macaulay (premiere)
Lost Vegas Michael Daugherty
Yiddish Dances Adam Gorb

SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2PM, WOOLSEY HALL, YALE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE BAND DIRECTORS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (CBDNA) EASTERN DIVISION CONFERENCE

Variations on “America” Charles Ives/trans. William Rhodes
Variations on America by Charles Ives as Heard on the Jingle Jangle Morning in Emerson Playground by You and the Signers of the United States Constitution (and who knows, maybe the FBI) David Borden/ed. James Spinazzola
Breath & Hammers Mark Winges, with pianist Blaise Bryski 
Acknowledgement from “A Love Supreme” John Coltrane, arr. Wynton Marsalis, trans. James Spinazzola
Prologue from “West Side Story” Leonard Bernstein, arr. Dave Grusin, trans. James Spinazzola, with trumpeter Paul Merrill
Overture to “Candide” Bernstein, trans. Clare Grundman

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 8PM, BAILEY HALL
WITH A.D. WHITE PROFESSOR-AT-LARGE WYNTON MARSALIS & THE CORNELL JAZZ ENSEMBLE

Overture to “Candide” LeonardBernstein, trans. Clare Grundman
Prologue from “West Side Story” Leonard Bernstein, arr. Dave Grusin, trans. James Spinazzola
Concerto for Cootie Duke Ellington, trans. James Spinazzola
Tourist Point of View from “The Far East Suite” Ellington & Billy Strayhorn, arr. James Spinazzola
Acknowledgement from “A Love Supreme” John Coltrane, arr. Wynton Marsalis, trans. James Spinazzola

SUNDAY, MAY 6, 3PM, BAILEY HALL
MICHAEL SPARHUBER, PERCUSSIONIST

Serenade in C minor, K. 388 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
”Hubris” from Wine-Dark Sea: Symphony for Band John Mackey
Percussion Concerto Jennifer Higdon, with percussionist Michael Sparhuber

2016-17

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 3PM, BAILEY HALL

Fanfare from “Soundings” Cindy McTee
Jug Blues and Fat Pickin’ Don Freund
Holy Roller Libby Larson, with James Spinazzola, saxophone & Joseph W. Hermann, guest conductor
Danzon No. 2 Arturo Marquez, trans. Oliver Nickel 
El Salon Mexico Aaron Copland, trans. Mark Hindsley
Head Rush Jay Bocook

FRIDAY, NOV. 18, 8PM, BAILEY HALL
JUSTIN CHERVONY, TUBA

Are You Experienced? David Lang, with Justin Chervony, tuba & Stephen Spinelli, narrator
Downey Overture Oscar NavarroToccata Marziale Ralph Vaughan Williams

Hymn for the Innocent Julie Giroux

Baron Samedi’s Sarabande (and Soft Shoe) Donald Grantham

Baron Cimetière’s Mambo Grantham

Folk Dances Dmitri Shostakovich, ed. H. Robert Reynolds

THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, KIOSK OCCIDE JEANTY, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
2010 EARTHQUAKE COMMEMORATION

With musicians from the Holy Trinity Music School, The Rev. David Cesar, conductor; and members of the Yale University Concert Band, Thomas Duffy, conductor

SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, PALAIS SANS-SOUCI, MILOT, HAITI
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE

With musicians from the Holy Trinity Music School, The Rev. David Cesar, conductor; and members of the Yale University Concert Band, Thomas Duffy, conductor

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

With the Carol Morgan School high school band, Cody Gifford, conductor

SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 3PM, BAILEY HALL
DAVID MASLANKA, GUEST COMPOSER
WITH THE ITHACA HIGH SCHOOL WIND ENSEMBLE

Cathedrals Kathryn Salfelder
Husa David Maslanka (premiere)
Symphony No. 8 Maslanka

SUNDAY, MAY 7, 3PM, BAILEY HALL

An Outdoor Overture Aaron Copland
Fanfare for Karel Dana Wilson (premiere)
Concertino for Piano and Wind Ensemble, Second Movement Karel Husa, with Andrew Zhou, piano
Berceuse Infinie Christopher Rouse, trans. James Spinazzola (premiere)
Music for Prague 1968 Karel Husa

2015-16

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 3PM, KULP AUDITORIUM @ ITHACA HIGH SCHOOL

mono no aware Simon Hutchinson (premiere)
Awayday Adam Gorb
Colonial Song Percy Grainger
Mountain Light Gerald Levinson
Armenian Dances, Part I Alfred Reed, with members of the Ithaca High School concert band directed by Nicki Zawel

FRIDAY, NOV. 20, 8PM, BAILEY HALL
PATRICK WILLIAMS, GUEST COMPOSER & CONDUCTOR

Symphonies of Wind Instruments Igor Stravinsky
An American Concerto Patrick Williams/arr. James Spinazzola, conducted by Mr. Williams (premiere)
Symphony No. 6 Vincent Persichetti

SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 3PM, BAILEY HALL

Velocity Meadows Christopher Stark, with video by Andrew Lucia and Emily DiAngelo, oboe
Prelude to Act III of “Lohengrin” Richard Wagner, arr. Drumm
“Blessed Are They” from Ein Deutsches Requiem Johannes Brahms, arr. Buehlman
Time’s Harvest Edwin Roxburgh
Redline Tango John Mackey

SUNDAY, MAY 8, 3PM, BAILEY HALL
COLONEL LARRY LANG, COMMANDER & CONDUCTOR OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE BAND, GUEST CONDUCTOR

Awayday Adam Gorb
Ballad for Band Morton Gould
Affirmation Wayne Oquin
Liquid Ebony Dana Wilson, with Richard MacDowell, clarinet
Firefly Ryan George
Symphony No. 2 Frank Ticheli

This program is presented in memory and honor of professors emeriti Marice Stith and Steven Stucky.