📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
🕢 7:30 PM ET

🎶 Featured Artists

• Diego Vásquez — Clarinet

🎼 Program

• Overture to “The Gadfly” — Dmitri Shostakovich, trans. James Spinazzola (Transcription Premiere)

• Waltz No. 2 from “Suite for Variety Orchestra” — Dmitri Shostakovich, trans. Johan de Meij

• Folk Festival from “The Gadfly” — Dmitri Shostakovich, trans. Donald Hunsberger

• “Brooklyn Bridge” for Clarinet and Symphonic Band — Michael Daugherty, with Diego Vásquez, clarinet

• March, Op. 99 — Sergei Prokofiev

📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
🕢 7:30 PM ET

🎶 Featured Artists

• Peter Chwazik — Bass

• Greg Evans — Drums

• Splinter Reeds

🎼 Program

• Montuno — Roberto Sierra, arr. James Spinazzola

• Obertura Bandida — Guido López-Gavilán

• Danza lucumí — Ernesto Lecuona, arr. James Spinazzola (Arrangement Premiere)

• 2/3’s Adventure — Carlos Henriquez, arr. James Spinazzola (Arrangement Premiere)

• Iskia Samaïsi from “Suite Persane” — André Caplet, ed. James Spinazzola (Splinter Reeds & CU Winds side-by-side)

• A Splinter in Time — James Spinazzola (Premiere)

• “Second Nature” Concerto for Saxophone Quartet — Viet Cuong (in a new arrangement for Splinter Reeds) (Premiere)

📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
🕢 7:30 PM ET | 6:30 PM Pre-concert talk with Michael Abels and Cornell faculty

The College of Arts & Sciences’ Arts Unplugged series brings research and creative works into the public sphere for discussion and inspiration. These engaging events invite a broad audience to celebrate the impact that work continues to have on humanity.

Michael Abels, guest composer
Lisa Williamson, soprano
Juliana Pepinsky, flute
Louis Arques, clarinet

Program

Unbound - Michael Abels, arr. Peter Martin
Winged Creatures - Abels, arr. James Spinazzola
Selections from “Omar” - Rhiannon Giddens & Michael Abels, arr. James Spinazzola
A Tone Parallel to Harlem - Duke Ellington, arr. Spinazzola

Michael Abels is an American composer best known for the opera Omar, co-written with Rhiannon Giddens and winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Music, and his scores for the Jordan Peele films Get Out, Us, and Nope.

📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
🕢 3:00 PM ET

Bradley Ethington, guest conductor
Andrew Zhou, piano

Program

Hungarian March from “The Damnation of Faust” - Hector Berlioz
Piano Concerto in F - George Gershwin
New Work - Chenghao Michalis Li
Bury and Rise - Kathryn Likhuta
additional works TBA