📍 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)

📍 Havana & Matanzas, Cuba

• Repertoire from Fall Concerts & Additional Selections in Collaboration with the National Concert Band of Cuba
  

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

“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 explore the work of scholars, faculty and creative luminaries across disciplines in arts and sciences to celebrate the impact that work continues to have on humanity.”

🎶 Featured Artists

• Michael Abels — Composer

• Louis Arques — Clarinet

• Juliana Pepinsky — Flute

🎼 Program

• 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.

• Program TBA

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

🎶 Featured Artists

• TBA

🎼 Program

• Live Recording Session

• Program TBA