Reflections on the Mississippi
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 – 7:30pm
Meyerson Symphony Center
Charles Villarubia, tuba
Combine Malcolm Arnold’s classic Four Scottish Dances with Michael Martin’s exciting new Lontano: Symphony for Band, then mix in a dash of Charles Villarubia’s astonishingly expressive tuba on Daugherty’s Reflections on the Mississippi, and you’ll have a concert that covers all the bases, from classics to the cutting edge.
- Malcolm Arnold – Four Scottish Dances
- Josef Franz Wagner – Under the Double Eagle
- Michael Daugherty – Reflections on the Mississippi
Charles Villarrubia, tuba - Michael Martin – Lontano: Symphony for Band
- Sousa – The Gallant Seventh (encore)
October Overtures
Welcome Fall with Eric Whitacre’s lovely October and John Wesley Gibson’s We Will Always Share the Stars, then kick it up a notch with two martial favorites: Holst’s First Suite in E-flat for Military Band, and Tchaikovsky’s classic 1812 Overture. It’s gonna get loud!
- Dmitri Kabalevsky – Overture to Colas Breugnon
- Eric Whitacre – October
- Holst – First Suite in Eb for Military Band
- John Wesley Gibson – We Will Always Share the Stars
- Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky – 1812 Overture
- Sousa – Belle of Chicago (encore)
Maslanka’s Symphony No. 4
Two old favorites return to the repertoire with Ron Nelson’s Savannah River Holiday and John Mackey’s outstanding freshman effort, Concerto for Soprano Saxophone with Dallas Winds’ principal saxophone Don Fabian, soloist. We then pay tribute to the late David Maslanka with performance of his monumental Symphony No. 4.
- Ron Nelso – Savannah River Holiday
- John Mackey – Concerto for Soprano Saxophone
- David Maslanka – Symphony No. 4
Christmas At The Meyerson
Our annual holiday extravaganza is a Dallas family tradition!
- John Wesley Gibson – Angelic Fanfare
- Morton Gould – Jingle Bells
- Arr. Arthur Harris – The First Noel
- Arr. Arthur Harris – Deck The Halls
- Irving Berlin, arr. Brian Shaw – I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Brian Shaw, Trumpet - Arr. Arthur Harris – God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- David Lovrien – Minor Alterations: Christmas Through The Looking Glass
- Arr. John Wasson – We Three Kings
- Mel Tormé/arr. Biondi – The Christmas Song
Don Fabian, Alto Saxophone - Alfred Reed – Greensleeves
- Gustav Holst – Fantasia on The Dargason
- Christmas Sing Along
- Leroy Anderson – A Christmas Festival
Picture Studies
It’s a new arrangement for an old favorite as Jacco Nefs turns his talents to Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol. With that as an opener, the night can only get more exciting as trumpet wizard Ryan Anthony performs Alexander Arutunian’s iconic Concerto for Trumpet, and we bring video elements to Adam Schoenberg’s modern classic Picture Studies.
- Rimsky-Korsakov/arr. Nefs – Capriccio Espagnol
- Arutunian – Concerto for Trumpet
- Adam Schoenberg – Picture Studies
Band Blockbusters
If you love bands and band music, this bandilicious treat is the concert you’ve been dreaming of, with all time favorites from Morton Gould, John Williams, Percy Grainger, Frank Ticheli, Leonard Bernstein, and John Mackey. You won’t want to miss a note!
- Morton Gould – American Salute
- Claude Debussy – The Girl With the Flaxen Hair
- Emmanuel Chabrier – Marche Joyeuse
- Michael Daugherty – Rio Grande
- Sousa – The Glory of the Yankee Navy
- Frank Ticheli – Symphony No. 2 (Finale)
- J. Clifton Williams – Fanfare and Allegro
- Percy Grainger – Molly on the Shore
- Julius Fucik – Fanfare Sounds, Op. 278
- Luigi Zaninelli – The Magic Carousel
- Leonard Bernstein – March: The BSO Forever
- John Mackey – Antique Violences : Concerto for Trumpet
Jens Lindemann, trumpet - Gershwin – Someone to Watch Over Me (encore)
- Sousa – The Stars and Stripes Forever (encore)
American Bandmasters Association
If you love bands and band music, this bandilicious treat is the concert you’ve been dreaming of, with all time favorites from Morton Gould, John Williams, Percy Grainger, Frank Ticheli, Leonard Bernstein, and John Mackey. You won’t want to miss a note!
- Morton Gould – American Salute
- Claude Debussy – The Girl With the Flaxen Hair
- Emmanuel Chabrier – Marche Joyeuse
- Michael Daugherty – Rio Grande
- Sousa – The Glory of the Yankee Navy
- Frank Ticheli – Symphony No. 2 (Finale)
- J. Clifton Williams – Fanfare and Allegro
- Percy Grainger – Molly on the Shore
- Julius Fucik – Fanfare Sounds, Op. 278
- Luigi Zaninelli – The Magic Carousel
- Leonard Bernstein – March: The BSO Forever
- John Mackey – Antique Violences : Concerto for Trumpet
Jens Lindemann, trumpet - Gershwin – Someone to Watch Over Me (encore)
- Sousa – The Stars and Stripes Forever (encore)
The Last Jedi: The Music of John Williams
The new Star Wars movie will be released this December! And on March 27 we will present several all-new arrangements of Williams’ music along with gems from Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, and Hook and others.
- Summon The Heroes
- Wide Receiver (NBC football)
- The Patriot
- Flight to Neverland, from Hook
- Viktor’s Tale, from The Terminal
Deborah Fabian, clarinet - Harry’s Wondrous World, from Harry Potter
- For NY (for Leonard Bernstein’s 70th Birthday)
- Scherzo for Motorcycle and Band, from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)
- Far and Away
- Escapades (from Catch Me if You Can)
Stephen Page, saxophone
Pipes & Drums
We give the Meyerson’s magnificent Lay Family Concert Organ a real workout with Walton’s Crown Imperial and the world premiere of Andrew Boss’s Symphony for Organ and Wind Ensemble. If that’s not exciting enough, the Epoch Percussion Quartet brings the beat with Dinuk Wijeratne’s percussion concerto Invisible Cities.
- Walton – Crown Imperial
- Dinuk Wijeratne – Invisible Cities
Epoch Percussion Quartet - Andrew Boss – Symphony for Organ and Wind Ensemble
A Star Spangled Spectacular!
Wednesday, July 4, 2018, 1:00pm, Meyerson Symphony Center
Jeffrey Gershman, conductor
Strike up the band and hoist the stars and stripes — it’s a star-spangled salute to our country featuring patriotic music, confetti, and a cameo from Uncle Sam!