Notable Pieces

2021-2022

“Festive Overture” - Dmitri Shostakovich/Hunsberger

“Fantasy Variations on a Theme by Paganini” - James Barnes

“Autumn Walk” - Julian Work

“Roma” - Valerie Coleman

“Out to Sea and The Shark Cage Fugue” - John Williams/Bocook

“Harry’s Wondrous World” - John Williams/Lavender

“Sensemayá” - Silvestre Revaultas/Bencriscutto

“Red Sky” (Trombone Concerto) - Anthony Barfield [Dr. Andrew Lankford, faculty trombone soloist]

“Circuits” - Cindy McTee

“Duende” - Luis Serrano Alarcón

Symphonic Band
“Mother Earth: A Fanfare” - David Maslanka

“Honey in the Rock” - Donald Grantham 

“Molly on the Shore” - Percy Grainger

“Paris Sketches” - Martin Ellerby

Wind Symphony
“Bum’s Rush” - Donald Grantham

“Symphony No. IV: Bookmarks from Japan” - Julie Giroux

Sinfonía No. 3 “La Salsa” I. Tumbao - Roberto Sierra/Scatterday

“Variations on America” - Ives/Schuman/Rhoads

“Andante and Hungarian Rondo” - Carl Maria von Weber/R. Mark Rogers [Dr. Sue Barber, faculty bassoon soloist]

“Sweet Chariot” - Carlos Simon

“Carmina Burana” - Carl Orff/Krance

Symphonic Band
"Safety, A Fluttered Heart" - Joe Jaxson (World Premiere/JMU Student Composer)

"Saturn Returns" - Michael Markowski, Guest Composer [Amy Birdsong, guest conductor]

Wind Symphony 
"City Trees" - Michael Markowski, Guest Composer

"Distant Mountains" - Jack Yagerline (World Premiere/JMU Student Composer)

"Matsuri" - Eric Guinivan, Faculty Composer (World Premiere, 2022 Walter Beeler Memorial Prize Winner)

    I. Fireworks at Ryogoku Bridge
    II. Bells on New Year's Eve
    III. The Burning of Mount Wakakusa
2020-2021

2019-2020

"Urban Requiem" for Sax Quartet & Wind Ensemble" - Michael Colgrass

"Shanghai Overture" - Bright Sheng

"Catfish Row" (music of Porgy and Bess) - Gershwin/Hunsburger 
Dr. Sonya Baker, soprano & Michael Richardson, baritone [starts at 37:50]

"Postcard" - Frank Ticheli

"Caboclo (Flute Concerto)" - Jess Langston Turner
Dr. Beth Chandler Cahill, flute

"Ecstatic Waters" - Steven Bryant

"The Wild Goose" - Ryan George

"Come Sunday" - Omar Thomas

2018-2019

2017-2018

2016-2017

Maslanka's Remarks at 22:45 & 1:12:10

Symphonic Band - "Give Us This Day" (28:10)

Wind Symphony - "A Child's Garden of Dreams" (1:18:20)

2015-2016

2014-2015

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