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2021-2022
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Notable Pieces

"Of Our New Day Begun" - Omar Thomas (April 6, 2016)

"Matsuri" - World Premiere of JMU Faculty Composer, Eric Guinivan (Winner of the 2022 Walter Beeler Composition Prize)

"Distant Mountains" - World Premiere of JMU Student Composer, Jack Yagerline

"Safety, A Fluttered Heart" - World Premiere of JMU Student Composer, Joe Jaxson

2021-2022

September 30, 2021

“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

November 4, 2021

“Sensemayá” - Silvestre Revaultas/Bencriscutto

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

“Circuits” - Cindy McTee

“Duende” - Luis Serrano Alarcón

December 8, 2021

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

February 26, 2022

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

April 6, 2022

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

COVID-Adapated Full Band Performances

COVID-Adapted Chamber Performances

2019-2020

October 23, 2019

"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]

February 22, 2020

"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

"The Frozen Cathedral" - John Mackey

"Awayday" - Adam Gore

"Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" - Richard Strauss/Hindsley

"there are no words" - James M. Stephenson (Guest Composer in Residence) [JMU Symphonic Band]

"Symphony No. 2" - James M. Stephenson (Guest Composer in Residence) [JMU Wind Symphony]

2017-2018

"The Seeker" - David Maslanka

"New Morning for the World" - Joseph Schwantner/Pilato [Dr. Joanne V. Gabbin, narrator]

"Rhapsody in Blue" - George Gershwin/Hunsberger [Provost Heather Coltman, piano soloist]

"In My Father's Eyes" - Julie Giroux

"Coast of Dreams" - Paul Dooley (Guest Composer in Residence) [John Nye, trumpet]

2016-2017

David Maslanka - Guest Composer in Residence

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

"Of Our New Day Begun" - Omar Thomas (Guest Composer in Residence)

"Carnival of Venice" - Jean-Baptiste Arban [Joel Collier & Ryan Stees, euphonium soloists]

2014-2015

"Fractured Light" - Eric Guinivan (Faculty Composer)

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