Pre-concert conversation with composer William Bolcom, musicologist Steven Whiting, and Michael Haithcock at 7:15PM in the lower lobby.

Michael Haithcock, conductor, Chad Burrow, clarinet.

What would the Symphony Band have looked like in 1817? Discover the answer through an arrangement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 published in the same year U-M was founded. The founding father of U-M’s historic composition department, Ross Lee Finney, and one of it’s most famous members, William Bolcom, are also represented with pieces emblematic of their Pulitzer Prize-winning music. Gustav Holst’s cherished First Suite concludes this historic review.
PROGRAM: Beethoven (arr. Schmidt)- Symphony No. 1; Finney- Skating on the Sheyenne; Bolcom- Clarinet Concerto, Chad Burrow, soloist; Holst- Suite in E-flat