Rodney Dorsey, conductor. The Michigan Concert Band begins the year with repertoire that highlights musical quotations. Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance graduate Joel Puckett\&##39;s salute to Puccini\&##39;s Turandot and Johann Hummel\&##39;s Die Eselshaut have direct links to two different operatic periods. Doctoral student conductor Patrcia Cornett will lead the Concert Band in Vincent Persichetti\&##39;s Masquerade for Band, a work in which Persichetti quotes himself by borrowing material and techniques from his composition text Twentieth Century Harmony. The concert concludes with Symphony no. 2 by Frank Ticheli\&##39;s (another successful U-M graduate). Borrowing from J. S. Bach, the finale provides a rousing conclusion to our first program of the new semester! PROGRAM: Puckett - Ping Pang Pong; Holst - Bach Suite; J.S. Bach - Come Sweet Death; Grainger - Blithe Bells; Persichetti - Masquerade for Band Patricia Cornett, graduate conductor; Hummel - Die Eselshaut; Ticheli - Symphony No. 2