The University of Michigan Symphony Band opens its season with a concert that boldly announces the start of a new year. First we celebrate the 200th anniversary of one of the first original overtures written for winds. Then the music of contemporary American composer James Stephenson takes over, including the commission of a new setting of his "Spinning Wheel" for trumpet and wind ensemble featuring SMTD Professor Robert Sullivan as trumpet soloist. Another Symphony Band commission opens the second half from U-M alum Shuying Li before the concert concludes with Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Morton Gould's classic Symphony no. 4 for band.

Jason Fettig, conductor

PROGRAM

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy/Ed. Hogwood, Overture in C for winds (1838 version)

James M. Stephenson, Spinning Wheel

James M. Stephenson, Declaration

Shuying Li, Luminance

Morton Gould, Symphony no. 4, West Point

GUEST ARTIST BIO:
https://smtd.umich.edu/profiles/robert-sullivan/