Anchored by a residency with award-winning composer and Michigan alum Clarice Assad, the Symphony Band performs a collection of music that showcases dynamic emotional contrast and drama. One of the 2024 Concerto Competition winners, saxophonist Leo Schlaifer, will perform Joel Love's beautiful Concerto entitled Solace. The concert will conclude with Assad's substantial new work for winds, Multiverse, which re-imagines the story at the heart of Igor Stravinsky's famous Rite of Spring.

Jason Fettig, conductor
Clarice Assad, composer and vocalist
Michael Haithcock, guest conductor
Leo Schlaifer, saxophone

PROGRAM

Dmitri Shostakovich, arr. H. Robert Reynolds, Prelude in E-flat minor

Dmitri Kabalevsky, arr. Donald Hunsberger, Overture to Colas Breugnon

Joel Love, Solace: A Lyric Concerto

Igor Stravinsky, arr. Mark Rogers, Fireworks, Op 4