Mark A. Norman, conductor. John Pasquale, guest conductor. Music from classic composers, antique organ music, folksongs and hymns are reconfigured into modern compositions performed by the Michigan Concert Band. Composer Brian Balmages intertwines the music of Respighi and Gabrieli in his “Fanfare Canzonique” while the American hymn “Shall We Gather at the River” and the Bach chorale “I Thank You God for All Your Good Works” are beautifully and powerfully presented in David Maslanka’s Symphony no. 9. Organ classics provide the source material for Binkerd’s “Noble Numbers” and U of M Associate Professor of Trombone David Jackson is featured in Turrin’s Illuminations. The concert and winter term concludes with Yo Goto’s frolicking and energetic arrangement of the famous Neopolitan song, Funiculi, Funicula. PROGRAM: Balmages – Fanfare Canzonique; Binkerd – Noble Numbers; Turrin – Illuminations: Concerto for Trombone, David Jackson, soloist; McAllister – Gone; Maslanka – Symphony no. 9; Denza/Goto – Finiculi, Finicula.