Nothing Gold Can Stay Steven Bryant Born: May 28, 1972, Little Rock, Arkansas Composed: 2016 Duration: 9 minutes Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. -Robert Frost Nothing Gold Can Stay was commissioned as a surprise gift for Kevin Sedatole in honor of his first ten years at Michigan State University. His conduct

2017-2018 University of Maryland Wind Ensemble Repertoire Symphonic Metamorphosis Friday, October 13, 2017​, 8 pm Michael Votta, Jr., music director Brian Coffill, Joseph Scott, & David Wacyk, assistant conductors ​ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Divertimento in E-Flat Major, K. 166/159d Michael Votta, Jr., conductor Vincent Persichetti, Pageant, Op. 59 David Wacyk, conductor Steven Bryant, Nothing Gold Can Stay Ralph Vaughan Williams, English Folk Song Suite I. March: Seventeen Co

Huntingtower: Ballad for Band Ottorino Respighi Born: July 9, 1879, Bologna, Italy Died: April 18, 1936 Rome, Italy Composed: 1932 Duration: 7 minutes Ottorino Respighi composed Huntingtower in 1932, on a commission from the American Bandmaster’s Association (ABA), in honor of the recently deceased conductor and musical icon, John Philip Sousa. Edwin Franko Goldman and the ABA approached Respighi shortly after Sousa’s death, hoping for a work that the United States Army Band

Courtly Dances from Gloriana, Op. 53a Benjamin Britten Born: November 22, 1913, Lowestoft, United Kingdom Died: December 4, 1976, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom Composed: 1953 Original Instrumentation: Opera Orchestra Arranged: 1995, Jan Bach Duration: 10 minutes Gloriana, Op. 53, Benjamin Britten’s sixth opera, was commissioned by Covent Garden, and “dedicated by gracious permission to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in honour of whose coronation it was composed.” William Plomer a

The Solitary Dancer Warren Benson Born: January 26, 1924, Detroit, Michigan Died: October 6, 2005, Rochester, New York Composed: 1970 Duration: 7 minutes The Solitary Dancer is considered a masterpiece in economy of resources, sensitivity for wind and percussion colors and subtle development and recession of instrumental and musical frenzy. The work refers to the “quiet, poised energy that one may observe in a dancer in repose, alone with her inner music.” Just prior to writi

Fantasia in G Major, BWV 572 Johann Sebastian Bach Born: March 21, 1685, Eisenach, Germany Died: July 28, 1750, Leipzig, Germany Composed: c. 1703-1707 Original Instrumentation: Pipe Organ Arranged: 1957, Richard Franko Goldman and Robert L. Leist Duration: 7 minutes The great G Major Fantasia for organ was composed between 1703-1707 during Bach’s residence in Arnstadt. It was here, at the beginning of his career, that his music was found by the Consistory to be too full of “

American Guernica Adolphus Hailstork Born: April 17, 1941, Rochester, New York Composed: 1982 Duration: 7 minutes University of Maryland Wind Ensemble "Strike Up The Bands" Friday, March 10, 2017, 8 pm Elsie & Marvin Dekelboum Concert Hall Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center The University of Maryland at College Park American Guernica was written in remembrance of the September 15, 1963 fire-bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, a racially-motivat

Symphony For Band (No. 6), Op. 69 Adagio; Allegro Adagio sostenuto Allegretto Vivace Vincent Persichetti Born: June 6, 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Died: August 14, 1987, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Composed: 1956 Duration: 17 minutes University of Maryland Wind Ensemble "Strike Up The Bands" Friday, March 10, 2017, 8:00 pm Elsie & Marvin Dekelboum Concert Hall Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center The University of Maryland at College Park Vincent Persichetti’s Symphony No

Toccata “After Girolamo Frescobaldi” Gaspar Cassadó Born: September 30, 1897, Barcelona, Spain Died: December 24, 1966, Madrid, Spain Composed: 1925 Arranged: 1955, Earl Slocumb Duration: 6 minutes University of Maryland Wind Ensemble "Strike Up The Bands" Friday, March 10, 2017, 8 pm Elsie & Marvin Dekelboum Concert Hall Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center The University of Maryland at College Park A toccata is an improvisatory form of instrumental music, originally written

Florentiner Marsch, "Grande marcia Italiana,” Op. 214 Julius Fučík Born: July 18, 1872, Prague, Bohemia Died: September 25, 1916, Berlin, Germany Composed: 1907 Duration: 6 minutes University of Maryland Wind Ensemble "Strike Up The Bands" Friday, March 10, 2017, 8 pm Elsie & Marvin Dekelboum Concert Hall Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center The University of Maryland at College Park The Florentiner March, “Grande marcia Italiana,” was written in 1907 by the prolific Bohemian