WEEKEND 3
CONVERSATIONS
AND MUSIC
FRIDAY JUNE 17 @7
IMPROVISATION IN MUSIC
Bennie Wallace, Doug Davis,
Composers and instrumentalists
A performance and discussion of the role of improvisation and variation in music composition and jazz performance. Program to be announced at event.
Bennie Wallace
Saxophone Instrumentalist, film composer, recording artist and founder of BackCountry Jazz, a Greenwich-based non-profit focused on music education programs for at risk youth in Bridgeport as well as jazz concerts including the new annual Greenwich Jazz Festival.
Doug Davis
Composer, concert producer, performer and retired professor of Music at UCLA Bakersfield. He also manages the Doug Davis Composition and Performance Endowment.
SATURDAY JUNE 18 @7
A COMPOSERS LIFE:
Conversation and Performance
By Will Healy
New York-based composer and pianist Will Healy will discuss the life of a present day composer and play his own works as well as works by teachers and others who have inspired and influenced him.
SUNDAY JUNE 19 @2
STRIKE UP THE BAND:
Connecticut Symphonic Winds
Conducted by Charles DePaul
Overture to Candide
Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
Under the Magical Wing
David Gillingham (1947)
The Hounds of Spring
Alfred Reed (1921 - 2005)
Symphony #2 (2nd Mvt)
Howard Hanson (1896 - 1981)
Casey at the Bat (w/narration)
Randol Alan Bass(1953)
Symphonic Metamorphosis, March
Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963)
Sheltering Sky
John Mackey (1973)
Resplendent Glory
Rossanno Galante (1967)
Variations on America
Charles Ives(1874 - 1954)
Charles DePaul, Music director of the 70-piece band will present a historical survey of American music for concert band.