Charles Peltz, Director of Wind Ensemble Activities, and William Drury, Associate Director of Wind Ensembles, lead their respective ensembles in works of Gabrieli, Felicia Sandler and others. Mezzo soprano and Director of Choral Activities Erica Washburn is vocal soloist in the Toensing work.
Richard Toensing: Night Songs
Erica Washburn, soloist; Jordan Winds
Hymn to Night
Let My Prayer Arise
Aware
Wann unsre Augen
O Joyous Light
Upon My Bed by Night
Ubodili tebya na rassvetyeh
Why is Light Given
Tikho liotsya tikhii Don
The Peace of Wild Things
Peace, Night, Sleep
Epilogue
Mozart: Bassoon Concerto (arr. based on Mozart's harmoniemusik model from wind serenades)
Joshua Baker '14, bassoon, winner of NEC Concerto Competition
David Lang: Cheating, Lying, Stealing (arr.for Wind Ensemble by the composer) Boston premiere.
NEC Wind Ensemble
Charles Peltz, conductor
The Gabrieli Project
In anticipation of the 400th anniversary of the death of composer Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1555–1612), members of the New England Conservatory community are joining forces to create and disseminate performing editions for modern instruments of some key Gabrieli early editions. The eight works that launch The Gabrieli Project will be performed on this season's NEC Wind Ensemble concerts. Participating in this project are NEC Wind Ensemble director Charles Peltz; Anne Hallmark and Rebecca Cypess of the Music History & Musicology faculty; composer Kathryn Salfelder '09; and baroque trumpeter Paul Perfetti '84, who performs with Boston Baroque, Emmanuel Music, and Handel and Haydn Society.
Are you an NEC faculty member or student who is giving a school concert? Submit your artist and repertoire information now!
VIRGIL THOMSON