NEC Wind Ensemble + Peltz

Charles Peltz, Director of Wind Ensemble Activities, continues his season-long survey of Giovanni Gabrieli and conducts his NEC faculty colleague flutist Paula Robison in Vaughan Williams's Lark Ascending. Richard Henebry '12 M.M. takes over the podium for a new work by Michael Weinstein of the Berklee composition and horn faculties. Peltz closes the program with Olivier Messiaen's six-movement, brilliant, biblical, powerful Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum.

G. Gabrieli Canzona II (six players); Canzona XI (eight players in 2 antiphonal choirs)

Riegger Nonet for Brass
Richard Henebry ’12 M.M., conductor

Vaughan Williams Lark Ascending
Paula Robison, flute soloist

Messiaen Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum

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.