Ring in the season with the Butler School of Music in this annual favorite. The concert will be anchored by our new Chamber Orchestra and choirs but will feature ensembles and student performers from across the program. You can expect to hear favorite carols and a few surprises.
Asriel Davis, piano & organ
Invoke String Quartet
James Weldon Johnson, arr. Younger
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, arr. Jackson
Deep River
Florence Price, trans. McHenry
Meditation
Sketches in Sepia
William Grant Still
Ennanga
Zenobia Powell Perry, trans. McHenry
Homage
Brandee Younger
Essence of Ruby
Maurice Draughn
A Canon of Peace
Irving Berlin
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor from Miss Liberty
Lee Hoiby
Lady of the Harbor from Three Women
Evan Mack
Preach Sister, Preach
Rosephanye Powell
Then, Here, and Now
Patrice Michaels
The Long View: A Portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Nine Songs
Wilhelm Magner, viola
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet No. 4 in G Minor, K. 516
Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D. 887
Farkhad Khudyev, conductor
Behzod Abduraimov, piano
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Polonaise from Eugene Onegin
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23
Margaret Bonds
Montgomery Variations
Jerry F. Junkin, conductor
Douglas Henderson, guest conductor
Gao Hong, pipa
Gao Hong
Musical Journey for Pipa and Band
John Mackey
Symphony No. 2 (U.S. premiere)
Madison Jackson, director | Douglas Kinney Frost, conductor
Sung in English with supertitles.
On July 16, 1945, New Mexicans awoke to Trinity, the world’s first nuclear test. Manhattan Project leaders did not inform residents, despite tens of thousands living nearby. In the years that followed, people in the surrounding areas began to report serious health issues. These individuals would be known as “Downwinders.” Downwind is the story of these people.
This opera is a world premiere, written by students Michael Smith and Demian Galvan, who traveled to New Mexico to help bring this story to life. Smith writes, “While the family in our opera is fictional, the reality that they face is not.”
Diego Rivera and Mike Sailors, directors
Peter Bernstein, jazz guitar
Leah Crocetto, soprano
Donnie Ray Albert, baritone
Ebonee Thomas, flute
James Maverick, piano
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Up Above My Head, I Hear Music in the Air
Give Me Jesus, traditional
Selections by Ricky Ian Gordon
Samuel Barber
Nocturne
Carlisle Floyd
Ain’t it a Pretty Night? from Susannah
Cole Porter
So in Love from Kiss Me, Kate
George Gershwin from Porgy and Bess
I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’
Bess, You Is My Woman Now
My Man’s Gone Now
Stephen Sondheim
Gustav Holst
Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity from The Planets
Claude Debussy, arr. Ravel
Trois Nocturnes
Muzio Clementi
Duet in B-flat Major Op. 12, No. 5
Leonard Bernstein, arr. Brownell
Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
Jerry F. Junkin, conductor
Emily Warren & T.j. Anderson, guest conductors
Ebonee Thomas, flute
Seraph Brass
Lindsay Bronnenkant
Tarot
Anthony DiLorenzo
Chimera
John Corigliano
Pied Piper Fantasy
Mary Elizabeth Bowden, trumpet
Raquel Samayoa, trumpet
Layan Atieh, horn
Lauren Casey-Clyde, trombone
Robyn Black, tuba
In its 11th season, Seraph Brass was founded by trumpet soloist Mary Elizabeth Bowden with a mission to showcase the excellence of women brass players. Winners of the American Prize in Chamber Music, the group has been praised for its “beautiful sounds” (American Record Guide), “fine playing” (Gramophone), and “staggeringly high caliber of performance” (Textura). Seraph Brass performs a diverse body of repertoire, ranging from original transcriptions to newly commissioned works and core classics. Members of Seraph Brass are passionate about music education and hold teaching positions at the University of North Texas, Shenandoah Conservatory, Texas State University, and Texas Lutheran University.
Diego Rivera and Mike Sailors, directors
Jerry F. Junkin, conductor
Cody Ray, guest conductor
James Dick, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff, arr. Patterson
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganinini, Op. 43
Samuel Barber
Commando March
Symphony No. 1 in One Movement (arr. Patterson)
J.D. Burnett, conductor
Thomas Weelkes
When David Heard
Eric Whitacre
When David Heard
Benjamin Britten
Rejoice in the Lamb
William Billings
I am the Rose of Sharon
Chester
Charles Ives
Psalm 90
Irving Berlin, arr. Ringwald
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor
Traditionals
Shenandoah (arr. Omar Thomas)
I’ve Been in the Storm So Long (arr. Jeffrey Ames)
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel (arr. Moses Hogan)
This Little Light of Mine (arr. Moses Hogan)
Douglas Kinney Frost, conductor
Il Tabarro
Yingmeige Xiong, stage director
Suor Angelica
Madison Jackson, stage director
Gianni Schicchi
Beatrice Huang, stage director
Sung in Italian with English with supertitles.
Like short stories, one-act operas pack a big punch! Puccini’s last completed work was a triptych of these one-acts, telling three separate stories with one common theme: a hidden death. Il tabarro tells the story of a love triangle on a French barge. When jealousy strikes, who will survive? Puccini then transports us to a convent in Suor Angelica, where we meet a young nun, sent away in shame after giving birth out of wedlock. When her aunt appears, will she deliver news of redemption, or bring about even more pain? Gianni Schicchi closes the trilogy with a musical farce of the highest order. A greedy family hires trickster Gianni Schicchi to re-write the will of their wealthy patriarch, but does he really have their best interests in mind? All these characters, all these stories, all crafted by a composer at the pinnacle of his career.
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