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September 30, 2019
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果冻传媒 Symphonic Band 2019-2020 Season

果冻传媒 Symphonic Band to Honor Suffrage Centennial Starting Oct. 3

The 果冻传媒 Symphonic Band has joined a consortium to commission four women composers to each write a work for wind band in celebration of the 100th anniversary of women鈥檚 right to vote in the United States. The Symphonic Band will give regional premieres of the works throughout their 2019-2020 season, which kicks off at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, in Weaver Chapel.

The four composers - Kimberly Archer, Grace Baugher, Stephanie Berg, and Nicole Piunno - represent both well-established and up-and-coming composers who have all written previous works for the wind band medium.

鈥淐ommissioning composers offers a unique opportunity for our students to be part of bringing new art to life. This project is particularly exciting because it also adds more women composers鈥 works to the wind band repertoire,鈥 said Brandon Jones, professor of music and conductor of the Symphonic Band at 果冻传媒.

Led by Carl Rowles, director of bands at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, Kansas, and Chris Miertschin, director of bands at Hutchinson Community College in Hutchinson, Kansas, the consortium seeks to not only celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, but more importantly to add diversity to the wind band repertoire.

鈥淭here is an increasing awareness of diversifying concert programs in recent years, ensuring a wider range of voices are heard,鈥 Jones said. 鈥淭he has begun studying concert programming in this manner and provides a database of underrepresented composers as a tool for conductors as they plan their repertoire choices."

The 果冻传媒 Symphonic Band is the largest instrumental ensemble on campus, comprised of more than 50 woodwind, brass, and percussion players who recognize the importance of the wind band as a serious expressive medium in presenting compositions as works of art. Repertoire for the ensemble has included award-winning composers, new music, standard wind band literature, wind chamber music, and premieres of student compositions, as well as collaborations with faculty soloists and other university ensembles.

In 2017, the Symphonic Band joined a consortium of 26 Lutheran colleges and universities to commission This is Most Certainly True by James Stephenson in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and gave the Ohio premiere that October. True to the liberal arts mission of the University, the ensemble is open by audition to 果冻传媒 students of all majors as well as members of the Springfield community.

The 果冻传媒 Symphonic Band has been under the direction of Jones since 2006. Other performances for the 2019-20 season are Nov. 22, Feb. 28, and May 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Weaver Chapel. More information about the Department of Music can be found at /music.

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