MIT's Annual Family Weekend Concert: Ingenious Transformations
MIT Wind Ensemble & Festival Jazz Ensemble
Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director
Kenneth Amis, Assistant Conductor.
For MIT’s Annual Family Weekend Concert, MITWE and MIT FJE feature music transformed from its original form, including Copland’s Down A Country Lane (heard for solo piano, performed by Charlotte Wickert, ’23, and transcription for wind ensemble), Sousa’s The Thunderer followed by Ira Hearshen’s After The Thunderer, an adagio take on the famed march, jazz arrangements of works from the libraries of Mingus, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, and music by Brazilian composer-vocalist Luciana Souza, Venezuelan composer Pedro Elías Gutiérrez, and Russian jazz composer-trumpeter Vitaly Golovnev, transformed for jazz orchestra.
The world premieres of Fanfare for the Uncommon in Common by MITWE alumnus and MIT Lecturer in Music, Benjamin Park ’10, and Depends by Jazz AMP scholar Tony Terrasa, ’21, and Robert Russell Bennett’s beloved Symphonic Songs round out this special celebration of diverse music.
Fall Reception to Follow
