Hodgson Wind Ensemble We are excited for another great year with the Hodgson Wind Ensemble! We continue to innovate our concert experience at the Performing Arts Center and have enjoyed wonderful feedback on our ideas. This year we welcome several guest composers to campus, Catherine Likhuta (all the way from Australia), Joel Love, Sally Lamb McCune, and Xi Wang, for premieres of their works, as well as the esteemed H. Robert Reynolds to guest conduct in March 2018. We undertake two major productions this year--a collaboration with the Hodgson Singers for the North American premiere of Catherine Likhuta's secular oratorio, "Scraps from a Madman's Diary," and John Corigliano's mammoth "Circus Maximus." And, this year's Hugh Hodgson School of Music Concerto Competition winner will perform for over 1000 high school musicians at Janfest. Fall 2017 Season Thursday, Sept. 1 - 8pm Hodgson Hall "Fire and Ice" or "Climate Change is Real Y'all" Figures Sonores (1984), Henk Badings Frozen Heat (1998), Dai Fujikura Poeme du Feu (1978), Ida Gotkovsky After a Gentle Rain, Anthony Iannaccone Frozen Cathedral (2013), John Mackey Thursday, Oct. 12 - 7:30pm Hodgson Hall, Thursday Scholarship Series (Composer-in-Residence, Catherine Likhuta, with guest artists, Hodgson Singers) Lollapalooza, John Adams Dragon Rhyme (2010), Chen Yi Funeral Music for Queen Mary, Steven Stucky Scraps from a Madman’s Diary, Catherine Likhuta (Commission/USA Premiere) Friday, Oct. 20 - Concert on the Lawn, North Campus Quad "Magic in the Air" Invictus, Karl King Wizard of Oz Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, J.P. Sousa The Wiz Barnum and Bailey’s Favorite, Karl King Wicked Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, John Williams The Magic Flute, Mozart/J. Heidenreich The Phoenix March, Sousa Tuesday, Nov. 14 - 8pm Hodgson Hall Matthew Sadowski, DMA candidate conductor Jonathan Poquette, DMA candidate conductor Subliminal Festa for Wind Orchestra, Akira Miyoshi A Movement for Rosa, Mark Camphouse Love Among the Ruins (2017), James Syler (commission) Maggie Synder, viola Panta Rhei, Ingrid Stolzel Lincolnshire Posy, Percy Grainger Spring 2018 Season Friday, Jan. 19 - “Janfest” Panoramic Fanfare, Tyler Grant (in lobby) Figures Sonores, Henk Badings Poeme de Feu, Ida Gotkovsky Concerto for Marimba and Wind Orchestra, Emmanuel Sejourne Trevor Barroero, marimba and 2018 concerto competition winner High Water Rising, Sally Lamb McCune (premiere) Frozen Cathedral, John Mackey Friday, Mar. 2 - 8pm Hodgson Hall H. Robert Reynolds, guest conductor, Xi Wang and Joel Love, guest composers Theme and Variations, Arnold Schoenberg Winter Blossom (2017), Xi Wang (premiere/memoriam for Steve Stucky) Saxophone Concerto premiere (2017), Joel Love (commission) Connie Frigo, saxophone Colonial Song, Percy Grainger Downy Overture, Oscar Navarro Thursday, Apr. 19 - 7:30 Hodgson Hall, Thursday Scholarship Series Punch, Katy Abbott Pictures Studies, Adam Schoenberg Riffs, Jeff Tyzik Timothy Adams Jr., percussion Melody Shop, Karl King