University of Maryland Wind Orchestra
Michael Votta, Jr., conductor
Cumulative Repertoire 2017-19
December, 2020
Danny Clay: "Music for Hard Times"
An improvisation-based work for the pandemic year created by UMWO, The LIving Earth Show and Danny Clay
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Darius Milhaud: La Creation du Monde
Antonin Dvorak: Serenade, Op. 44
Morten Lauridsen (arr. Reynolds): O Magnum Mysterium
Aaron Copland: Emblems
H Robert Reynolds, conductor
Dmitri Shostakovich (arr. Reynolds): Folk Dances (Youth Dance)
Friday, December 6, 2019
Björk: Overture to “Dancer in the Dark” (2000)
Luci Disano, conductor
Olivier Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (1964)
Jennifer Higdon: Fanfare Ritmico
Richard Strauss: Serenade
Florent Schmitt: Dionysiaques, Op. 62 (1913)
Friday, Nov. 1, 2019
Shuying Li: The Last Hivemind (2019)
James Stephenson: The Road Home
Chris Gekker, trumpet
Richard Strauss: Suite, Op. 4 (1884)
Bohuslav Martinu (arr. Rumbelow): Homage to Lidice (1943)
Mark Wilson: Oracles - 20 world premiere - UMD Commission
Friday, Oct. 4, 2019
Joseph Schwantner: The Awakening Hour (2017)
Michael Weinstein: Serenade for 12 Instruments (2002)
Herbert Haufrecht: Symphony for Brass and Timpani (1955)
Verne Reynolds: Scenes Revisited (1977)
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Ernst Krenek: Dream Sequence, Op. 224 (1976)
Joel Puckett: Shadow of Sirius - Sarah Frisoff, flute
Puckett: Knells for Bonnie - Sarah Frisof, flute
Stephen Jaffe: Symphony in Spiral and Light - world premiere - UMD Commission
Friday, April 19, 2019
“Conductors Concert”
Darius Milhaud: Suite Francaise - Luci Disano, conductor
Ida Gotkovsky: Concerto for Wind Orchestra - Dave Wacyk, conductor
Arnold Schoenberg: Theme and Variations, Op. 43a - Joseph Scott, conductor
Friday, March 8, 2019
“Immigrants 4”
Ingolf Dahl: Sinfonietta
Bright Sheng: La’I (Tibetan Love Song, 2005)
Friday, March 1, 2019
“Immigrants 3: Kurt Weill Festival”
Kurt Weill: Das Berliner Requiem (1928) - Aaron Peisner, conductor
with UM Men's Chorus
Weill: Vom Tod im Wald - Kevin Short, baritone
Edward Maclary, conductor
Weill: Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, Op. 12 (1925) - Irina Murusanu, violin
Edward Maclary, conductor
Weill: Little Threepenny Music - Andrea Brown, conductor
UM Wind Ensemble
Friday, December 7, 2018
“Happy Birthday, UMWO” - 10th anniversary concert
Ernst Krenek: Three Merry Marches - Craig Potter, conductor
Alexandre Borodin: Symphony No. 3 (arr. Rivera) - Anthony Rivera, conductor
Toru Takemitsu: Concerto de Chambre - Jonathan Caldwell, conductor
Henri Tomasi: “Good Friday Procession” from Liturgical Fanfares - Michael Votta, conductor
Quinn Dizon: Dark Nebula - Michael Votta, conductor
Paul Hindemith: Paraphrase of Beethoven’s Geschwindmarsch - Brian Coffill, conductor
Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story - Michael Votta, conductor
Saturday, November 10, 2018
“Immigrants and Memorials”
Paul Hindemith: Kammermusik Nr. 1 (1922)
Steven Stucky: Funeral Music for Queen Mary (after Henry Purcell) - Luci Disano, conducotr
Xi Wang: Winter Blossom (in memoriam Steven Stucky, 2017)
Donal Michalsky: Fanfare after 17th Century Dances* - Joseph Scott, conductor
Ingolf Dahl: Saxophone Concerto (1949) - Tim Powell, saxophone
Sergei Prokofiev: March, Op. 99 (performed without conductor)
Friday, October 5, 2018
“Immigrants”
Paul Hindemith: Konzertmusik, Op. 41 (1926)
Walther Lampe: Serenade, Op. 7
Paul Hindemith: Septet (1948) - David Wacyk, conductor
Jan Meyerowitz: Three Comments on War (1953)
Kevin Puts: Millennium Canons - 9
Saturday, May 6, 2018
Francis Poulenc: Aubade
Zhou Long: Concerto for Wind Symphony: Ancient Echoes
Thursday, April 7, 2018
Igor Stravinsky: Octet (1923)
Paul Hindemith: Symphony in Bb – Joseph Scott, conductor
Saturday, March 3, 2018
Alban Berg: Chamber Concerto
Willem van Otterloo: Serenade for Brass, Harp, Celesta and Percussion
Christian LIndberg: Concerto for Winds and Percussion
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony Op. 9
Joel Puckett: that secret from the river (2017)
Joachim Raff: Sinfonietta - Joseph Scott, conductor
Arturo Márquez: Danzon No. 2 (arr. Nickel)
Friday, November 10, 2017 – 8:00pm
Osvaldo Lacerdo: Dobrado, Ponto y Maracatu
Kevin McKee: Centennial Horizons - Chris Gekker, trumpet
Joseph Schwantner: From a Dark Millennium - Brian Coffill, conductor
George Antheil: Concerto for Chamber Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein: Profanation (arr. Bencriscutto)
Saturday, October 21, 2017
W.A. Mozart: Serenade in Bb, K. 361 (“Gran Partita”)
Jan Sibelius: Canzonetta (arr. Igor Stravinsky)
Osvaldo Lacerda: Trilogia
Steve Reich: Clapping Music
Astor Piazzolla: Libertango (arr. for double wind quintet by Jeff Scott)
Friday, October 6, 2017
Aaron Jay Kernis: For Love of the Mountains
Magnus Lindberg: Souvenir
Adam Schoenberg: American Symphony
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Robert Gibson: The Sound of Light
Lukas Foss: Oboe Concerto - Mark Hill, oboe
Joseph Schwantner: Luminosity (Concerto for Wind Orchestra)
Karel Husa: Music for Prague 1968
Friday, April 7, 2017
Beethoven: Octet / Rondino
Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques - Rita Sloan, piano
Henry Wixon: Double Quintet (2015, world premiere)
Robert Kurka: Suite from “The Good Soldier Schweik” - Brian Coffill, conductor
Friday, March 3, 2017
“Cheating, Lying…Paraphrasing”
A Marriage of Figaros (Mozart: Figaro excerpts and Jonathan Dove: Figures in the Garden)
1. Herr Mozart: Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro"
2. Mr. Dove: Dancing in the Dark
3. Herr Mozart: Deh vieni, non tadar
4. Mr. Dove: Susanna in the Rain; A Conversation; Barbarina Alone
5. Herr Mozart: Act IV, finale (excerpt)
6. Mr. Dove: The Countess Interrupts a Quarrel; Voices in the Garden; Nocturne
David Lang:Cheating, Lying, Stealing (2011)
Edgard Varese: Integrales - David Wacyk, conductor
Frank Zappa: Yellow Sharks and a Drowning Witch
1. The Ghost of Varese (Varese: Octandre 1)
2. The Dogbreath Variations / Uncle Meat
3. Envelopes
4. The Ghost of Varese Returns (Varese: Octandre III)
5. G-spot Tornado