The Georgia Southern University Bands present the third concert of the 2023-2024 academic year in the Georgia Southern University Performing Arts Center at 7:30 pm on Monday, March 4, 2024.
Entitled The Machinery of Memory & Make Believe, this performance tinkers within the mental machinery where remembrance, reverence, and creativity function as interlocking cogs and wheels to create inventions of consciousness.
The music of Jodie Blackshaw and Robert W. Smith encourage us to remember significant historical moments, while honoring the recent passing of the latter and his contributions to wind band compositions. The performance of works by Joel Love and William Schuman draw on the significance of reverence and faith in our daily lives while the music of Malcolm Arnold and Joseph Willcox Jenkins respects the significance of those compositions in the canon of wind band literature.
Music also inspires imaginative scenarios of far off places both real and fanciful. Whether whirling down super highways at top speed in the music of Ryan George, a whimsical trip to an alternative and magical past compliments of Erika Svanoe, or the mechanical drive of marching machines and mid-century German music, there is space to experience an array of mindful journeys and make believe.
The program is as follows:
WIND SYMPHONY - Michael Thomas, conductor
- Into the Storm (Robert W. Smith)
- It is Well (Joel Love)
- Into the Sun (Jodie Blackshaw)
- Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo (Malcolm Arnold; trans. by John Paynter)
SYMPHONIC WIND ENSEMBLE - Dr. John Franklin, conductor
- American Overture for Band (Joseph Willlcox Jenkins)
- Autobahn (Ryan George) – conducted by Karly Henson, graduate student conductor
- When Jesus Wept (William Schuman) - featuring euphonium soloist Collin Morgan, trumpet soloist Nigel Olmedo, & tenor drum soloist Jonah Davis
- Steampunk Suite (Erika Svanoe)
- “Marsche” from Symphonic Metamorphosis (Paul Hindemith; trans. Keith Wilson
