The Glenn Korff School of Music’s Campus Bands are in concert on Sunday, May 4 at 3:30 p.m. in Westbrook Music Building Rm. 130.
Seating is limited. Overflow will be in Rm. 119 with a simulcast on the big screen. The concert is free and open to the public.
The Campus Band is the university’s largest concert band. The bands include the Donald A. Lentz Concert Band and the Jack R. Snider Concert Band.
The program includes two world premieres. The Donald A. Lentz Concert Band will perform the world premiere of Bryce Hayes’ “The 25th Annual Hee Haw Howdy Ho Hoe-Down.” Their program also includes Cait Nishimura’s “Boreal Pines,” Jacob de Haan’s “Concerto d’amore” and Omar Thomas’ “Shenandoah traditional.”
The Jack R. Snider Concert Band will perform the world premiere of Ramón Araújo’s “The Western Monarch Trail.” Their program also includes Dana Wilson’s “Odysseus and the Sirens;” John Mackey’s “This Cruel Moon;” Andrew Boysen, Jr.’s “The Vikings;” Edvard Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” arranged by Lloyd Conley; and Otto M. Schwarz’s “Dragon Fight.”
Hayes’ and Araújo’s works are from a commissioning project by UNL Campus Bands with the UNL Composition Studio. The project is led by UNL Band Teaching Assistant Trevor Frost and Associate Professor of Composition Greg Simon. They were selected from a field of entries. They are the second and third world premieres produced by this initiative.
