Wind Ensemble presents ‘Sea Songs’ March 2

calendar icon16 Feb 2024    

Lincoln, Neb.—The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Wind Ensemble invites audiences for a journey above and below the waves in a program titled “Sea Songs” on Saturday, March 2 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 program begins with “Sea Songs” by Thomas Knox.

“To begin, a celebration of one of the most beloved of the windlass and capstan chanteys with allusions to Debussy. This unlikely feat was achieved by chief composer and arranger for the United States Marine Band Thomas Knox in the aptly titled ‘Sea Songs,’” said Carolyn Barber, Ron and Carol Cope Professor of Music, Director of Bands and director of the Wind Ensemble.

The program also includes world premieres from two Glenn Korff School of Music student composers.

“Next, the world premiere of UNL undergraduate student composer Charlie Drew Johnson’s ‘Beneath Ice and Snow,’ a work inspired by the four zones of the Arctic Ocean (Epipelagic, Mesopelagic, Bathypelagic, Abyssopelagic),” Barber said. “Another world premiere follows. UNL graduate student composer Trevor Frost’s ‘Symphony No. 1: Cape Cod’ captures the essence of the peninsula’s iconic lighthouses, whales, and the engineering achievement that is the Cape Cod Canal.”

The program concludes with W. Francis McBeth’s “Of Sailors and Whales,” which depicts the central characters of Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.”