Curtain call
UPEI Wind Symphony set for final performance of year
The UPEI Wind Symphony presents its final performance of the academic year featuring a diverse set of pieces designed to showcase the colour of the modern wind band.
The concert takes place Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Park Royal United Church in Charlottetown.
Following the success of last semester’s recital at Park Royal, the wind symphony returns there for its acoustic beauty. The March 31 program will open with a fanfare, “Through the Looking Glass,” by the American composer Jess Turner. Another feature, “Summer Dances,” by Englishman Adam Gorb, is a joyful work in three short movements celebrating his favourite season. Phillip Sparke’s “Sunrise at Angel’s Gate” is a programmatic work which attempts to describe the sounds at dawn at the Grand Canyon.
The centrepiece of the programming
will be an electroacoustic piece by American Eli Fieldsteel titled “Singularity”.
This piece is inspired by the idea of technological singularity as explored by several scientific writers. The piece outlines a narrative of interaction between organic life, as represented by the acoustic instruments, and nonorganic life, represented by the electronic sound.
The recital will conclude with Australian Percy Grainger’s “Handel in the Strand,” a multilayered work based on folk songs.
This year’s wind symphony recently presented this program to a capacity audience at the Halifax Central Library’s Paul O’Regan Hall. Two graduating seniors, Aidan Tremblett (trumpet) and Daniel MacDonald (trombone), have had distinguished tenures with the wind symphony, for which this will be their final UPEI recital.
Tickets are $15 for adults and seniors and $10 for students, and may be acquired at the music department, at the admissions desk prior to the performance, or online at http:// upeiconcert14.bpt.me/.