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by a range of ensembles. The department sponsors an annual
artist-in-residence program, bringing internationally renowned
artists for performances and lectures. The department also
presents a free weekly noon-concert series, which features
visiting artists, department ensembles, and student performers in
an informal setting.
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UC Davis Concert Band Pete Nowlen, director
and UC Davis lecturer in music
Campus Band
Dr. Garrett Rigsby, conductor
USAF Band of the Golden West
Major Joseph Hansen, commander and conductor
This concert program is being presented free to the public in
memory of the longtime clarinetist and dedicated alumnus Bill
Hollingshead, who passed away in 2021.
Written as a powerful sequel to Moscow, 1941, this
work changes the narrative, where the theme
from Moscow now represents the aggressor, and the
heroic people of Ukraine are represented by the Ukrainian
National Anthem and the powerful song Prayer for Ukraine.
UC Davis Concert Band
Pete Nowlen, conductor
William Grant
Still:Africa, Land of Superstition from the
Africa Suite
FIRST PERFORMANCE of this work transcribed for Concert Band
William Grant Still (who never went to Africa) said the
Africa Suite was “designed as an American Negro’s wholly fanciful
concept of the cradle of his Race, formed on the folklore of
generations.” The work is the first of a trilogy focused on
the subject of the African American experience.
Julie
Giroux:Evening Snow at Kambara from Symphony
No. 4 (“Bookmarks from Japan”)
Based on the bookmark “Evening Snow at Kambara” by Hiroshige Ando
which is from the series The 53 Stations of the Tokaido
Highway.
David
Maslanka:Give Us This Day (Short Symphony for
Wind Ensemble)
The words “Give us this day” are, of course, from the Lord’s
Prayer, but the inspiration for this music is Buddhist. I have
recently read a book by the Vietnamese Bhuddist monk Thich Nhat
Hahn (pronounced “Tick Nat Hahn”) entitled For a Future to
be Possible. His premise is that a future for the planet is only
possible if individuals become deeply mindful of themselves,
deeply connected to who they really are. While this is not a new
idea, and something that is an ongoing struggle for everyone, in
my estimation it is the issue for world peace. For me, writing
music, and working with people to perform music, are two of those
points of deep mindfulness.
Noda Lobby and Front Courtyard, Ann E. Pitzer Center
Note: This concert takes place in the Noda Family Lobby
and also the front outdoor courtyard at the Ann E. Pitzer Center.
It will not be available to view via livestream or on the web.
Faculty Coordinator:Kurt
Rohde, viola and UC Davis Professor of Music
This concert is a collaboration of graduate students in music
composition and creative writing, with
artist-in-residence Zachary
James Watkins. Watkins has been working with the
creative students in a series of workshops, with additional
guidance by music department faculty Kurt Rohde
and Sam Nichols.
The work has been developing organically using words and
electronic media in addition to the musicians.
“See / Hear / Say” is sponsored by the UC Davis Humanities
Institute’s “HumArts” Research Clusters, which provides a space
for research and collaboration which is not easily accomplished
in a single department or program.
Participants
Graduate Student Ensemble Musicians
Orkun Akyol
Dean Kervin Boursiquot
Paul Engle
Trey Makler
Joseph D. Peterson
Adam Strawbridge
Colin Minigan
Leanny Muñoz
Devin Christopher Romines
Joseph Vasinda
Emily Joy Sullivan
Graduate Writers from the Creative Writing
Program
Amanda Hawkins
Claudia Ross
Undergraduate Participant from Theatre & Dance
Tessa Fray
Free
Campus community (students, staff, or faculty) must show
a cleared Daily Symptom
Survey at the door.
Others [age 12 and older] must show proof of COVID
vaccination or a negative COVID test result at the door.
Please join us to celebrate this year’s “Arts & Humanities 2022
Graduate Exhibition” on view June 2–19 at the Manetti
Shrem Museum. UC Davis graduate students in Art and Art
History, Creative Writing, Design, Mathematics, Music,
Performance Studies, and Political Science present their work
in this final multidisciplinary exhibition.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
