Illinois Wind Symphony Calendar and Repertoire 2021-2022

All performances take place in the Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, unless otherwise noted.

Fall 2021

Sunday,  October 3, 3:00 pm

Karel Husa, Concerto for Wind Ensemble
Viet Cuong, Moth
Carlos Simon, Amen!
Paul Hindemith, March from Symphonic Metamorphosis
Warren Benson, The Leaves are Falling
Morton Gould, Ballad for Band
 

Friday, October 8, 7:30 pm

Illinois Bands Homecoming Concert, shared with Wind Orchestra and the Marching Illini

Carlos Simon, Amen!
Sousa, The University of Illinois March

Friday, November 5 , 7:30 pm 

Percy Grainger, Duke of Marlborough Fanfare
Charles Ives, The Alcotts
Ingolf Dahl, Sinfonietta
Shuying Li, The Last Hivemind
Paul Hindemith, Symphony in B-flat
 

Friday, December 3, 7:30 pm (shared concert with Libertyville High School Wind Ensemble)

Oscar Navarro, Downey Overture
Ottorino Respighi, The Pines of Rome

Guest Artists: Libertyville H.S. Wind Ensemble
Adam Gohr, conductor

John Philips Sousa, The White Rose
Yasuhide Ito, Gloriosa

spring 2022

ABA Program

Friday, February 25, 7:30 pm (Preview—Krannert Center for the Performing Arts)
Thursday, March 3, 8:00 pm—American Bandmasters Association, Indianapolis, Indiana

Calixa Lavallée, O Canada
John Stafford Smith, The Star-Spangled Banner
Germaine Tailleferre, Ouverture, arranged by John P. Paynter
Gilda Lyons, la flor más linda
Leonard Bernstein, Profanation from Jeremiah, Symphony No. 1, arranged by Frank Bencriscutto 
Omar Thomas, arranger, Shenandoah (traditional)
Edwin Franko Goldman, Illinois March
Florent Schmitt, Dionysiaques
John Philip Sousa, The University of Illinois March

Thursday, March 31, 7:30pm, Harding 141

Chamber Recital—Graduate Conductors

Alan Hovhaness, Tower Music—Michelle Bell, conductor
Viet Cuong, Bull’s Eye—Nicholas Carlson, conductor
Robert Kurka, The Good Soldier Schweik—Jeremy Sison, conductor
Richard Strauss, Serenade in E-flat Major, Op. 7—Isaac Brinberg, conductor

Sunday, May 1, 3:00pm—with Wind Orchestra

T.B.D.
Gustav Holst, First Suite in Eb
David Maslanka, Symphony No. 4
Encore: Morten Lauridsen, O Magnum Mysterium

Friday, May 6, SuperState Concert Band Festival—evening performance

David Maslanka, Symphony No. 4