UM School of Music: Wind Orchestra - The Sound of Light February 19, 2010

Featuring the world premiere of The Sound of Light, a new work by faculty composer and School of Music director Robert Gibson, followed by Kazimierz Machala’s Concerto for Horn, Winds and Percussion with guest soloist and faculty artist Greg Miller of Empire Brass.

Also, two works steeped in ceremony and ritual — Igor Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920 version) and Oliver Messiaen’s Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (‘And I await the resurrection of the dead’).

Official Website: http://claricesmithcenter.umd.edu/2009/c/performances/performance?rowid=9204