UMD Wind Orchestra: Apotheosis November 4, 2011

UMWO celebrates composer Karel Husa's 90th birthday with a program that expresses the longing for apotheosis, the state of divine grace and perfection.

With Husa's Apotheosis of This Earth, which he calls a "manifesto" against pollution and destruction, as its focal point, the program also includes three other works that speak to the longing for apotheosis: Toru Takemitsu's Signals from Heaven, Reynaldo Hahn's Le Bal de Beatrice d'Este, Igor Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments and J.S. Bach's Mein Jesu, was für Seelenweh, BWV 487.