ULM Wind Ensemble

3803 Desiard St.,Monroe LA 71209

25 February, 2021

Description

On Thursday evening, February 25, the ULM Wind Ensemble will present their first concert of the semester. The concert will begin at 7:30 pm. On Thursday evening, February 25, the ULM Wind Ensemble will present their first concert of the semester. The concert will begin at 7:30 pm in Brown Theater on the ULM campus. Seating in Brown will be limited to no more than 75 people and you must have a ticket to be admitted. Free tickets are available on Eventbrite. The concert will be livestreamed on the VAPA Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ulm+school+of+visual+and+performing+arts. Conductors for this performance include Derle R. Long and Sean O’Pry. The repertoire selected for this performance include Malcolm Arnold’s Sarabande and Polka, A Movement for Rosa by Mark Camphouse, An American Elegy by Monroe-born Frank Ticheli, Johan De Meij’s Aquarium, Wedding Dance by , The performance will conclude with a special edition of John Philip Sousa’s The White Rose March. A Movement for Rosa is performed as a tribute to Black History Month. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Mrs. Parks earned the title “Mother to a Movement” for her act of personal courage, sparking the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s. The works final measures serve an ominous reminder of racism's lingering presence in modern American society. An American Elegy is, above all, an expression of hope. It was composed in memory of those who lost their lives at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, and to honor the survivors. It is offered as a tribute to their great strength and courage in the face of a terrible tragedy. I hope the work can also serve as one reminder of how fragile and precious life is and how intimately connected we all are as human beings. The ULM Wind Ensemble performs An American Elegy as a tribute to those who lost their lives in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021. For more information on this performance, contact the ULM School of Visual and Performing Arts at 318-342-3811, ulm.edu/vapa, or the VAPA Facbook page https://www.facebook.com/ulmvapa.