UNH Wind Symphony and UNH Concert Band

Wed 28 Apr, 8 pm. 698 Beech Street, Manchester, 03104. Adam Solender, Executive Director, 603-627-7679, office@jewishnh.rog. Jewish Federation of New Hampshire - [events]

At Johnson Theatre, Paul Creative Arts Center, UNH Durham. Andrew Boysen conducts the Wind Symphony and Casey Goodwin conducts the Concert Band in this concert that premieres compositions by two UNH alumni composers and an arrangement written by a master’s student.

Timothy Miles (BM 2001, MA 2007), director of bands at Exeter (NH) High School, composed if this is a man, inspired by Primo Levi’s book about his year in Auschwitz. Thomas Bourgault (BM 2004, MA 2006), director of bands at Norwich (CT) Free Academy, composed The Island of Obsession, a piece that explores themes of obsession and atonement and incorporates the Jewish prayer melody “Kol Nidre.” Other works on the program include Jack Stamp’s Scenes from Terezin, as well as an arrangement by Becky Noyes. Becky (BA 2009, MAT 2010X) is arranging several movements of Lawrence Siegel’s Kaddish for the Wind Symphony with soloist David Ripley. FREE and open to the public. Peggy Vagts (Music), peggy.vagts@unh.edu; David Ripley (Music), david.ripley@unh.edu; and Jeffry Diefendorf (History), jeffryd@hypatia.unh.edu, are the organizers of Echoes of the Holocaust. Prof. Diefendorf holds the Pamela Shulman Professorship of European and Holocaust Studies at UNH and works to encourage faculty teaching and scholarship on the Holocaust. The concerts are supported by the Department of Music, the UNH Endowed Fund for Holocaust Education, and a grant from the UNH Parents Association