Concerts
Concert Band & Wind Ensemble Performances
The April 29th, 2024 Concert performance by the Southern Arkansas University Concert Band.
Program Notes
0:00 Beginning of the video
7:13 Grand Canyon Fanfare – James Newton Howard, arr. by Paul Murtha
11:14 Galop from “Moscow , Cheremushky” – Dmitri Shostakovich, arr. by Donald Hunsberger
14:56 Cold – Katahj Copley
22:02 Second Suite in F – Gustav Holst
I. March
27:01 II. Song Without Words (I’ll Love My Love)
29:41 III. Song of the Blacksmith
31:07 IV. Fantasia on “The Dargason”
The April 25th, 2024 performance by the Southern Arkansas University Symphonic Wind Ensemble.
Program Notes
0:00 Beginning of the video
2:51 A Symphonic Celebration – Robert Sheldon
11:05 Shadow Rituals – Michael Markowski
17:45 Lonely Beach (Normandy 1944) – James Barnes
35:13 Armenian Dances, Part I – Alfred Reed
February 27th, 2024
The Southern Arkansas University Symphonic Wind Ensemble performs “The Nine”, by Randall Standridge, during a recorded rehearsal. The piece was commissioned to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine who bravely ended segregation at Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
October 30th, 2023 Fall Concert
Program Notes
0:00 Beginning of Concert
08:45 Ride – Samuel Hazo
15:37 Café 512 – Ryan George
23:21 Who Is He – Drew Leder
31:43 Variations on a Moravian Hymn – James Barnes
April 28th, 2022
A Concert performance by the Southern Arkansas University Symphonic Wind Ensemble.
Program Notes
0:00 Beginning of the video
6:06 Them Basses – G.H. Huffine
12:00 God of Our Fathers – Claude T. Smith
23:24 Chorale and Shaker Dance – John Zdechlik
36:35 Centennial Horizon – Kevin McKee
April 19th, 2022 SAU Concert Band Performance
0:00 Start of Concert
1:03 Ecstatic Fanfare – Steven Bryant
7:47 As Summer Was Just Beginning – Larry Daehn
19:19 Spirited Away – Kazuhiro Morita
March 8th, 2022 Performed by the SAU Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Concert Bands
Program Notes
0:00 Beginning of the Concert
1:53 Sounding Brass – Everett Maxwell
8:11 Concertino for Percussion & Band – Clifton Williams
20:57 American River Songs – Pierre LaPlante
36:27 Heritage of Heroes – Bass Deese
41:44 American Faces – David Holsinger
50:22 O Magnum Mysterium – Morten Lauridsen
1:00:36 Havana Nights Randall Standridge
November 2nd, 2021 Fall Wind Ensemble Concert
Program Notes
0:00 Beginning of the Concert
0:23 Ride – Samuel Hazo
6:24 The Melody Shop – Karl King
11:21 Ave Maria
17:46 Pablo! – Richard Meyer
April 21st, 2021 Concert performance by the SAU Concert Band
Program Notes
0:00 Beginning of the video
2:11 Fanfare and Flourishes – James Curnow
7:25 Of Sailors and Whales, Mvt. 1, Ishmael – Francis McBeth
11:35 Mvt. 2, Queequeg
14:37 Mvt. 3, Father Mapple
17:48, Mvt. 4 Ahab
23:41 Phantom of the Opera – Warren Barker
March 15th, 2021 Concert Performance by the SAU Concert Band & Symphonic Wind Ensemble.
Program Notes 0:00 Beginning of the Concert
7:09 John Phillip Sousa
13:24 Symphonic Dance No. 3 “Fiesta” – Clifton Williams
23:39 Trumpets in Stereo Samba – James Christensen
28:07 The Wizard of Oz Medley – James Barnes
43:06 Army of the Nile – Kenneth J. Alford
50:13 Cityscape II – David Holsinger
1:01:29 Chorale and Alleluia – Howard Hanson
1:10:08 The Rusty Bucket and Other Juke Joints – Carol Brittin Chambers
April 19th, 2021
A joint concert by the SAU Percussion Ensemble & Symphonic Wind Ensemble.
Program Notes
0:00 Beginning of the Concert
3:36 First Piece
11:13 Big Country – Béla Fleck
17:15 Metric Lips – Béla Fleck
24:28 Stubernic – Mark Ford
36:25 Sinister Minister – Béla Fleck & Victor Wooten
49:46 March
56:06 Sacred Harp – Jay Bocook
1:14:34 Godzilla Eats Las Vegas! – Eric Whitacre
October 27th 2020 A concert performance by SAU Concert Band and Symphonic Wind Ensemble.
Program Notes
0:00 Beginning of the video
2:05 The Fairest of the Fair – John Philip Sousa
8:17 American Elegy – Frank Ticheli
20:20 Galop – Dmitri Shostakovich
24:42 America, the Beautiful – Carmen Dragon
39:53 – Toccata Marziale – Ralph Vaughan Williams
46:59 Whatsoever Things – Mark Camphouse
1:05:41 Divine Comedy no. 4, Paradiso – Robert W. Smith
1:13:24 Esprit de Corps – Robert Jager
