BRUNSWICK — The Bowdoin College Concert Band will be performing “Celebrations — Part II: 25 Years of the Bowdoin College Concert Band” this Sunday, April 14, at 2 p.m. in Studzinski Hall.
The concert will be highlighted by the premieres of three new compositions for wind band by composers with Bowdoin connections.
Featured will be “Celebration Overture” by Bowdoin Professor Emeritus Elliott Schwartz; “9.11 Memorial” by Bowdoin alumni Richard Francis ’92; and “…our last conversation was in Portuguese,” by Bowdoin Associate Professor of Music Vineet Shende.
“… our last conversation was in Portuguese” is a pieced inspired by the life of 6-year-old Emily Parker, one of the Newtown, Conn., shooting victims, and her father’s recollections of his final moments with Emily before she went to school that tragic day in December 2012, a news release said.
Other pieces on the program include: “An Original Suite” by Gordon Jacob; “Fantasia in G Major” by Johann Sebastian Bach; “Gallimaufry” by British composer Guy Woolfenden; “March of the Belgian Paratroopers” by Pierre Leemans; and, “Danzas Cubanas” by Robert Sheldon.
Admission is free, and is the concert is open to the public.
For more information, call John Morneau at 725-3169 or email jmorneau@bowdoin.edu.
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