The Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the Kenyon Jazz Ensemble present a shared Family Weekend Concert on Saturday, October 17 at 2:00 p.m. in Rosse Hall, Under the direction of Professor of Music Dane Heuchemer, the Symphonic Wind Ensemble will perform works by Howard Hanson, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Morten Lauridsen. The program highlights two works of “program music,” compositions built upon non-musical inspirations: the “Pines of the Appian Way” from Ottorino Respighi’s Pines of Rome and Eric Whitacre’s Ghost Train.
The Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Professor of Music Ted Buehrer, will play music celebrating the centennial of trumpeter Miles Davis' birth. In addition to music by Davis, the ensemble will perform music by Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, two highly acclaimed jazz saxophonists whose careers are intertwined with Davis.