Current Season
Upcoming Events
August 27, 2018 | |||
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| 6:30pm | Yale Bands Information Meeting |
Interested in joining a Yale Band? Come to the all-Yale Bands Information Meeting! Meet the director, student president, drum major and other officers and returning band members. You’ll learn about the Yale Concert Band, Yale Jazz Ensemble, and Yale Precision Marching Band, how to join, and also have the opportunity to sign up for an audition. This year marks the Yale Bands’ Centennial (1918-2018). Please attend and find out how you can be a part of this exceptional year! |
Hendrie Hall/Adams Center (HEN), 301
165 Elm Street
New Haven, CT
06511
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October 6, 2018 | |||
| 7:30pm | Yale Family Weekend Gala Concert |
Annual Yale Family Weekend concert featuring Yale College’s three official undergraduate performing ensembles: the Yale Glee Club, Jeffrey Douma, Music Director; Yale Concert Band, Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director; and Yale Symphony Orchestra, William Boughton, Interim Conductor. |
Woolsey Hall (WOOL)
500 College Street
New Haven, CT
06511
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October 12, 2018 | |||
| 7:30pm | Yale Concert Band Centennial Season Opener. Remembering 1918: the End of WWI, the Birth of Leonard Bernstein, and the Beginning of the Yale Bands |
Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. First concert of the Yale Bands Centennial Season (1918-2018). Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein 1918-1990), Decoration Day (Charles Ives, Yale class of 1898), Yankee Division March (Oliver “Chick” Story). James Reese Europe & His Society Orchestra, Handel in the Strand (Percy Grainger), Agincourt Hymn (Daniel Bukvich). |
Woolsey Hall (WOOL)
500 College Street
New Haven, CT
06511
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October 15, 2018 | |||
| 7:30pm | Yale Jazz Ensemble Centennial Season Opener |
Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Music of George Gershwin (I Got Rhythm), Toshiko Akiyoshi (Tuning Up), Maria Schneider (Wyrgly), Billy Strayhorn (Lush Life), and featuring Funky Monkey by Yale alumnus and film score composer Brad Dechter ‘78BA/’79MM, and Hine Hine (There it Goes Again) by Matt Caspi, arranged by Yale Jazz Ensemble trombonist Michael Gancz ‘21. |
Sprague Memorial Hall (SMH)
470 College Street
New Haven, CT
06511
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November 11, 2018 | |||
| 2:00pm | Yale Concert Band Veterans Day Matinee |
Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. “Three Dance Episodes from On The Town”(Leonard Bernstein), “Twist” (Jodie Blackshaw), “Tunbridge Fair” (Walter Piston), and a collection of patriotic songs and marches to commemorate the Yale Bands Centennial and the signing of The Armistice to end World War I. |
Woolsey Hall (WOOL)
500 College Street
New Haven, CT
06511
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December 1, 2018 | |||
| 2:00pm | Side by Side: The Nutcracker Swings! Featuring the Yale Concert Band and Yale Jazz Ensemble |
Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Two settings of Tchaikovsky’s holiday classic, “The Nutcracker Suite.” The Yale Concert Band presents the classical wind band version (Mayhew L. Lake), alternated with the Yale Jazz Ensemble performing the Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn “big band” arrangement. Also featuring “Sleigh Ride” (Leroy Anderson). |
Woolsey Hall (WOOL)
500 College Street
New Haven, CT
06511
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February 15, 2019 | |||
| 7:30pm | Yale Concert Band Winter Concert |
Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. La Fiesta Mexicana (H. Owen Reed), Cave of the Winds (Russell Peck), Magic of This Dawn (Christopher Sainsbury). |
Woolsey Hall (WOOL)
500 College Street
New Haven, CT
06511
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February 25, 2019 | |||
| 7:30pm | Yale Jazz Ensemble Winter Concert |
Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Program TBA. |
Sprague Memorial Hall (SMH)
470 College Street
New Haven, CT
06511
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March 31, 2019 | |||
| 2:00pm | Stan Wheeler and Marcia Chambers Memorial Jazz Concert |
The Yale Jazz Ensemble, Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director, and the Reunion Jazz Ensemble will perform in memory of Yale Law School professor and trumpeter Stan Wheeler, who was an early member of the Yale Jazz Ensemble and performed with the group until his death in 2007. This year’s Wheeler concert will also memorialize Wheeler’s late wife, Marcia Chambers, who passed away in July 2018. |
Sterling Law Buildings (SLB ), Levinson Auditorium
127 Wall Street
New Haven, CT
06511
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April 12, 2019 | |||
| 7:30pm | Yale Concert Band Spring Concert |
Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Featuring The Rite of Spring (Igor Stravinsky/arr. Terry Vosbein), Symphony No. 1 (Frank Ticheli). |
Woolsey Hall (WOOL)
500 College Street
New Haven, CT
06511
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May 19, 2019 | |||
| 7:00pm | Yale Concert Band Twilight Concert |
Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Annual outdoor concert on the eve of Yale’s Commencement, featuring ceremonial music and Yale songs. On the Old Campus Main Stage. |
Old Campus (OLDCAMP)
344 College Street
New Haven, CT
06511
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