Yale and Harvard “Battle of the Big Bands” at Sculler’s, Boston MA. The Yale Jazz Ensemble Big Band (Wayne Escoffery, Music Director) and the Harvard Jazz Band (Yosveny Terry, Music Director).

Harvard’s Jazz Band has performed worldwide, including 2017 performances in Cuba, and past concerts have included tributes to Herbie Hancock, Benny Golson, and many other important jazz artists. Performers in these concerts have included Terri Lyne Carrington, Lionel Loueke, Harold Mabern, George Coleman, Don Braden, and more.

The Yale Jazz Ensemble, a seventeen-piece big band, performs a wide variety of music, from pieces from Yale’s Benny Goodman archive to the newest, most progressive jazz compositions. The Ensemble has performed in the United States and internationally and has played with or opened for the Mingus Big Band, the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, the Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band, the World Saxophone Quartet, Jane Ira Bloom, Jimmy Owens, and Branford Marsalis.

The Yale Concert Band, Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director, presents an eclectic and exciting program:

• Igor Stravinsky’s 1910 debut of “The Firebird” launched him to the forefront of contemporary composers. The ballet, about a beautiful bird-woman who is captured by and later rescues a young prince, is widely praised for its symbiosis between décor, choreography, and music.

• “Cave of the Winds” by Russell Peck. This unique and mysterious theater piece is played from memory in the dark. The premise is that the members of the band are blind and can communicate only through touch and sound.

• “A Mother of A Revolution!” by Omar Thomas is a celebration of the bravery of trans women, and in particular, Marsha ‘Pay It No Mind’ Johnson, who is credited with being one of the instigators of the famous Stonewall uprising of June 28,1969 – one of the pivotal events of the LGBTQ liberation movement of the 20th century.

• A Leonard Bernstein triptych: “Almighty Father (Chorale from Mass), “Make Our Garden Grow” (from Candide), “Slava!”

• “Luminance” by Shuying Li explores the interplay between light and darkness, seeking to evoke a sense of radiance and brilliance through its music.

The Yale Concert Band, Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director, presents an eclectic and exciting program:

• Igor Stravinsky’s 1910 debut of “The Firebird” launched him to the forefront of contemporary composers. The ballet, about a beautiful bird-woman who is captured by and later rescues a young prince, is widely praised for its symbiosis between décor, choreography, and music.

• “Cave of the Winds” by Russell Peck. This unique and mysterious theater piece is played from memory in the dark. The premise is that the members of the band are blind and can communicate only through touch and sound.

• “A Mother of A Revolution!” by Omar Thomas is a celebration of the bravery of trans women, and in particular, Marsha ‘Pay It No Mind’ Johnson, who is credited with being one of the instigators of the famous Stonewall uprising of June 28,1969 – one of the pivotal events of the LGBTQ liberation movement of the 20th century.

• A Leonard Bernstein triptych: “Almighty Father (Chorale from Mass), “Make Our Garden Grow” (from Candide), “Slava!”

• “Luminance” by Shuying Li explores the interplay between light and darkness, seeking to evoke a sense of radiance and brilliance through its music.

The Yale Concert Band, Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director, presents an eclectic and exciting program:

• Igor Stravinsky’s 1910 debut of “The Firebird” launched him to the forefront of contemporary composers. The ballet, about a beautiful bird-woman who is captured by and later rescues a young prince, is widely praised for its symbiosis between décor, choreography, and music.

• “Cave of the Winds” by Russell Peck. This unique and mysterious theater piece is played from memory in the dark. The premise is that the members of the band are blind and can communicate only through touch and sound.

• “A Mother of A Revolution!” by Omar Thomas is a celebration of the bravery of trans women, and in particular, Marsha ‘Pay It No Mind’ Johnson, who is credited with being one of the instigators of the famous Stonewall uprising of June 28,1969 – one of the pivotal events of the LGBTQ liberation movement of the 20th century.

• A Leonard Bernstein triptych: “Almighty Father (Chorale from Mass), “Make Our Garden Grow” (from Candide), “Slava!”

• “Luminance” by Shuying Li explores the interplay between light and darkness, seeking to evoke a sense of radiance and brilliance through its music.

The Yale Concert Band, Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director, presents an eclectic and exciting program:

• Igor Stravinsky’s 1910 debut of “The Firebird” launched him to the forefront of contemporary composers. The ballet, about a beautiful bird-woman who is captured by and later rescues a young prince, is widely praised for its symbiosis between décor, choreography, and music.

• “Cave of the Winds” by Russell Peck. This unique and mysterious theater piece is played from memory in the dark. The premise is that the members of the band are blind and can communicate only through touch and sound.

• “A Mother of A Revolution!” by Omar Thomas is a celebration of the bravery of trans women, and in particular, Marsha ‘Pay It No Mind’ Johnson, who is credited with being one of the instigators of the famous Stonewall uprising of June 28,1969 – one of the pivotal events of the LGBTQ liberation movement of the 20th century.

• A Leonard Bernstein triptych: “Almighty Father (Chorale from Mass), “Make Our Garden Grow” (from Candide), “Slava!”

• “Luminance” by Shuying Li explores the interplay between light and darkness, seeking to evoke a sense of radiance and brilliance through its music.