Current Concert Season

Yale Concert Band, Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Featuring “High Water Rising,” (Sally Lamb McCune), “Of Our New Day Begun” (Omar Thomas), “Roma” (Valerie Coleman), “Firefy” (Ryan George), “Resonances I” (Ron Nelson), “Power and Light” (Thomas C. Duffy).

Yale Concert Band, Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. “The Planets” by Gustav Holst (trans. Christian Janssen), featuring new graphic projections by Camilla Tassi ’22 and John Horzen ’24 – students at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University – and original visual art by Mikayla Johnson Yale College ‘24. With special guest The Elm City Girls’ Choir, Rebecca Rosenbaum, Music Director.
Each planet in Holst’s most popular work is named after a Roman god, and each movement – from ‘Mars: The Bringer of War’ to ‘Neptune: The Mystic’ – is imbued with an aspect of the human experience. In this exciting new multimedia collaboration between the Yale Concert Band and projection designers at the David Geffen School of Drama, each movement is paired with a visual exploration of the divine beings they were named for, creating a concert experience that humbly asks the question: what does it mean to be human?

Yale Concert Band, Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Featuring works by Duffy, composer and Director of Yale University Bands since 1982. George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” and Duffy’s “A Parisian in America,” “Frozen Flames March,” “Crystals,” “Century Shouts,” “To the Horizon,” “And Flights of Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest,” and Duffy’s transcription of Alan Hovhaness’ “Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints,” Alex Wynn TD ‘22, marimba.

Yale Concert Band Special Concert, Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Works by Duffy, composer and Director of Yale University Bands since 1982, to celebrate his 40th year at Yale University. Feat. “Butterflies and Bees!,” “Power and Light,” “A+,” “Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel,” “And Flights of Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest,” and a special showing of the Yale Concert Band’s 1993 performance of “Whispers of the Patriots,” Walter Cronkite, narrator.
In his 40 years at Yale, Duffy has combined his talents as a conductor and composer to weave the Yale Bands into the fabric of the New Haven Public Schools; regional, state, and national music education programs and conferences; and the world, through 19 international tours with the Yale Bands. The Grove Dictionary of American Music cites Duffy’s music: “His compositions have introduced a generation of school musicians to aleatory; the integration of spoken/sung words and ‘body rhythms’ with instrumental performance; and the pairing of music with political, social, historical, and scientific themes.”