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Yale Jazz Ensemble Big Band Celebrates the Centennial of Charles Mingus

Yale Jazz Ensemble Big Band, Wayne Escoffery, Music Director. Celebrating the centennial of the birth of bassist and composer Charles Mingus, one of the most important composers in jazz and the first African American musician to have the entire body of his work acquired by the Library or Congress.
Featuring Mingus hits “Nostalgia in Times Square,” “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat,” “Moanin’,” and more. With guests Teddy Horangic on vocals and Alaman Diadhiou on vocals and tap dance.

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Yale Concert Band - "The Planets" -- feat. new graphic projections

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.

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CANCELED - YSO Contemporary Music Festival: Yale Concert Band and Yale Glee Club

Yale Concert Band and Yale Glee Club Chamber Singers share an afternoon free concert of new music

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CANCELED - Yale Concert Band Spring Concert to feature Hindemith's "Symphonic Metamorphosis"

Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Featuring “Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber” (Paul Hindemith/arr. Keith Wilson); “Profanation, Symphony No. 2” (Leonard Bernstein); “High Water Rising” (Sally Lamb McCune); “5523 Luminet 1991 PH8” (Therese Brenet); “I Sit Alone in Martin’s Church” (Thomas C. Duffy)

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Yale Jazz Ensemble to Celebrate Legacy of Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra

Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Music by Thad Jones (Big Dipper, Ahunk Ahunk, Us), Bob Brookmeyer (Hello and Goodbye), Sonny Rollins, Duke Ellington, Herbie Hancock, and the world premiere of “Living Pictures” by Yale Jazz Ensemble trombonist Michael Gancz MY ‘21. Admission is free and no tickets are required. Public info: 203-432-4111 or www.yale.edu/yaleband.

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Yale Concert Band to feature Yale School of Music Bassoon Professor Frank Morelli

Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director
● “Guignol: Concerto for Bassoon and Small Wind Orchestra” (Stephen Gryc)
The character of Guignol was created at the beginning of the 19th century by a dentist in Lyon, France who attracted customers to his chair by presenting puppet shows. The satirical music of this piece will be performed by Frank Morelli, bassoon, and epitomizes the witty banter and frenetic action of a puppet show with the soloist playing the part of the comic hero.
● “From the Shores of the Mighty Pacific” (Herbert L. Clarke)

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