UW-Green Bay band concert features connections to campus Common Theme
GREEN BAY — The premiere of a new composition by University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Prof. Cheryl Grosso will be a highlight at the upcoming UW-Green Bay band concert this Saturday, March 7.
The concert takes place at 7:30 p.m. in the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts.
Grosso’s “HUM BOM!”, based on Allen Ginsberg’s poem of the same title, represents the professor’s first composition for a large wind band. Grosso is a specialist in percussion and hand drumming.
The song will be performed by the UW-Green Bay Wind Symphony under the direction of Prof. Kevin Collins.
The poem, included in Grosso’s work and used with permission of the Ginsberg Foundation, will be narrated by UW-Green Bay Music Prof. Adam Gaines.
Grosso’s composition is yet another contribution to the ongoing dialogue surrounding the campus wide Common Theme, “Waging War, Waging Peace.”
UW-Green Bay’s Common Theme is a yearlong program designed to engage the campus and community in the ideals of a liberal arts education and the UW-Green Bay interdisciplinary mission. It is designed to encourage faculty, staff, students, and community members to focus on a general theme from multiple perspectives and have a shared experience with open discussion and critical thinking.
The Wind Ensemble will also perform two rock-influenced works, “Chaos Theory,” a concerto for electric guitar and wind ensemble by James Bonney, and “Undertow” by John Mackey.
Collins says “Chaos Theory” is a special blend of orchestrated rock music with a full-out rocking electric guitar solo. The guitar soloist for the concerto will be the director of the UW-Green Bay “Total Guitarist” summer camp, Nick Utrie.
The UW-Green Bay Symphonic Band will also make a contribution to the campus Common Theme, performing a work inspired by legendary civil rights activist Rosa Parks, “A Movement for Rosa” by Mark Camphouse.
Advance tickets for the concert are $7 for adults and $5 for students and seniors. Tickets are available online at www.uwgb.edu/tickets, by calling University Ticketing Services at (800) 325-8587 or by e-mailing tickets@uwgb.edu.
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