UBC Bands: Sky to Stone

Concert Winds, Meijun Chen, conductor
UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Cheng Xin Ip, conductor

UBC Bands honours UBC Climate Emergency Week with a powerful Concert Winds program featuring works including David Maslanka’s Mother Earth, Jodie Blackshaw’s Vulnerable Joy, and Robert Buckley’s Cascadia Suite, the performance explores themes of nature, resilience, and environmental urgency through bold, contemporary wind band repertoire. The Symphonic Wind Ensemble explores the thematic evolution from nature to architecture through a program featuring Richard Wagner’s Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral, Frank Ticheli’s Angels in the Architecture, and John Mackey’s The Frozen Cathedral, among other works that interrogate space and structure.

Program

Concert Winds

C.H. Jaeger Canada on the March
Kathaj Copley Astra
David Maslanka Mother Earth
Jodie Blackshaw Vulnerable Joy
Ryan George Firefly
Robert Buckley Cascadia Suite (Mvnts I. II. III.)

Symphonic Wind Ensemble

Dylan Fitzhenry (SWE Composer-in-Residence) The Rusted Jungle
Richard Wagner, trans. Lucien Cailliet Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral
Frank Ticheli Angels in the Architecture
John Mackey The Frozen Cathedral

This event is part of Climate Emergency Week at UBC.
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