let tHEiR voice be heard serves as the unifying theme of the 2018-2019 season for the Murray State Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra. As in years past, both groups will open their seasons at the annual Fall Fanfare Concert in Lovett Auditorium. Each ensemble takes a different path as we showcase female composers, female performers, our own faculty, African-American composers both new and old, as well as composers across the globe. Join us are Our New Day Begins.

Let tHEiR voice be heard: If you look closely at the capital letters of their you will see the word HER. Our concert opens with Carolin Bremer’s exciting Early Light, echoing our own National Anthem; we segue immediately into a brand-new arrangement of the anthem by world class composer Eric Whitacre as part of the consortium premier.
We continue the program with a work from 1978 by Ida Gotovsky, Poem de Fue; this multi-movement work from 1978 serves as one of the earlier works for winds by a female composer. Susan LeBarr is known for her wonderful voice in choral music and with this contribution by Eric Wilson, Director of Bands at Baylor University, we celebrate her voice in the wind ensemble medium.
Highlighting one of the few symphonies written by a female composer, Libby Larsen’s Short Symphony is a quirky four movement symphony that runs a total time of about fifteen minutes. It celebrates, in addition to tonal and classical music, jazz idioms, and dance movements.
Anyone affiliated with Murray State University in the last thirty plus years knows of the great contribution of Professor Ray Conklin. Professor Conklin’s charisma in his teaching, his advocacy for his students, and selfless human characterizes are unmatched across the continent. We celebrate his legacy with a movement from Johannes Brahms’s German Requiem, transcribed by Barbara Buehlman, Blessed Are They.
Blessed are they thay mourn; for they shall be comforted. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. They that go forth and weep,
​ bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing their sheaves with them.
We close the program looking back and looking forward. Professor Dennis Johnson was a commissioning member of Omar Thomas’ Of Our New Day Begun; a work that honors the nine victims who lost their lives on June 17, 2015 at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The work celebrates the great hymn, Lift Every Voice and Sing. We celebrate this great contribution to our repertoire by our dear friend and mentor, Professor Dennis Johnson, and celebrate our new beginnings here at Murray State.
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let tHEiR voice be heard
arr. Whitacre, Eric | Star Spangled Banner
Bremer, Carolin | Early Light
Gotovsky, Ida | Poem de Fue
Lebarr, Susan arr. Wilson | Grace before Sleep
Larsen, Libby | Short Symphony
Brahms, arr. Barbara Buehlman | Blessed are They
Thomas, Omar | Of Our New Day Begun

toned down
Grainger, Percy | Duke of Marlborough Fanfare
Spittal, Robert | Consort for Ten Winds
Björk | Overture to Dancer in the Dark
Thomas, Omar | Emma Catherine
Gounod, Charles | Petite Symphony

BOOM BOX – Quad State Honor Band Weekend
Bryant, Steven | Ecstatic Waters
Grant Still, William | Summerland
Clinicians:
Band 1 – Dr. Leah McGray, Director of Instrumental Music, State University of New York
Band 2 – Dr. Armand Hall, Associate Director of Bands, University of Memphis
Band 3 – Dr. Brett Richardson, Director of Bands, University of the Incarnate Word
Band 4 – Ms. Pam Towry-Church, Director of Bands, Cimarron High School

piano et voix a troix:
featuring faculty soloists Dr. Maribeth Crawford, soprano; and Dr. Lucia Unrau, piano
Perrine, Aaron | NEW WORK
Mackey, John | Songs for the End of the World
Hahn, Reynaldo | Le Bal de Beatrice de Este

Surround Sound; guest artist SSG Sonia Candelaria, United States Army Pershing’s Own, flute
arr. T. Blanco, Gabrielli, Giovanni | Sonata XX
Salfelder, Katherine | Cathedrals
Puckett, Joel | Shadow of Sirius
Bryant, Steven | Ecstatic Waters
Etezady, Roshanne | Shoutout

ART orchestra | opera | ballet
Featuring Dr. Sue-Jean Park, violin & Ms. Sunhaeng Lee
Dukas, Paul | Fanfare la Peri
Copland, Aaron | John Henry
Brahms, Johannes | Mvt. 2, from Double Concerto
Bizet, George | Carmen Suite No. 1
Bizet, George | Carment Suite No. 2

Invitation to the Unknown
Featuring Dr. Tana Field
Mozart, W.A. | "E amore un ladroncello" from "Cosi fan tutte"
Jolivet, Andre | Les amants magnifiques
Lully, Jean Baptiste | The Ballet Suite