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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Today: Free music on a windy Saturday
Today, a typical Texas wind storm is bringing whipping winds to Austin — appropriate perhaps for the gathering of wind ensembles at UT’s Butler School of Music, part of the College Band Directors National Association conference.
Mostly an affair for insiders, there is a line-up of free concerts that are open to the public.
Composers John Adams and John Corigliano, among others, are in town to hear premieres of their work.
Today, three free concerts — mostly of new and contemporary works — fill the bill. And if you can’t be there in person, log in to the live webcasts. All times are Central Standard Time.
At 2:30 p.m. it’s a small concert band playing, among other selections, “Farewell to Gray” by Austin’s Donald Grantham and “Masque” by 40-year-old British composer Kenneth Hesketh.
At 4 p.m. it’s a wind ensemble playing a wide selection from Bach to “Popcopy” a new piece by Waco-based Scott McAllister, a riff on pop culture that’s snatches snippets of sound from “Saturday Night Live” to “Seinfeld.”
At 8 p.m. more wind ensemble brings “Asphalt Cocktail” by Austin-based John Mackey and the premiere of William Bolcom’s First Symphony for Band.
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