BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro Union High School Music Department presents a fall concert on Wednesday, Nov. 18 , at 7 p.m. in the BUHS auditorium. There is no admission charge and all are welcome.
The jazz workshop opens the concert, directed by Eugene Uman and Robert Freeberg. They will perform three tunes, including Uman's Niko's Dream, Wes Montgomery's Road Song, and Horace Silver's Sister Sadie.
Madrigals will take the stage second, beginning their set with Weep Oh Mine Eyes by John Bennett. They will then perform A Harvester's Song by John Berger under the direction of Madrigal member Elijah Taylor. The group will call Uman back to the stage to accompany their performance of Moonglow by Will Hudson & Irving Mills with scat solos by several soloists. The Madrigals will finish their set with a Moses Hogan arrangement of My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord.
The jazz band follows with three compositions, starting with Greg Yasinitsky's arrangement of Charlie Parker's bebop classic Ornithology. Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn's Come Fly With Me features vocalist Gabbi Walton. The final piece on the jazz band's set is Erik Morales' Crescent River Ramble.
The chorus performs next, starting with George and Ira Gershwin's I Got Rhythm, continuing with British Renaissance lutenist and poet John Dowland's Awake Sweet Love; Randall Thompson's Alleluia, composed for the opening of the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Mass.; and another Moses Hogan setting, this one of the spiritual Wade in the Water.
The concert band closes the concert with three selections: Daniel Kallman's The Jig Is Up, which combines the sound of traditional Irish dance music with African percussion and rhythms; Terpsichorean Dances, a setting of three French Renaissance dance pieces collected by Michael Praetorius and set for band by Australian composer Jodie Blackshaw; and Henry Fillmore's Lassus Trombone, featuring the four members of the band's trombone section.
Patty Meyer directs the choral ensembles. Stephen Rice directs the concert and jazz bands. For more information, call 802-451-3511.