Friday, September 09, 2022 - 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Paul Creative Arts Center Johnson Theatre
On Friday, September 9, 2022 at
8PM, Director of Bands, Dr. Andrew Boysen Jr., will lead the Velvet Pastures
Wind Ensemble in a concert of Grand Wind Music. The program will begin in 1781
with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s monumental Serenade No. 10 for winds ‘Gran
Partita’. The evening will continue two hundred years later with Grand
Pianola Music, composed in 1981 by New Hampshire-raised composer, John
Adams. Lecturer of music, Dr. Mathilde Handelsman, and Edward Cho will be the
piano soloists in the Adams work. Professor of Musicology, and Department
Chair, Rob Haskins, will provide an accompanying lecture on the development of
wind music.
The Velvet Pastures Wind Ensemble is made up of UNH Music
alumni and other seacoast area professional musicians. It is dedicated to
performing serious wind music at the highest level. The ensemble was founded
during the pandemic at a nearby elk farm in Lee, NH from where it draws its
name. The first meeting was an open-air reading session dedicated to
Stravinsky’s Octet. This session led to an all-Stravinsky debut concert
at the University of New Hampshire in the Fall of 2021.
