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Little Women
Fugitive Songs
Program information coming soon!
FACS: Sandra Thompson
The Music in My Life: The Last Chapter
Sandra Thompson
7:30 p.m., March 26, 2023
UCO Jazz Lab
Featuring
Sandra Thompson, vocalist
Eric Grigg, piano
Dedicated to my family, my students old and new, and my colleagues here at UCO.
Special thanks to the CFAD dean’s office for sponsoring tonight’s concert.
Program
Comedy Tonight
S. Sondheim
What a Wonderful World
Weiss & Thiele
. . .
An Evening With the Orchestra
An Evening with the Orchestra
The UCO Symphony Orchestra
Dr. Ralph Morris, Director
Dr. Emily Butterfield, Associate Director
George and Donna Nigh University Center Grand Ballroom
8:30 p.m., March 22, 2023
Program
Procession of the Nobles from the Mlada Suite
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Overture to The Italian Girl in Algiers
Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
Dr. Emily Butterfield, Conductor
. . .
UCO Choirs: A Capella Spring
5PM Sunday, March 26, 2023
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
A Capella Spring
Dr. Molly Johnson, director
Dr. Karl Nelson, director
PROGRAM
Evening Song
Zoltán Kodály
Karlie Roulet, soprano
Evening darkness overtook me near the woods;
I have put my coat under my head (i.e.as a pillow),
I have put my hands together
To pray to the Lord, like this:
Oh, my Lord, give me a place to sleep,
I am weary with wandering,
. . .
The UCO Symphonic Band: Illuminating Wonders
7:30PM Tuesday, March 7, 2022
Mitchell Hall Theatre
UCO Symphonic Band
Dr. Brian Lamb, conductor
Illuminating Wonders!
Spring ’23 “Festival of Light”
with special guests
Dr. Ed Huckeby
Guest Composer-in-Residence
and
The UCO Clarinet Choir
Mrs. Jennifer Rucker, director
PROGRAM
On This Bright Morning (2013)
David Maslanka (1943-2017)
Symphony of Light: A Symphonic Suite (2021)
Ed Huckeby (b. 1948)
I. Daybreak
II. Reflections
III. Fireflies
IV. Dark Side of the Moon
V. Neon
Illumination . . .
Die Fledermaus
Die Fledermaus – UCO Opera
7:30PM March 3–4, 2023
2PM March 5, 2023
UCO Jazz Lab
The University of Central Oklahoma
College of Fine Arts and Design
UCO School of Music
UCO Opera
Present
Die Fledermaus
By JOHANN STRAUSS
German Libretto by CARL HAFFNER and RICHARD GENÉE
Based on Le Réveillon by HENRI MEILHAC and LUDOVIC . . .
Wind Symphony: Look, Ma! No Hands!
7:30PM Thursday, March 9, 2022
Mitchell Hall Theatre
Look, Ma! No Hands!
UCO Wind Symphony
Dr. Brian Lamb, conductor
PROGRAM
Molly on the Shore (1920)
Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961)
Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582 (c.1712)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Transcribed by Donald Hunsberger (b. 1932)
unBroken (2021)
Randall Standridge (b. 1976)
Dance Movements (1996)
Philip Sparke . . .
Jazz Ensemble Concerts
UCO Jazz Ensembles
7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20, 2023
UCO Jazz Ensemble 4
Zac Lee, director
UCO Jazz Ensemble 2
Jeff Kidwell, director
Special Guest Perkins High School Jazz Ensemble – Randy Goodnight, director
7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023
UCO Jazz Ensemble 3
Ryan Sharp, director
UCO Jazz Ensemble 1
Brian Gorrell, director
. . .
FACS: Fat Tuesday
FAT TUESDAY
Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023
UCO Jazz Lab
Program
1st Set Bourbon Street Parade Way Down Yonder in New Orleans Si Tu Vois Ma Mere I Found a New Baby Ice Cream That’s a Plenty Everybody Loves My Baby Jeepers Creepers If I Had You Wolverine Blues 2nd Set Sweet Georgia Brown Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans High Society Ja-Da Saint James Infirmary The Sheik of Araby Back Home in Indiana Five Foot Two Bye, Bye Blackbird When the Saints Go Marching InTonight’s FACS performance is sponsored by Larry and Leah Westmoreland.
The UCO School of Music’s Faculty Artist Concert Series (FACS) showcases faculty musicians while also raising scholarship funds for UCO students. Proceeds from every performance generate scholarship funds to . . .