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Graduate Wind Conducting Recital, Sean Donnelly

Conducting Student Scholarship

Program notes include:

• Festive Overture, Op. 96 (1947) - Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975); trans. Donald Hunsberger
• Incidental Suite (1966) - Claude T. Smith (1932-1987)
• Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral (1850) - Richard Wagner (1813-1883); arr. John R. Bourgeois
• Chorale and Shaker Dance (1972) - John Zdechlik (1937-2020)
• First Suite in Eb for Military Band, Op. 28 No. 1 (1909) - Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
• Alleluia! Laudamus Te (1973) - Alfred Reed (1921-2005)

Program Notes (Muap 621 – Recital), Kevin Cotter

Conducting Student Scholarship

Program notes include:

• TOCCATA FOR BAND (1957) by Frank Erickson (1923-1996)
• VARIATIONS ON DOWN AMPNEY (2004) by Jack Stamp (b.1954)
• FIRST SUITE IN E-FLAT FOR MILITARY BAND (1909) by Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
• PSALM FOR BAND (1954) by Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)
• SYMPHONY IN B-FLAT (1951) by Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

Graduate Wind Conducting Recital Program Notes, Leigh Ann Purdue

Conducting Student Scholarship

Program notes include:

• First Suite in Eb for Military Band (1909) - Gustav Holst
• On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss (1989) - David Holsinger
• Clouds (1994) - Anne McGinty
• Lincolnshire Posy (1937) - Percy Aldridge Grainger
• Shenandoah (2019) - Omar Thomas
• Circus Bee (1908) - Henry Fillmore

2021 Recital Program Notes, Deanna Perkosky

Conducting Student Scholarship

Program notes include:

• Chant and Jublio - W. Francis McBeth
• Loch Lomond - Frank Ticheli
• Chorale and Shaker Dance - John Zdechlik
• Irish Tune from Country Derry - Percy Grainger/Arr: Mark Rogers
• First Suite in E Flat - Gustav Holst
• Celtic Ritual - John Higgins
• Rhythmic Danse - Richard Saucedo
• Amazing Grace - Frank Ticheli
• Armenian Dances Part I - Alfred Reed

Program Notes (Muap 621 – Recital), Ryan Pilius

Conducting Student Scholarship

Program notes include:

• Juggernaut (2015) - Gary D. Ziek
• First Suite in Eb (1909) - Gustav Holst
• As Summer was Just Beginning (1994) - Larry Daehn
• Foundry (2011) - John Mackey
• Overture for Winds (1959) - Charles Carter
• Yorkshire Ballad (1984) - James Barnes
• Armenian Dances: Part 1 (1972) - Alfred Reed

2020 Spring Senior Series (Weekend 2), Messiah College

Theatre and Dance Productions

Saturday, March 7 @ 8pm

Sunday, March 8 @ 2pm

Poorman Black Box Theater, Climenhaga Building, Messiah College

• Her Story, created & performed by Abbie Weinel, featuring Jim Hy
• More, created & performed by Micah Crandall, featuring Katie Phykitt

2020 Spring Senior Series, Messiah College

Theatre and Dance Productions

Friday, March 6 @ 8pm Saturday, March 7 @ 2pm

Poorman Black Box Theater, Climenhaga Building, Messiah College

Two original pieces will be featured;

• All in the Timing, Directed by Aidan Lewis
• Aurora Spectrum, Created & performed by Sara Parrish & Leah DePra.

Estimated Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes

Daring To Move: Dance Explorations Of Uncertainty, Risk, And Emotional Exposure - February 2020, Messiah College

Theatre and Dance Productions

“Daring to Move: Dance Explorations of Uncertainty, Risk and Emotional Exposure” Humanities Symposium dance concert

Gregg Hurley, director

Poorman Black Box Theater

Anne Of Green Gables - February 2020, Messiah College

Theatre and Dance Productions

Directed by Ed Cohn

Music Direction by Eric Dundore

Choreography by Gregg Hurley

Anne of Green Gables follows the misadventures of a wildly independent orphan with fiery red hair and a temper to match. Anne Shirley is mistakenly sent to live with a plainspoken farmer and his spinster sister, who thought they were adopting a boy! As she attempts to win over the Cuthburts and all of Prince Edward Island with her irrepressible spirit and imagination, she wins over the audience with this warm, poignant story about love, home, and family. Cherished by generations, Lucy Maud Montgomery's timeless classic comes …

2019 Fall Senior Series: “Great Challenges, Greater Joy” & “Sam And Charlie”, Lindsey Blank, Brooklyn Duttweiler, Brittany Grove, Ellen Diehl

Theatre and Dance Productions

December 13 & 14, 2019 @ 8pm Poorman Black Box Theater, Climenhaga Building, Messiah College Estimated Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes (time includes one 15 minute intermission)

Great Challenges, Greater Joy Created by Lindsey Blank & Brooklyn Duttweiler

In our lives we have found that art explores life’s greatest challenges while also expressing the joy that God gives. In pursuit of this creative endeavor, we showcase the different redemption stories that have altered our perceptions. Through the combination of dance and costuming, we have worked to express those emotions that are too difficult to put into words.

Estimated runtime: 30 …

She Stoops To Conquer - November 2019, Elizabeth Angelozzi

Theatre and Dance Productions

Directed by: Elizabeth Angelozzi

Pranks and hijinks abound in this raucous 18th century comedy of big costumes, big sets, big hair, and even bigger laughs. Two well-bred young men arrive at the country estate of Mr. Hardcastle, intending to woo his daughter Kate and her cousin Constance; but when local mischief-maker Tony Lumpkin plays a practical joke on the city slickers, the Hardcastle household is launched into a dizzying, deliciously preposterous romp of mistaken identity.

Estimated Runtime: 2 hours 40 minutes

Performance Dates: Nov. 14-17; 22-24, 2019

W;T - October 2019, Messiah College

Theatre and Dance Productions

Written by Margaret Edson

Directed by Edward Cohn

Margaret Edson’s powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize–winning play examines what makes life worth living through her exploration of one of existence’s unifying experiences—mortality—while she also probes the vital importance of human relationships.

Climenhaga Building Poorman Black Box Theater

October 3-5, 8 p.m.; Oct. 6, 3 p.m.