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Stetson University Symphonic Band
The Stetson University
Symphonic Band is comprised of about 90 – 110 undergraduate
music and non-music majors enrolled in the School of Music. Not
unlike the university, the Symphonic Band has a long and distinguished
history. In addition to tour and conference performances the band performs a
regular concert series on the Stetson campus using the best wind literature
from the renaissance to the present day. In addition to presenting the
standard band repertoire, including the best of transcribed works, the
ensemble is committed to the best in new compositions. Recent premiere
performances include Samuel Adler’s Concerto for Guitar and Wind
Ensemble, David Maslanka’s Desert Roads: Four Songs for Clarinet
and Wind Ensemble, and the world premiere of Sydney Hodkinson's
Monumentum pro umbris.
Other contemporary works include Peter Graham’s Harrison’s Dream,
Christopher Marshall’s L’homme arme, David Maslanka’s Symphony
No. 4 and Sydney Hodkinson’s Symphony No. 9 … epiphanies …
for Symphony Orchestra without Strings. The Symphony Band has premiered a
number of transcriptions by Joseph Kreines including Walk to the Paradise
Garden by Frederick Delius, Six Movements of the Romeo and Juliet
Ballet Suite by Sergi Prokofiev and Finale to Symphony No. 2 by
Jean Sibelius.
Members of the Stetson faculty are regularly featured as
soloists with the Symphonic Band as well as musician from the professional
world including John Bruce Yeh, Clarinet – Chicago Symphony, Marie Speziale –
Cincinnati Symphony and the Cleveland Due – Cleveland Orchestra.
Since 1991 the Symphonic Band has performed at the following
conferences:
1991
– Florida Bandmasters Association – Tampa
1991
– Florida Music Educators Association – Tampa
1993
– MENC Southern Division Conference – Savannah, GA
1995
– Kentucky Music Educators Association – Louisville, KY
1996
– College Band Directors National Association/National Band Association
Southern
Division Conference – Biloxi, MS
1996
– Music Educators National Conference – Kansas City, MO
1998
– American Bandmasters Association National Conference – Biloxi, MS
2000
– Music Educators National Conference – Washington, D. C.
2002
– College Band Directors Association/National Band Association
Southern
Division Conference – Atlanta, GA
2003
– Florida Music Educators Association Conference, Tampa
2006
– College Band Directors Association/National Band Association
Southern Division Conference – Nashville, TN
In 1990 the Florida Bandmasters Association instituted the FBA
Hall of Fame. Since that initial year the School of Music has hosted the Hall
of Fame activities with the Symphonic Band serving as the featured ensemble.
This brings the total number of state, regional and national convention
appearances since 1991 to 28.
The strong support and involvement given the band by the
woodwind, brass, and percussion faculty creates an atmosphere of mutual
respect which insures the success of the Symphonic Band.
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