Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 11-18, 1999

Volume 28, Number 8

Yale Concert Band's first show
of the season features film scores

The Yale University Concert Band will open its 1999-2000 season with sounds from the silver screen and a special salute to a New Haven-born composer.

"Music of the Movies" is the theme of the Yale Band concert taking place Friday, Oct. 15 at 8 p.m. in Woolsey Hall. The performance is free and open to the public.

In addition to the Yale Band's rendering of works by such noted composers as Franz Waxman and Aaron Copland, the program will include a tribute to Alfred Newman, who was born in New Haven 100 years ago and is one of six film composers honored this year by a United States Postal Service stamp series. The Postal Service will unveil the stamps in a brief ceremony during the concert.

"Conquest," Newman's score to the 1947 film "Captain from Castille," will be performed during the concert.

Also featured on the program will be "Suite from 'The Red Pony,'" one of only two film scores written by Copland; and Waxman's score to the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film "Rear Window" (the performance coincides with director Hitchcock's centennial). Waxman's son, John, a resident of Westport, Connecticut, has had a long collaboration with the Yale Band as distributor and advocate for his father's movie music.

Additionally, the band will perform music director Thomas C. Duffy's "The Critics' Choice." A fantasy film score, the piece is completed by the audience, which chooses one of three possible endings.

Other works on the program are Norman Dello Joio's "Scenes from 'The Louvre'"; Daron Hagen's "Bandanna Overture"; Kenneth Alford's "Colonel Bogey March" from the film "Bridge on the River Kwai"; and Erik Coates' "Dam Busters" from the film of the same title.

For more information, contact the Yale Bands business office at 432-4111.

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