Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 5, 2004|Volume 33, Number 10

Pictured is an image from one of the six 1943 Woolsey Hall radio broadcasts of "I Sustain the Wings" by Captain Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command Band.

Concert Band will stage 1943 Glenn Miller
radio broadcast

The Yale Concert Band will mark Veteran's Day on Thursday, Nov. 11, with "Glenn Miller Returns!" -- a reenactment of the band leader's 1943 Woolsey Hall radio broadcast, "I Sustain the Wings."

The performance will take place at 8 p.m. in Woolsey Hall, corner of College and Grove streets. Tickets are $30, $23 and $15 ($10 for students), and are available in advance through the Shubert Theatre box office, 247 College St., New Haven, or by calling (203) 562-5666 or (888) 736-2663.

Captain Glenn Miller and the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command Band -- better known as the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band -- made six broadcasts from Woolsey Hall in 1943. The shows, titled "I Sustain the Wings" after the AAFTTC motto "Sustineo Alas," were 25 minutes long and included radio skits, musical and vocal selections featuring both the larger orchestra and a military version of Glenn Miller's big band.

For the Yale Concert Band performance, the Woolsey Hall stage will be dressed as it was in 1943, and the band members will appear in the roles of their counterparts from six decades ago. They will be led by Thomas C. Duffy, conductor of Yale bands and deputy dean of the School of Music, who will assume the role of Glenn Miller.

The band has performed this program numerous times throughout Connecticut and New York, since it was originally conceived in 1994 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the D-Day landing at Normandy. At the performance that year, veterans who stood so they could be acknowledged spotted platoon mates across the hall with whom they had lost contact for 30 years.

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