UVU Wind Symphony Program

UTAH VALLE Y UNIVERSIT Y

WIND SYMPHONY “COLORS PASSING THROUGH US” UVU WIND SYMPHONY Dr. Christopher Ramos, Director

SALEM HILLS HIGH SCHOOL BANDS Mr. Ryan Adair, Director

November 21, 2025 7:00 p.m.

Concert Hall

PROGRAM Salem Hills High School Wind Ensemble & UVU Wind Symphony Combined Ensemble (10 mins) Resonances I (1991)

Ron Nelson (1929–2023)

Salem Hills High School Percussion Ensemble (30 mins) Mr. Ryan Adair, Conductor Chris Brooks (b. 1957)

Excalibur Stained Glass (1990) III. Suncatchers Shine (2010)

David Gillingham (b. 1947)

Michael Markowski (b. 1986) Mr. Thomas Biggs, Guest Conductor

Moonlit Dreams (2020)

Joshua Hinkel (b. 1978)

Cajun Folk Songs (1990)

Frank Ticheli (b. 1958)

Intermission (15 minutes)

UVU Wind Symphony (45 minutes) Dr. Christopher Ramos, Conductor D’un Matin de Printemps (1918/2021)

Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) trans. Jack Hontz

Utah Premiere Two Jades (2011)

Kristin Kuster (b. 1973) Dr. Donna Fairbanks, Violin

Symphony in B-Flat (1951) I. Moderately Fast, with Vigor II. Andantino Grazioso III. Fugue

Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)

CONDUCTOR’S STATEMENT Colors Passing Through Us Marge Piercy Purple as tulips in May, mauve

me think of, here is oblique

into lush velvet, purple

praise for the height and depth

as the stain blackberries leave

of you and the width too.

on the lips, on the hands,

Here is my box of new crayons at your feet.

the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh.

Green as mint jelly, green as a frog on a lily pad twanging,

Every day I will give you a color,

the green of cos lettuce upright

like a new flower in a bud vase

about to bolt into opulent towers,

on your desk. Every day

green as Grand Chartreuse in a clear

I will paint you, as women

glass, green as wine bottles.

color each other with henna on hands and on feet.

Blue as cornflowers, delphiniums, bachelors’ buttons. Blue as Roquefort,

Red as henna, as cinnamon,

blue as Saga. Blue as still water.

as coals after the fire is banked,

Blue as the eyes of a Siamese cat.

the cardinal in the feeder,

Blue as shadows on new snow, as a spring

the roses tumbling on the arbor

azure sipping from a puddle on the blacktop.

their weight bending the wood the red of the syrup I make from petals.

Cobalt as the midnight sky when day has gone without a trace

Orange as the perfumed fruit

and we lie in each other’s arms

hanging their globes on the glossy tree,

eyes shut and fingers open

orange as pumpkins in the field,

and all the colors of the world

orange as butterflyweed and the monarchs

pass through our bodies like strings of fire.

who come to eat it, orange as my cat running lithe through the high grass.

Yellow as a goat’s wise and wicked eyes, yellow as a hill of daffodils, yellow as dandelions by the highway, yellow as butter and egg yolks, yellow as a school bus stopping you, yellow as a slicker in a downpour.

Here is my bouquet, here is a sing song of all the things you make

I am married to a visual artist (she has illustrated all our remarkable posters over the last year), and she has taught me now for years the power that the thoughtful use of color has to bring us to all sorts of places: wisdom, awe, beauty, empathy, humor, belonging, sadness, joy, anger, hope. The relationship between the visual arts and the aural ones is a close one. Arnold Schoenberg, Kurt Cobain, and David Bowie were also known to paint, as were painters sometimes known for their musical prowess: Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Henri Matisse. Perhaps it is part of the attraction in my own marriage, especially as I have never trained in the visual arts and my wife has never formally trained in the musical ones. She enjoys going to the symphony as much as I enjoy a gallery opening (immensely, that is).

Each piece on the program this evening enjoys its own distinctive color palette, and they usually stake their titles in relationship to visual form. Even those with more traditional vague titles (“Resonances 1,” “Symphony in B-Flat”), you will quickly find to be perhaps the most colorful in their aural images. From the gentle blue hues of “Moonlit Dreams,” to the cool, impressionistic world of “D’un Matin de Printemps,” to the dense, fiery harmonies of Hindemith’s writing, I hope this evening you experience a kaleidoscope of tantalizing colors and that perhaps you might even experience some you have never even dreamed of before.

From all of us to you, here is our new box of crayons laid at your feet.

—C.R.

Scan for program notes and performer biographies.

UVU Wind Symphony Dr. Christopher Ramos, Conductor Flute Jessica Allen Cami Bartholemew Rachel Christensen Jenifer Swanson* Ashley Toomey Oboe Luca de la Florin Emily Adams Bassoon Eric Christensen* Ellie Sorenson Joshua Magnusson Clarinet Adrian Blanco Hannah Brown Kaydence Butler, Bass John Gates Conner Hodson Julia McHenry Jeffrey Rawlings* Alec Russell Robyn Ward Kathleen Williams

* denotes section principal

Saxophone Gideon Baker, Tenor Addy Hogan, Alto Ruth Payne, Bari Logan Stanford, Alto* Trumpet Arye Arteaga Brandon Ard Katherine Goehring Connor Perkins Hugo Thompson* Jordon Toomey Horn Steven Dulger* Cora Jackson Sean Knowlton Andrew Williams Trombone Michael Ferrier* Steven Gravley Jay Henrie, Bass Mackay Hill William Whitehead

Euphonium Abdallah Elhaddi Gabriel Nelson Tuba Sam Hikida Alex Jensen Jarom Lewis* Giovanni Ochoa Percussion Jordan Bushman Carter Cox Liesel Coxson James Hatch* Geovanni Thomas Alex Stone Nick Walker String Bass Max Hanks Piano Anna Peterson Harp Travis Lunt

Salem Hills Percussion Ensemble Mr. Ryan Adair, Director Eli Bergstrom Aislynn Blanchard Shelby Christensen Anthony Cingolani Brayden Cook JW Ethington

Matthew Fisher Justin Garcia Cale Hurst Rajah Majeed Charles Moody Connor Ralls

Aaron Sorenson Connor Stevens Ellie Taylor James Wilson

Salem Hills Wind Ensemble Mr. Ryan Adair, Director Flute Ava Pettijohn* Paige Christensen Kaela Cordner Jessie Datin Kaitlin Binks Oboe Megan Fletcher* Ava O’Neil Bassoon Adelaide Krieger-James-Mercado* Clarinet Jacqueline Logue* Luke Taylor Adam Bauman Aaron Diaz Sophia Lanphear Alex Johnson Dmitri Nguyen

*denotes section principal

Bass Clarinet Grant Palmer* Alto Saxophone Xander Lofthouse* Grace Holbrook Olivia Knapp Tenor Saxophone Nyles Pyne* Baritone Saxophone Dylan Maile* Trumpet Desirae Cabazos* Aria Menditto Sadie Johnson James Gordon-Calvillo Horn Cecilia Nelson* Reide Henze

Trombone Emily Datin* Braylon Peart Genevieve Pearson Caleb Thurgood Eupnonium Sienna Peterson* Araceli Dennis Serra Patterson Nathan Lauritzen Tuba Ian Chamberlain* Tristan Moody