UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY
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
Excalibur Chris Brooks (b. 1957)
Stained Glass (1990)
III. Suncatchers
Shine (2010)
David Gillingham (b. 1947)
Michael Markowski (b. 1986)
Mr. Thomas Biggs, Guest Conductor
Moonlit Dreams (2020)
Cajun Folk Songs (1990)
Intermission (15 minutes)
UVU Wind Symphony (45 minutes)
Dr. Christopher Ramos, Conductor
D’un Matin de Printemps (1918/2021)
Utah Premiere
Joshua Hinkel (b. 1978)
Frank Ticheli (b. 1958)
Two Jades (2011)
Dr. Donna Fairbanks, Violin
Lili Boulanger (1893–1918) trans. Jack Hontz
Symphony in B-Flat (1951)
I. Moderately Fast, with Vigor
II. Andantino Grazioso
III. Fugue
Kristin Kuster (b. 1973)
Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
CONDUCTOR’S STATEMENT
Colors Passing Through Us
Marge Piercy
Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh.
Every day I will give you a color, like a new flower in a bud vase on your desk. Every day I will paint you, as women color each other with henna on hands and on feet.
Red as henna, as cinnamon, as coals after the fire is banked, the cardinal in the feeder, the roses tumbling on the arbor their weight bending the wood the red of the syrup I make from petals.
Orange as the perfumed fruit hanging their globes on the glossy tree, orange as pumpkins in the field, orange as butterflyweed and the monarchs 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
me think of, here is oblique praise for the height and depth of you and the width too. Here is my box of new crayons at your feet.
Green as mint jelly, green as a frog on a lily pad twanging, the green of cos lettuce upright about to bolt into opulent towers, green as Grand Chartreuse in a clear glass, green as wine bottles.
Blue as cornflowers, delphiniums, bachelors’ buttons. Blue as Roquefort, blue as Saga. Blue as still water. Blue as the eyes of a Siamese cat. Blue as shadows on new snow, as a spring azure sipping from a puddle on the blacktop.
Cobalt as the midnight sky when day has gone without a trace and we lie in each other’s arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.
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
Eli Bergstrom
Aislynn Blanchard
Shelby Christensen
Anthony Cingolani
Brayden Cook
JW Ethington
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
Salem Hills Percussion Ensemble
Mr. Ryan Adair, Director
Matthew Fisher
Justin Garcia
Cale Hurst
Rajah Majeed
Charles Moody
Connor Ralls
Salem Hills Wind Ensemble
Mr. Ryan Adair, Director
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
Aaron Sorenson
Connor Stevens
Ellie Taylor
James Wilson
*denotes section principal
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
