CCM Wind Ensemble: Trials

7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22

• CCM Winds Series •

**TRIALS**

**CCM Wind Ensemble : Tyler Ehrlich, music director and conductor**

**Cincinnati Junior Youth Wind Ensemble (Jr. CYWE): Richard Canter, conductor**

An evening of music that traces a path through hardship toward hope. Featured works include Ramon Ricker’s setting of *Mein Junges Leben hat ein End* (My young life has ended) by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, David Maslanka’s stirring *Testament*, written in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, and Omar Thomas’ *Of Our New Day Begun*, commissioned in the weeks following the 2015 shooting at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The program closes with Pete Meechan’s poignant *Song of Hope*.

CHAIWANICHSIRI: Symphonic Poem "Rattanakosin"

PIETERSZOON SWEELINCK: *Mein junges Leben hat ein End*, arr. Ricker

MASLANKA: *Testament: Music for a Time of Trial*

SALFELDER: *Reminiscence*

THOMAS: *Of Our New Day Begun*

MEECHAN: *Song of Hope*

**Estimated run time**: 2 hours with intermission

**Location**: Patricia Corbett Theater, CCM Village, University of Cincinnati

**Tickets**: $19.50 adult, $15 student, $15 UC faculty/staff, $10 UC student, $5 CCM student; group discounts available. Buy tickets online.