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Dartmouth Wind Symphony

Max Culpepper, conductor

There's No Place Like Home

with special guests
Douglas Perkins, xylophone
Columbia University Wind Ensemble,
Andrew Pease '01, conductor

Friday, FEBRUARY 15 • 8 pm
Spaulding Auditorium
$14 • Dartmouth students $3
All other students $6

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The concept of “home” elicits many different notions: family, birthplace, a house, a nation— the place we hope to go when we die. It's often an evocative symbol for safety, rest and comfort. In this moving musical journey, the Wind Symphony touches on such motifs, from songs about coming home from war, like American Salute, based on the fervent 19th-century classic When Johnny Comes Marching Home, to Dvorák's memorable Largo or “Going Home” theme, the second movement of his New World Symphony. The Home Town Boy is a 1962 march played in honor of guest conductor Andrew Pease, who was the student conductor of the Dartmouth College Marching Band. Also on the program are Britten's The Building of the House, celebrating the completion of a home for the arts, and Log Cabin Blues, with guest soloist, Dartmouth percussion instructor Douglas Perkins. Amazing Grace, an enduring 18th-century hymn by a repentant slave-ship captain, has become synonymous with remembrance and the universal hope of divine guidance home. The Columbia University Wind ensemble joins DWS for the rousing grand finale: There's No Place Like Home!

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