Sounds Fun!

Join us for the first concert of our 2025-2026 season as we celebrate the waning of Summer. Sounds Fun! is a presentation of the most energetic collection of music being written for today’s world. It offers a crucial space for communal joy, allowing a focus for this one evening on the experiences we treasure most in life. It is a celebration of the wildest — and simply most fun — music you’ve never heard!

Program:

Alex Paxton: shrimp BIT babyface

John Adams, arr. Caleb Burhans: Coast (from Hoodoo Zephyr)

Louis Cole, arr. Vicki Leona Nguyen: My Buick (live sesh)*

-intermission-

Les Filles de Illighadad, arr. Zachary James Ritter: Jori *

Eve Beglarian: Machaut-a-Go-Go

Beverly Glenn-Copeland, arr. David Bloom: Winter Astral

Andrew Hamilton: Music for People Who Like Art

*denotes world premiere arrangement

Host or Publisher Contemporaneous