Wind Symphony Concert

As America marks its 250th anniversary and Gettysburg commemorates the anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, the Sunderman Conservatory Wind Symphony presents a program tracing the American story from its Revolutionary roots through Civil War memory to the present day. The concert features Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait, narrated by Richard Sautter, a local actor, director, and member of the theatre faculty at McDaniel College. Sautter has written and performed four solo shows, including "My Gettysburg Address: Or Swimming to the High Water Mark," which asks What happens when America's most sacred ground is also the place where you live? The program also includes Richard Danielpour's Vox Populi ("voice of the people"), William Schuman's New England Triptych, drawn from Revolutionary era hymns by William Billings including "Be Glad Then, America," "When Jesus Wept," and "Chester," Frank Ticheli's Shenandoah, Carolyn Bremer's Early Light, and Jack Stamp's Cenotaph. This concert is an official America 250th – Adams County event.
This performance previews a reprise of Lincoln Portrait at the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute's Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture on November 19, the closing event of the town wide "Lincoln at Gettysburg: Shall Not Perish" commemoration.