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On Saturday, November 15, at 8:00 p.m., the Williams College Symphonic Winds, under the direction of Steven Dennis Bodner, will present a concert entitled “Sounds of Place,” exploring the relationships between identity construction, faith, and the concept of place. Continuing the Music Department’s semester-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Olivier Messiaen’s birth, the Symphonic Winds will perform two works, La ville d’en haut and Bryce Canyon et les rochers rouge-orange, that reveal ways in which the mystic and the natural were related for Messiaen. Also featured will be the premiere of Jonathan Newman’s My Hands Are a City, as well as works by Eve Beglarian, Gustav Holst, John Luther Adams, Ingram Marshall, and Pulitzer Prize winners John Harbison and David Lang.

Program (PDF)