IN SHORT
Join us for the first concert of our 2025-2026 season as we celebrate the waning of Summer. Sounds Fun! is a celebration of the wildest — and simply most fun — music you’ve never heard!
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Sounds Fun! is a presentation of the most energetic collection of music being written for today’s world – including a sprinkle of musical absurdism with Hamilton’s “Music for People Who Like Art”, a “touch” of noise with Paxton’s “shrimp BIT babyface”, a few grams of eclectic world premiere arrangements, and so much more. This evening offers a crucial space for communal and artistic joy, allowing some focus for the experiences we treasure most in life. It is a celebration of the wildest — and simply most fun — music you’ve never heard!
PROGRAM
shrimp BIT babyface – Alex Paxton
Coast (from Hoodoo Zephyr) – John Adams, arr. Caleb Burhans
My Buick – Louis Cole, arr. Vicki Leona Nguyen*
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Jori – Les Filles de Illighadad, arr. Zachary James Ritter*
Machaut-a-Go-Go – Eve Beglarian
Winter Astral – Beverly Glenn, arr. David Bloom
Music for People Who Like Art – Andrew Hamilton
*denotes world premiere arrangement
This performance is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts.
