The Dr. Grier Williams School of Music will present the Symphonic Band in concert on Sunday, March 3, 2024, at 3:30 p.m. The concert will be held in the Mainstage Theatre at the Center for Fine and Performing Arts (Building 82) on the Pensacola campus.

This event is free and open to the public and no tickets are required. For more information, visit the Center for Fine and Performing Arts website or call the CFPA box office at 850.857.6285.

Under the direction of Dr. Steven Sudduth, Dr. Grier Williams School of Music will be presenting The Symphonic Band coupled with the debut of the Wind Ensemble, a smaller wind chamber ensemble selected by audition.  The Wind Ensemble will begin the concert performing Contrapunctus IX by J. S. Bach, arranged for band by Andy Clark and concluding with 7 movements of the Little Threepenny Music by Kurt Weill with one of the movements featuring the popular tune Mack the Knife in its original version. The Symphonic Band will present Hobbits from Lord of the Rings by Johan de Meij, Galop by Dmitri Shostakovich arrange by Donald Hunsberger, Tico-Tico by Brazilian composer Zequinha Abreu and adapted for band by Naohiro Iwai, and ending the concert with Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral by Richard Wagner transcribed by Lucien Cailliet.

The Symphonic Band is committed to performing the finest wind band repertoire and is open to all UWF students with prior experience on an instrument. Students in the Symphonic Band are enrolled in numerous majors and minors across the UWF campus.