Harold Riley, jazz band director at New Haven Arts and Humanities Cooperative Magnet High School, will be guest conductor for the Yale Concert Band on Wednesday, December 3, at 8 p.m. in Woolsey Hall, corner of College and Grove streets. Thomas C. Duffy, associate dean, is music director of the Yale Concert Band.
Admission is free and the concert is open to the public.
The program will also include two concert premieres. It was commissioned by a consortium of colleges including Yale University and has already received rave reviews from around the country. Each year, a Connecticut public school conductor is invited to guest lead the Yale Concert Band. I get tremendous gratification from guiding musicians to a higher level of musical thought. As a conductor, I believe that it is paramount for you to understand the intent of the composer's musical idea.