About the Concert
Bandwidth was a free virtual community concert by the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, streamed live on YouTube on April 3, 2021. The program celebrated a diversity of composers and sounds in an increasingly digital world, with features for the Band’s brass, percussion, and woodwind ensembles.
The concert closed with the world premiere, its first performance anywhere, of James Lamb’s arrangement of music by Will Marion Cook, performed in collaboration with the UC Davis Concert Band. Cook was a classically trained Black violinist and composer who helped bring Black music to American audiences in the years before jazz took off.
Watch Musical Minutes: Musical Activism with Will Marion Cook on YouTube
The Program
- Studio Ghibli’s Anime March | Joe Hisaishi, arr. Yo Goto
- Solomon’s Ring | Hayato Hirose (Brass Ensemble feature)
- A Dance on Three Legs | Andrew Balent (Percussion Ensemble feature)
- Folksongs from Somerset | Ralph Vaughan Williams, arr. David J. Gardner (Woodwind Ensemble feature)
- Semper Fidelis | John Philip Sousa
- General’s Mandate | Traditional, arr. Mike Wong
- The Music of Will Marion Cook: Selections from Clorindy and In Dahomey | Will Marion Cook, arr. James Lamb (world premiere, with the UC Davis Concert Band)
Our Supporters
Bandwidth was made possible with support from Horizons Foundation and San Francisco Grants for the Arts.
