Name: Symphonic Band & University Band Concert
Start: 2026-02-19T19:00:00-06:00
Location: The Missouri Theater

Symphonic Band & University Band Concert
The Missouri Theater
$5, MU community free w/ID
Livestream (if applicable): bit.ly/musomlive
Program: https://music.missouri.edu/programs
Symphonic Band Program Info
Works by: Andrew Boysen, Steven Bryant, and Katahj Copley.
The Boysen features his award-winning piece I Am, which is a deeply moving work that won the Claude T. Smith (famous Missouri composer and conductor) Memorial Band Composition Contest in 1991. It is based off of the following poem.
I Am
Life, Music, Competition.
I like exciting things, and doing good for others.
Beauty, Successfulness and Smartness are important to me.
I like to achieve recognition.
I can succeed if I really put my mind to it.
I am very set in my ways,
But I can change when I realize my ignorance.
I like a simple nonchalant lifestyle.
I hate ignorance.
I hate structuredness.
This is me. I am!
--Lynn Jones January 1990

Graduate Guest Conductor Kate Sellers will conduct Katahj Copley’s, In Living Color - "an ode to live music and the return to the wind band stage. This piece was inspired by the different colors of modern jazz like Snarky Puppy to the likes of George Gershwin to hits like Estelle’s American Boy in order to create a kaleidoscope of colors and energy. This is a celebration of life and all the small things that lead to the big things."