The UNCSA Wind Ensemble presents Voices Shouting Out, a stirring evening of contemporary works that explore resilience, remembrance and renewal through powerful musical voices.

Valarie Coleman’s “Fanfare for Uncommon Times” opens with commanding brass and pulsing percussion, a reimagined fanfare written in the turbulence of the early 2020s. Rather than heralding victory, Coleman’s work calls for unity, perseverance and collective strength in uncertain times.

Joel Puckett’s “It Perched for Vespers Nine,” inspired by Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” meditates on hubris, punishment and redemption. Composer David Mailman leads his own “One Bright Day,” a luminous affirmation of perseverance and hope.

John Mackey’s Some “Treasures Are Heavy with Human Tears” stands as an abstract meditation on grief, music that journeys through denial, fury and anguish before finding a fragile, incomplete peace. It transcends any single tragedy, speaking instead to the universal ways people mourn and heal.

The program culminates with Nkeiru Okoye’s “Voices Shouting Out,” written after 9/11, a defiant, exuberant declaration of the unbreakable human spirit.