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Matthew Mailman conducts Dune Aurora (2025) by Jennifer Jolley

Matthew Mailman conducts the Oklahoma City University Wind Philharmonic in a performance of Dune Aurora (2025) by Jennifer Jolley on Thursday, March 5, 2026 in the Margaret E. Petree Recital Hall at Oklahoma City University. JENNIFER JOLLLEY - DUNE AURORA (2025) Born: January 7, 1981, Bellflower, California One movement, approximately 5:00 minutes OCU performances: 2026 Jennifer Jolley is a composer, blogger, and professor person. She is also a cat lover and part-time creative opera producer. Jennifer’s work draws toward subjects that are political and even provocative. Her collaboration with librettist Kendall A, Prisoner of Conscience, has been described as “the ideal soundtrack and perhaps balm for our current ‘toxic… times’” by Frank J. Oteri of NewMusicBox. Her piece, Blue Glacier Decoy, written as a musical response to the Olympic National Park, depicts the Pacific Northwest’s melting glaciers. Her partnership with writer Scott Woods, You Are Not Alone, evokes the fallout of the #MeToo Movement. Jennifer’s works have been performed by ensembles worldwide. She has received commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Quince Ensemble, and many others. Jennifer deeply values the relationship that is created between composers and the communities with whom they collaborate. She has been composer-in-residence at multiple institutions. She promotes composer advocacy through her opera company NANOWorks Opera and her articles for NewMusicBox & I CARE IF YOU LISTEN. Also, she is on the Executive Council of the Institute for Composer Diversity and the New Music USA Program Council. Jennifer joined the Texas Tech School of Music composition faculty in 2018 and has been a member of the composition faculty at Interlochen Arts Camp since 2015. About the work, the composer writes: This ComMission Possible project began with fifteen ideas that students formulated for me, including historical events, mythic settings, abstract experiences, and natural phenomena. I could only choose one idea, which was difficult because every idea I was given made me think. So I bent the rules alittle and selected two ideas. I selected the ideas of "Northern Lights" and "Sounds of Nature" (thanks, Brynlyn, Kenley, and Mason) because, in combination, these ideas pushed each other beyond my inital, isolated interpretations. The Northern Lights don't produce sounds like the ones we hear in a forest, but they do emit low-frequency radio waves. They also expand our conception of the natural world to include the cosmos. This seems fair, since we are made of star dust after all. As I read more about the Northern Lights, I discovered the piece's namesake. Dune auroras were first observed by Finnish citizen scientists in 2016. Their existence was officially reported in 2020 and confirmed the following year. Consisting of regularly spaced, parallel stripes of brighter emissions within the green diffuse aurora, dune auroras have an appearance similar to the wind-driven landforms found in desert and coastal environments. It's a great name—a gritty terrestrial form mapped onto the luminous sky. It offered me a new structure toimagine and adifferent compositional model. Bright patterns throughout the expanses encouraged me to give greater attention to ambient texture rather than structuring my work around a developing motif. Color and timbre distributed throughout the ensemble make melody less a line and more an extended field. I wanted to engulf the listeners in a warm body of texture and timbre, something that would reflect the inspiring and extraordinary beauty of the dune auroras themselves.