The season opens with Bach’s famous “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” and showcases the technical and sonic virtuosity of the USC Wind Ensemble. “Through the Veil” by composer and USC School of Music faculty member, Jesse Jones, is scored for wind ensemble and four coloratura sopranos. The work represents the progress of an eternal soul from a pre-mortal existence to its incarnation in a body and the subsequent death of the body, allowing the soul to rejoin the cosmos. Timpanists Scott Herring and Gordon Hicken join the ensemble in the premiere of the wind ensemble version of "Dynasty: Double Timpani Concerto" by composer James Oliverio.