MAFB highlights three exciting young compositional voices to come out of Missouri on this concert with music by Richard Joey Carter, Kristen Hirlinger, and Matthew Manning. These works are paired with the father of modern concert band music, Missouri’s own Claude T. Smith’s Incidental Suite. Jason Gerraughty’s burn it down. salt the earth and Evan Williams’ love words give us the “Bitter” of the concert’s title. Smith and Tom Davoren’s award winning “Midwestern Suite” bring the “Suite” and Ida Gotkovsky’s rapturous Joyeuse Symphonie offers us our “Symphony.”