The Wellington Winds is busy preparing for our last pair of concerts for the season, on April 19 in Kitchener and April 26 in Waterloo. The theme of this grand finale to our season is Concerto for Wind Ensemble. The theme may seem a bit cryptic – after all, a concerto is generally understood to …
As the winter weather seems to intensify in February, the Wellington Winds is pleased to offer you an escape with our program, Music from Other Worlds. Outer space is the theme with music from ET, Battlestar Galactica, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, When You Wish Upon a Star, Debussy’s Clair de Lune, Turrin’s High Flight, …
Guest post by Michael Purves-Smith High Flight, by Joseph Turrin (1947 – ) http://www.curnowmusicpress.com/josephturrin.htm This challenging work was written in 2008 for the United States Air force Band, certainly a contender for the finest band in the world. It is a work that capitalizes fully on the virtuosic resources of that group, as the composer …
Longtime Winds followers will remember euphonium player extraordinaire, Harvey Gleiser, who passed away in 2010 after a lifetime of music-making. Our concerts on February 8 and February 22 include a tribute to Harvey. Harvey left a generous bequest to the Winds, and we have used some of those funds to partner in a consortium for …