Music from Other Worlds this February

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, …

February Concerts feature 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 …

UFO Concerto for Euphonium and Wind Orchestra

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 …