Documents with this tag are season summaries such as program listings for a particular concert season.
Fall 2022 starts with a Halloween theme:
Listening examples are available. Two concerts are planned
Rehearsals start November 1st 2022. Three concerts are planned.
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Two concerts are being planned:
You can review the session by watching the video.
ACWE's spring, 2020 season includes:
Our Fall, 2018 seasons starts with a concert of familiar music on Saturday October 27th, 2018. See the concert notes.
Our holiday concert season kicks off, as always, with the Zilker Tree Lighting on November 25. We perform 2 or 3 additional concerts in mid-December.
ACWE hosts the Texas Community Music Festival at Central Market North in mid to late April. We also perform indoor concerts in early May.
To celebrate Independence Day, we play your favorite patriotic tunes and marches.
We start 2018 with an Asian theme.
Listening examples are available. Concert notes are also available.
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Two concerts are planned. Listening examples are available. Concert notes are also available.
Rehearsals start November 7th 2017. There is no rehearsal October 31st 2017 so you can go trick-or-treating with the young-uns.
The Zilker Tree Lighting is November 26th, 2017
Percy Grainger (1882-1961) was a piano prodigy born in Australia. He came to the United States at the outbreak of World War I, enlisted as an Army bandsman, and became an American citizen in 1918. His many masterworks for winds include “Lincolnshire Posy,” “Irish Tune from County Derry,” “Children’s March” and “Molly on the Shore.”
In “Molly on the Shore,” Grainger ingeniously combines two Cork reels, “Molly On The Shore” and “Temple Hill,” in a setting which features Grainger's most brilliant writing for winds. Grainger originally wrote “Molly on the Shore” in a 1907 as birthday gift for his mother. The wind band setting is but one of many, and it appeared in 1920.
1. Salts and Sails
2. Buccaneers' Regatta
Bill Hoene is the Director of Instrumental Music at Citrus College in Glendora, California, and directs the Sierra Wind Symphony of Citrus College.
“Sea Chanteys” is a soulful and sophisticated, but still fun and accessible, work for wind band. Presenting extreme contrasts of orchestration, texture, and color, this romantic tone poem evokes moments at sea through expressive solo lines, unique percussion contributions, harmonic effects, and engaging rhythms. The first movement, Salts and Sails, is a sentimental reflection of the spirited life often conveyed in songs of the sea. We hear the gentle sigh of the surf, feel the rolling, swelling surge of the waves, and imagine the billowing sails of great ships in passage. In movement two, Buccaneers' Regatta, we are launched into an ancient mariner's race between his heroic shipmates and a nefarious ship commandeered by vile scoundrels. While waves crash and cannons fire, ships' riggings whip in the rushing wind, and flocks of sea birds circle over the decks. Grand adventure on the high seas! “Sea Chanteys” was a finalist in the 2nd International Frank Ticheli Composition Contest in 2009.
Italian composer Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) wrote several operas, ballet music, chamber music, piano and organ works as well as cantatas. His style was much influenced by the French Impressionists mixed with his unique personal flair. Japanese arranger Yoshihiro Kimura adapted Respighi’s symphonic poem “Fontane di Roma” for concert band.
“Fountains of Rome” is the first of Respighi’s “Roman trilogy” of symphonic poems. “Fountains of Rome” is followed by “Pines of Rome” and “Roman Festivals.” Each of the movements in “Fountains of Rome” depicts one of Rome’s iconic fountains at a different time of the day.
Original version commissioned by the Oklahoma State University Trombone Octet
During his time as artist-in-residence at Oklahoma State University in 2014, Dr. Joseph T. Spaniola collaborated with OSU faculty and performing ensembles to create new musical compositions. He rehearsed with university musicians and presented lectures and concerts which contained new and existing Spaniola works. The collaboration yielded several musical works.
One of these works, “Water Fanfare” is a fast-moving, energetic concert fanfare with interesting lines and continuous forward motion. “Water Fanfare,” originally written for trombone octet, premiered on May 28, 2008 at the International Trombone Festival in Salt Lake City by the Oklahoma State University Trombone Octet. The trombone octet commissioned the piece in honor of their winning the Emory Remington Trombone Choir Competition.
Dr. Frank Ticheli is an American composer of concert band and other ensemble works. Ticheli has received numerous awards, and many of his most notable works are standards in concert band repertoire.
“Dancing on Water” is a joyous tribute to Ticheli’s longtime friend and colleague, Richard Floyd, and is partly inspired by Floyd’s love of sailing. In Ticheli’s own words:
“The work begins as an exuberant dance expressing feelings of unabashed joy. Imagine images of the sea on a perfect morning. This dance gives way to a heartfelt song played broadly in the horns and euphonium, supported by a playful background of crisp 8th-notes derived from the opening dance.
This ’song and dance‘ might have been sufficient as the work's material, but in the very center of the work appears something new—a kind of oasis, perhaps an island—a soulful interlude marked by mysterious solos and duos in the alto saxophone and clarinets. Then the work proceeds in reverse, suggesting an arch form, a return home by the same pathways, but with one final surprise: a massively full-throated coda, signaled by the horns, lifts the exuberance and majesty to new heights, driving this water journey to a powerfully exalted finish.”
John Clifford Heed (1862-1908), known as the "March Wizard," published more than 60 marches. He was born in Hackesttstown, New Jersey, and by age 17 had mastered composition with harmony and counterpoint, and led the Hackettstown Cornet Band.
The story entitled "Hackettstown's Early Musicians" in the book The Story of Hackettstown New Jersey from 1754 to 1955 by J. Harold Nunn claims that it was Heed who actually wrote the march "The Stars and Stripes Forever" for John Philip Sousa.
“In Storm and Sunshine” was one of Heed's earliest works, and it remains his most popular. It has all the ingredients for a great march, and is often categorized as a circus march because of its bright tempo and dynamic range.
Henry Fillmore (1881-1956) was one of the great American march composers. If not as popular as his contemporary March King, John Philip Sousa, he was extraordinarily prolific, with more than 250 original works and more than 750 arrangements to his credit. Many of Fillmore’s pieces were originally published under pseudonyms.
A klaxon is a loud electric horn, typically used as a warning device. “The Klaxon” march, composed in 1929, was written for the Cincinnati Automobile Show, with the title referencing a car horn. At a breakneck speed and with sudden dynamic shifts, this march can be quite breathtaking.
Volunteer for the 12th annual Texas Community Music Festival,
Date: April 21st - April 30th, 2017
Central Market Cafe North Lamar, rain or shine!
We have over 70 blocks scheduled for full-band performances and short showcase sets, which requires a LOT of coordination to run smoothly. As a volunteer, you will share duties by setting and breaking stage, receiving and directing the talent, and informing the audience.
You'll be representing the love for Austin music that drives your desire to continue performing too, whether with the host organization Austin Civic Wind Ensemble or your personal musical pursuits.
The best part? You'll get to hear a LOT of great local music, all in one central location, during the most beautiful weather of the year. OUR 2017 SCHEDULE IS HERE!
Be sure to include your email in the contact information -- the first 24 volunteers to sign up for two or more shifts will receive a link to claim an exclusive TCMF 12 t-shirt!* These are in limited supply and sizes, so be the first if you want to get your first choice. (Sorry, you may not "volunteer" while you are on stage performing, but you CAN schedule your shifts adjacent to your performance time.)
*pending budget approval
Thank you for your help!
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