The King of Wind Instruments

November 10, 2009

What happens when you take a wind ensemble and add the most overpowering wind instrument of all, the pipe organ? On Tuesday, November 17, the Dallas Wind Symphony, the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Wind Ensemble, and organist Mary Preston join forces.

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Snakes, Lobsters, and Concertos

October 6, 2009

Titles are funny things, and Paul Richards knows how to grab your attention with titles like “A Butterfly Coughs in Africa” and “Falling on Lobsters in the Dark.” But he holds your attention with a rich palette of innovative and engaging sounds. The Dallas Wind Symphony will perform his concerto “Snake in the Garden” in [...]

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A Modern Medieval Mega-Hit

September 3, 2009

What’s this program about? Carl Orff selected vivid poems from a Medieval manuscript and super-charged them with color and energy to create the mega-hit “Carmina Burana” in 1937. An innovative music educator and proponent of Eurhythmics, Orff poured his understanding of natural melody and rhythm into this theatrical work, a spectacle for ear and eye. [...]

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An Interview with Timothy Reynish

March 25, 2009

British conductor Timothy Reynish is a great promoter of wind bands and a commissioner of new music for wind bands.  He has conducted many esteemed orchestras, and taught conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.  Maestro Reynish talks to Professor Carol about guest conducting the season finale of the Dallas Wind Symphony, the program of [...]

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Marches in March

March 3, 2009

What’s this program about? “Marches in March” is full of traditional and unexpected music—marches from the ragtime era, marches for circuses, sultans, bullfights, and films, as well as a new march by David Lovrien and the wind-band premiere of Lowell Liebermann’s Concerto for Flute with soloist Melinda Wilson, Principal Flutist with the Dallas Wind Symphony. [...]

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Big Band Boogie

January 29, 2009

What’s this program about? Unless you’ve mastered time travel, it’s pretty hard nowadays to hear these big-band classics played as they were – back when Tommy Dorsey was swinging with the tune “Well, Git It.” But when top-notch players of the Dallas Wind Symphony take on these tunes, they’ve got the chops to swing to [...]

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An Interview with David Kehler

December 21, 2008

What’s this program about? David Kehler will conduct the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Wind Symphony as it joins forces with the Dallas Wind Symphony on the upcoming side-by-side concert. Kehler discusses how the young people get involved with the professional ensemble, the differences in conducting youth and professional ensembles, and the music of David Maslanka [...]

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Americans We

November 11, 2008

What’s this program about? The Dallas Wind Symphony performs a concert entirely of American music running the gamut from show music to patriotic tunes to new pieces from some of America’s leading wind-band composers. Works discussed Stephen Bryant, Stampede; Morton Gould, American Salute; John Gibson, American Anthem; Fisher Tull, Rhapsody for Trumpet and Symphonic Band; [...]

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U.S. Marine Drum & Bugle Corps

October 28, 2008

Carol found the U.S. Marine Drum & Bugle Corps warming up for a concert at the Texas State Fair and took that opportunity to ask Sgt. Kyle Baker about the organization’s mission and its performances at the Fair. U.S. Marine Drum & Bugle Corps from Carol Reynolds on Vimeo.

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Band’s Greatest Hits

October 10, 2008

What’s this program about? There isn’t exactly a Top 40 for the Band World. But if there were, every piece on this concert would be high on the list. Works discussed: Clifton Williams, Fanfare and Allegro; Vaclav Nehlybel, Symphonic Movements; Holst, Second Suite in F; Milhaud, Suite Francaise; Persichetti, Symphony for Band, Op. 69; Varese, [...]

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