The New Trier Symphonic Wind Ensemble has performed at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago and will be on tour in Italy next year.
We feature the New Trier High School Symphonic Wind Ensemble on this Saturday’s broadcast in a diverse program of music for wind and percussion instruments. The ensemble was selected by the judges of the 2014 Chicagoland Band Festival at John Hersey High School to perform on Introductions. Matt Temple is the director of bands at the Winnetka high school.
Program:
Folk Dances, Dmitri Shostakovich, arranged for wind ensemble by Donald Hunsberger
Lincolnshire Posy, Percy Grainger
I. Lisbon
II. Horkstow Grange
III. Rufford Park Poachers
IV. The Brisk Young Sailor
V. Lord Melbourne
VI. The Lost Lady Found
With Heart and Voice, David Gillingham