(KWNO)-The Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band at Winona State University will perform on April 21 at 2:00 p.m. in the Dufresne Performing Arts Center, WSU Winona Campus. The concert is free and open to the public.
The show opens with a brass and percussion ensemble led by student director and Music Education major, Max Davis, performing Edvard Grieg’s dramatic Funeral March. The Wind Ensemble, led by Dr. Janet Heukeshoven, will then take the stage for the exciting American Overture for Band by Joseph Willcox Jenkins followed by John William’s beautiful A Prayer for Peace from the film Munich. Music Business major Chase Larson will be featured as trumpet soloist on Slavische Fantasie by Carl Höhne. The Wind Ensemble will conclude the first half of the concert with Minnesota composer Timothy Mahr’s Noble Element.
Following a brief intermission, the Symphonic Band led by Dr. Cullan Lucas will open with the first movement of the famous Grieg Piano Concerto #1 transcribed for band by Marc Oliver. Isabelle Lassa, a Legal Studies major, will be the piano soloist. Next up – music from the video game genre: Tango and Tarantella from Shovel Knight by Jake Kaufma arranged by Mark Alpizar. The concert concludes with Darius Milaud’s landmark composition for band, Suite Francaise: a five-movement work named after French provinces where both French and US armies battled side-by-side in WWII.
For more information about the concert or Winona State University music programs, contact the WSU music department at musicchair@winona.edu.
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