UMass Lowell’s two New England Youth Wind Ensembles pair our college student music mentors and teaching artists with talented younger musicians in an Honor’s Band environment. This year’s concert introduces respected traditional wind band compositions, understanding foundations in our genre through performance.
Our Junior Winds open with Curnow’s Canticum, followed by Tatgenhorst’s work, a piece composed for a television documentary on the Civil War, the inspirational Upon These Grounds. Next we perform the beautiful Blue Ridge Autumn, and conclude with Shaffer’s Fire Dance! Our Senior Winds meet tradition through Gustav Holst’s Moorside March and W. Francis McBeth’s Chant and Jubilo. Our contemporary work features the lyrical Nostalgia by Rossano Galante, which is followed by Offenbach’s multi-movement work, Ballet Parisien. The final movement of this contains the well-known Can-Can. The concert is 75 minutes, and is free and open to the public.