Symphonic Wind Ensemble
SYMPHONIC WIND ENSEMBLE

MUS 492 (1 sem. hr. credit)
Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:30-6:30 pm

Director: Dr. Patrick Reynolds

The Symphonic Wind Ensemble meets each semester and performs the best in chamber and symphonic literature for winds and percussion during five campus performances each year. Entrance is by audition only. The audition consists of a prepared piece and sight-reading. Auditions are held during the first week of classes. Students may sign up for an audition time in Reichard Hall.

In the past five years, the Symphonic Wind Ensemble has perfomed at OMEA state and MENC regional conventions, as well as at the North Central Conference of the College Band Directors National Association on February 25, 2000. The groups has sponsored three commissioning projects and has premiered four new works in the past three years.

Contact Margaret Good via E-mail for further information, or Music Admissions.

CONCERT REPERTOIRE

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Performances during the 1998-99 Academic Year
Performances during the 1997-98 Academic Year (including audio samples)
Performances during the 1996-97 Academic Year

1998-99

20 October 1998
Overture to "Candide" Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
arr. Walter Beeler
Elegy John Barnes Chance (1932-1972)
In Evening's Stillness. . . Joseph Schwantner (b. 1943)
Concerto for Alto Saxophone
II. Meditative
I. Energetic
Dr. Willie L. Morris, alto saxophone
 Paul Creston (1906-1985)
Suite of Old American Dances
I. Cake Walk
II. Schottische
III. Western One-step
IV. Wallflower Waltz
V. Rag
 Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981)
5 February 1999 N. Cent. MENC/OMEA in Cincinnati
Rocky Point Holiday Ron Nelson
Elegy John Barnes Chance
Visions and Revelations
Dr. Richard Chenoweth, horn
Steven Winteregg
Variations on a Shaker Melody
Dr. Linda Hartley, conductor
Aaron Copland
Children's March "Over the Hills and Far Away" Percy Grainger

24 April 1999 Boll Theatre -University of Dayton
Canzona Peter Mennin
Elegy for a Young American Ronald Lo Presti
Adagio para Orquesta de Instrumentos de Viento Joaquin Rodrigo
Rhapsody in Blue
Dr. Eric Street, piano
Listen to 1 min. 34 seconds of the beginning of this: 		George Gershwin
trans. Donald Hunsberger
El Salon Mexico Aaron Copland
trans. Mark Hindsley

1997-98

29 November 1997
Gandalf: The Wizard
from the Symphony No. 1 Lord of the Rings (1987)
Listen to 46.9 seconds of this: 		Johan de Meij (b. 1953)
Rhosymedre (1920)
Listen to 43.5 seconds of this: 		Ralph Vaughan Williams (1873-1958)
arr. Walter Beeler
Five Folksongs for Soprano and Band (1965)
I. Mrs. McGrath (Irish)
II. All the Pretty Little Horses (American)
IV. El Burro (Spanish)
V. A Fiddler (Yiddish)
Dr. Linda Snyder, soprano
 Bernard Gilmore
Timepieces (1987)
I. A Point in Time
II. Summer Evening
III. Early Spring
IV. Times Remembered
 Cynthia Folio (b. 1954)
Lincolnshire Posy (1937)
I. Lisbon
II. Horkstow Grange
III. Rufford Park Poachers
IV. The Brisk Young Sailor
V. Lord Melbourne
VI. The Lost Lady Found
 Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
13 February 1998
Fantasia in G Major (1703) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
transcribed by Richard Franko Goldman
and Robert L. Leist
Medieval Suite (1983)
I. Homage to Leonin
II. Homage to Perotin
 Ron Nelson (b. 1929)
Carmina Burana (1936)
I. O Fortuna, velut Luna
II. Fortune plango vulnera
III. Ecce gratum
IV. Tanz - Uf dem Anger
VI. Were diu werlt alle min
VII. Amor volat undique
VIII. Ego sum abbas
IX. In taberna quando sumus
X. In trutina
XI. Dulcissime
XII. Ave formosissima
XIII. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi
 Carl Orff (1895 - 1982)
transcribed by John Krance
24 April 1998
Profanation from Symphony No. 1, "Jeremiah"
Listen to 55.4 seconds of this: 		Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
trans. Frank Bencriscutto
The Alcotts from Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord" Charles Ives (1874-1954)
trans. Richard Thurston
Xochipilli: an imagined Aztec music
Carrie Harrigan, piccolo Laura Gutenkauf, flute
Jennifer Cossman, e flat clarinet Dan Katona, trombone
Percussionists of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble
 Carlos Chavez (1899-1978)
Suite in F for Military Band, Op. 28 No. 2
March
Song Without Words "I'll love my love"
Song of the Blacksmith
Fantasia on the Dargason
 Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Variations on "America"
Listen to 55.4 seconds of this: 		Charles Ives
trans. William Rhoads
and William Schuman

1996-97

15 October 1996
Chester - Overture for Band (1957) William Schuman (1910-1992)
My Jesus! Oh, what Anguish (1736) J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
transcribed by Alfred Reed
William Byrd Suite (1923)
I. The Mayden's Song
II. Pavana
III. Jhon come kisse me now
IV. The Earle of Oxford's Marche
Gordon Jacob (1895-1984 )
Heroes, Lost and Fallen (1989) David Gillingham (b. 1947)
Concord (1987)
Guest Conductor: Dr. Mark Kelly,
Director of Bands Emeritus,
Bowling Green State University
Clare Grundman (1913-1995)
His Honor March (1933) Henry Fillmore (1881-1956)
25 February 1997
Toccata and Fugue in d minor, BWV 565 J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
arr. Erik Leidzen
Trauersinfonie Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Symphony No. 6
I. Adagio-Allegro
II. Adagio sostenuto
III. Allegretto
IV. Vivace
Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)
The Solitary Dancer (1969) Warren Benson (b. 1924 )
Fiesta del Pacifico (1960) Roger Nixon (b. 1921)
22 April 1997
Festive Overture, Op. 96 Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
arr. Donald Hunsberger
Konzertstuck, Op 86
I. Lebhaft
Erin Anspaugh, horn
Amy Hardy, horn
Leah Loeffert, horn
Kristi Stanfill, horn
 Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
trans. Douglas Campbell
Suite in E flat, Op 28, No. 1
I. Chaconne
II. Intermezzo
III. March
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Irish Tune from County Derry
Dr. Linda Hartley, conductor
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
The Sword and the Crown
I. Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long!
II. And she will sing the song that pleaseth you
III. Sound all the lofty instruments of war!
Kristina Otterson, speaker
Edward Gregson (b. 1945)

SWE at a rest area
en route

Performing at Cardinal Stritch H.S.
in Toledo, OH

Rehearsing for the CBDNA performance
at Central Michigan University

The hard-working seniors
of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble

25 February 2000
CBDNA Conference at Central Michigan University

Sesquicentennial Fanfare (1999)
Commissioned in honor of
the 150th annniversary of the University of Dayton 		Scott Boerma (b. 1964)
Concertino for Four Percussion (1997)
Debbie Batttaglia, percussion
Emily Meyer, percussion
Miranda McGovern, percussion
Melissa Shuster, percussion
 David Gillingham (b. 1947)
Suite Francaise (1945)
I. Normandie
II. Bretagne
III. Ile de France
IV. Alsace-Lorraine
V. Provence
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
Kah! Out of Darkness (1999)
Commissioned in honor of
the 150th annniversary of the University of Dayton 		Dana Wilson (b. 1946)
Colonial Song (1928) Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
Shepherd's Hey! (1918) Percy Grainger

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