Westchester Symphonic Winds Winter Concert: “Journeys & Consequences”
Westchester Symphonic Winds – “Journeys & Consequences”
Curt Ebersole, Conductor/Music Director
Sunday, February 11 at 3:00 pm
The Winter concert features music which reflects events and transitions which changed the world. In observance of the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia, our featured work will be the dramatic and emotion-filled Music for Prague 1968, by Karel Husa, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1969. Our guest conductor is Keith Hodgson, Asst. Professor at University of the Arts, who will conduct Icarus and Daedelus Fantasy by Keith Gates. Our guest trumpet soloist is Donald Batchelder, principal trumpet of the New York City Opera Orchestra, performing Trumpeter’s Lullaby by Leroy Anderson and From the Shores of the Mighty Pacific by Herbert L Clarke. Our apprentice conductor, Kelly Oram, will conduct movements from the Giles Farnaby Suite, by Gordon Jacob.
Other works include Americans We, by Henry Fillmore; A La Machaut, by Andrew Boss; and Salvation is Created by Pavel Tschesnokoff.
