Winter Concert March 21, 2025
Featured soloist -- UWO Music Faculty Kirstin Ihde on the piano in George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
Our program also featured Symphony #1 by Timothy Mahr, Morton Gould’s American Salute and Semper Fidelis by John Philip Sousa (his personal favorite of his many marches).
In honor of J.S. Bach's 340th birthday (on March 21st), the band performed an arrangement of a chorale as harmonized by Bach.
Spring Concert May 17, 2024
Our program spanned centuries of band music, from Amilcare Ponchielli’s Sinfonia in Bb to Red Tails by Ayatey Shabazz in 2020 to in tribute of the Tuskegee Airmen of WW II.
Our program also featured a staple of band repertoire New England Triptych, based on the music of American colonial composer William Billings and composed in the 1950’s by William Schuman.
A more recent piece is The View from the Mountain Top by Timothy Mahr. Our march was our national march, The Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa.
Holiday Concert December 13, 2024
Featured soloist -- graduating UWO senior Jayden Flowers performing Ballade for Alto Saxophone and Band by Alfred Reed
Our program also included Nelson’s Medieval Suite, Procession of the Nobles (Rimsky-Korsakov), An American in Paris by George Gershwin, and In Storm and Sunshine March by J.C. Heed.
We concluded our with our tradition of playing A Christmas Festival by Leroy Anderson
Our program focused on music based on a theme, either original or well known. Two pieces, Rejouissance by James Curnow, and The Leaves are Falling composed by Warren Benson make use of the Martin Luther’s well known chorale Ein Feste Burg (A Mighty Fortress is Our God).
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Passacaglia and Fugue and First Suite in Eb for Military Band by Gustav Holst use original melodies as the basis of the compositions.
Our program also included Lyric for Band by George Walker, and Florentiner March by Julius Fučik.