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Concert Programs

SIWE focuses on new and standard concert literature for winds and percussion. We also have a complete alphabetical list of repertoire we have performed.


    November 17, 2011, Bloomington High School North
  Leonard Bernstein   Overture to Candide
  Martin Ellerbe   Paris Sketches
  Heather Schmidt   Ocean of Storms — Premiere performance
  Camille Saint-Saens   Morceau de Concert (w/Mitch Serslev, horn)
  Vincent Persichetti   Divertimento
  Frank Ticheli   Wild Nights!
         
    May 9, 2011, Bloomington High School North
  Peter Mennin   Canzona (1951)
  Heather Schmidt   Sea of the Edge (2011) — Premiere performance
  Aaron Copland (arr. Donand Hunsberger)   Quiet City
  Mike Mower   Concerto for Flute & Wind Orchestra (w/Kate Lukas, flute soloist)
  Percy Aldridge Grainger (arr. Richard Franko Goldman)   Handel in the Strand
 

Concert preview by Peter Jacobi of the Bloomington Herald-Times

Concert review by Peter Jacobi of the Bloomington Herald-Times

         
  February 10, 2011, Winter Cocert, Brown County High School (Nashville)
  SIWE Side-by-Side Series    
  John Barnes Chance   Variations on a Korean Folk Song (1965)
  Heather Schmidt   Sea of Serenity (2011) — Premiere performance
  John Williams (arr. James Curnow)   The Cowboys
  Dmitri Shostakovich (arr. Donald Hunsberger)   Galop (w/the Brown County High School Band)
         
Veterans Day Concert Poster   November 11, 2010, Veterans Day Concert, Bloomington High School North
  Gordon Jacob   Celebration Overture (1984)
  Robert Russell Bennett   Suite of Old American Dances (1950)
  Arthur Pryor   The Patriot (w/Carl Lenthe, trombone soloist) (1904)
  William Schuman   Chester (1957)
  Warren Benson   The Passing Bell (1974)
  Randall Thompson (trans., Lewis Buckley)   Alleluia (1940/1993)
  Charles Ives (arr. Schuman/Roads)   Variations on America (1891/1968)
         
  May 10, 2010, "Offbeat Marches," Bloomington High School North
  Percy Aldridge Grainger (ed. R. Mark Rogers)   “The Gum-Suckers” March (1914/1942)
  Gustav Holst (arr. Gordon Jacob)   Moorside March (from A Moorside Suite, 1928)
  Darius Milhaud   Suite Francaise (1945)
  Michio Mamiya   Glory of Catalonia (1990)
  Sergei Prokofiev (arr. Richard Franko Goldman)   Athletic Festival March, Op. 69, No. 1 (1935)
  Edvard Grieg (trans. Jan Eriksen, ed. Frederick Fennell)   Funeral March for Rikard Nordraak (1866)
  Samuel Barber   Commando March (1943)
  Charles Ives (arr. by James B. Sinclair)   “Country Band” March (1903)
  Paul Hindemith (trans. Keith Wilson)   March, from Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (1945)
         
    March 1, 2010, Owen Valley High School, Spencer, Indiana
  SIWE Side-by-Side Series    
  Dmitri Shostkovich (arr. Donald Hunsberger)   Festive Overture (1954/1965)
  Mark Camphouse   Yosemite Autumn (2004)
  Percy Aldridge Grainger (ed. Frederick Fennell)   Lincolnshire Posy (1939/1987)
  Leroy Anderson (arr. Michael Edwards)   Bugler's Holiday (1955/1994) (w/the Owen Valley High School Band)
         
    January 23, 2010, Indiana Music Educators Association Convention, Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis
  Ron Nelson   Lauds (Praise High Day) (1982)
  Leonard Bernstein (arr. Frank Bencriscutto)   Profanation, from Symphony No. 1 (1943/1995)
  Johnnie Vinson   Three Czech Folk Songs (1991)
  Vincent Persichetti   O Cool is the Valley (1972)
  Norman Dello Joio   Variants on a Mediaeval Tune (1963)
         
    January 19, 2010, Paoli High School, Paoli, Indiana
  Ron Nelson   Lauds (Praise High Day) (1982)
  Gustav Holst   Second Suite in F for Military Band (1922)
  Johnnie Vinson   Three Czech Folk Songs (1991)
  Leonard Bernstein (arr. Frank Bencriscutto)   Profanation, from Symphony No. 1 (1943/1995)
  Vincent Persichetti   O Cool is the Valley (1972)
  Norman Dello Joio   Variants on a Mediaeval Tune (1963)
         
  November 16, 2009, Bloomington High School North, "Fall Concert"
  Ron Nelson   Lauds (Praise High Day) (1982)
  Howard Hanson (arr. John Boyd)   Suite from the Opera Merry Mount (1934/2000)
  Donald White   Concertino for Solo Timpani, Winds, and Percussion (1972)
  Claude T. Smith   Eternal Father, Strong to Save (1975)
  Percy Aldridge Grainger   Ye Banks and Braes O'Bonnie Doon (1936)
  Gustav Holst   Second Suite in F for Military Band (1922)
  Norman Dello Joio   Variants on a Mediaeval Tune (1963)
  "The ensemble’s fall concert ... testified to the quality of membership and the players’ ability to coalesce into a true unit." Peter Jacobi, Bloomington Herald-Times. Read Jacobi's full review.
         
  May 11, 2009, Bloomington High School North, "Fantasy, Mystery, and Mayhem"
  John Adams (arr. Larry Odom)
  Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986/1994)
  Eric Whitacre   Ghost Train (1994)
  Ron Nelson   Danza Capriccio (1991), Otis Murphy, saxophone soloist
  Johan de Meij   Gollum, from the Lord of the Rings Symphony (1988)
  Edward Elgar (arr. Alfred Reed)   Nimrod, from Enigma Variations (1899/1965)
  Vincent Persichetti   Masquerade for Band (1966)
  Paul Dukas (arr. Mark Hindsley)   Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  "The Southern Indiana Wind Ensemble is the real deal. Its program of 'Fantasy, Mystery and Mayhem' ... affirmed that once and for all." Peter Jacobi, Bloomington Herald-Times. Read Jacobi's full review.
       
SIWE Concert at Owen Valley High School   March 2, 2009, Owen Valley High School, "American Originals"
  SIWE Side-by-Side Series    
  Claude T. Smith   Festival Variations (1982)
  Frank Tichelli   Amazing Grace
  James Barnes   Fantasy Variations on a Theme by Niccolo Paganini (1989)
  Brian Balmages   Summer Dances (w/Owen Valley High School Band)
         
    February 13, 2009, Eastern Greene High School, "American Originals"
  SIWE Side-by-Side Series
  Claude T. Smith   Festival Variations (1982)
  Howard Hanson   Chorale and Alluluia (1954)
  James Barnes   Fantasy Variations on a Theme by Nicollo Paganini (1989)
  Karl King (arr. James Swearingen)   Bonds of Glory (1955/1994) (w/Eastern Greene High School Band)

 

       
November 24, 2008, Poster   November 24, 2008, Bloomington HS North, "Winds Around the World"
  Andreas Makris (arr. Major Albert Bader)   Aegean Festival Overture (1967/1970)
  Gustav Holst   Hammersmith: Prelude and Scherzo (1930)
  Silvestre Revueltas (arr. Frank Bencriscutto)   Sensemayá (1938)
  Al Cobine   Suite for Trumpet and Concert Band (1972), Dominic Spera, Trumpet
  Bernard Rogers   Three Japanese Dances (1933)
         
May 2008 Poster   May 20, 2008, Sherwood Oaks Christian Church, "Colors of the Winds"
  Scott Boerma   Fanfare for a Golden Sky (2003)
  Roger Cichy   Colours (1999)
  Robert Russell Bennett   Rose Variations (1955), John Rommel, Trumpet
  Michael Gandolfi   Vientos Y Tangos (2004)
  Mark Camphouse   Fantasia On Black Is The Colour of My True Love's Hair (2005), conducted by Stephen Pratt
  Frank Ticheli   Blue Shades (1997)
  Aaron Copland   The Red Pony: Film Suite for Band, Mvts. 1 and 4 (1951/1969)
  "In a program of works themed on colors, the ensemble showed that challenges are what it exists to conquer, that mastering difficulties is an endeavor to enjoy," Peter Jacobi, Bloomington Herald-Times. Read Jacobi's full review.
     
Poster for February 19, 2008   February 19, 2008, Bloomington HS South, "Music of the British Isles"
  SIWE Side-by-Side Series    
  Haydn Wood   Tone Poem: Mannin Veen (1933)
  Percy Aldridge Grainger   Irish Tune from County Derry (1918)
  Malcolm Arnold, arr. John Paynter   Four Scottish Dances (1957/1978)
  John Phillip Sousa   Washington Post March (1889/1983; w/the Bloomington South Advanced Concert Band)
         
Poster for November 28, 2007   November 28, 2007, Bloomington HS North, Debut Concert
  SIWE Side-by-Side Series    
  Scott Lindroth   Spin Cycle (2001)
  Morton Lauridsen, arr. H. Robert Reynolds   O Magnum Mysterium (1994/2003)
  Percy Aldridge Grainger   Children's March, "Over the Hills and Far Away" (1919)
  H. Owen Reed   La Fiesta Mexicana (1949)
  Charles W. Smith   Christmas in the Round (w/the Bloomington North Symphonic Band)
 

"One could already discern an admirable sense of unity and a world of promise," Peter Jacobi, Bloomington Herald-Times. Read the full review and listen to a pre-concert interview that aired on WFIU November 27.

 

 

 

Eric Smedley

Music Director

Brett Richardson

Associate Music Director


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