Wind Ensemble Winter Concert December 6

SALISBURY, MD---The Salisbury University Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Richard L. Johnson, associate professor and chair of the SU Music Department, presents its annual winter concert on Thursday, December 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Holloway Hall Auditorium.  The performance is free and the public is cordially invited.

The program, beginning with “Crown Imperial:  A Coronation March” by William Walton, features Australian-born composer Percy Aldridge Grainger’s “Lincolnshire Posy” (1936) and “Symphonic Songs for Band” (1958) by Robert Russell Bennett.

Other selections include “O Sacred Head” from Three Chorale Preludes (1958) by William P. Latham, Camille Saint-Saëns’s “Orient et occident” (1869), and “Variation V- Nimrod IX” from Variations on an Original Theme ‘Enigma’, Op. 36 (1899) by  Edward Elgar.   

“Established in 1989 as the Wind Sinfonia,” said Johnson, “the SU Wind Ensemble represents some of the finest wind, brass and percussion performers at Salisbury University and on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.”

 The Ensemble, which has received three invitations to state music conferences including the Maryland Music Educators Association fall in-service in 1995, maintains an active schedule of appearances during the academic year that includes at least two formal campus concerts.

 In the nine-year history of the organization, the Wind Ensemble has premiered works by composers Beth Wiemann and James Syler and participated in collaborative performances with the Peabody Conservatory Wind Ensemble, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Wind Ensemble, the Asbury United Methodist Church Chorale, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, the Salisbury Choral Society and the SU Chamber Choir and University Chorale.

Performing music representative of all of the musical epochs from an educational approach as well as an historical and aesthetic perspective, the Ensemble’s repertoire includes pieces written for chamber ensemble to full band, transcriptions to original works for the genre and avant-garde to traditional music. 

The performance is being sponsored, in part, by funding from the SU Offices of the President and Provost and Fulton School of Liberal Arts. For more information contact the SU Office of Public Relations at 410-543-6030 or visit the Web site www.salisbury.edu.