Finest City Wind Orchestra presents, “Fear and Fantasy”

Works by Bach, Dahl, Dukas, Bronnenkant, Perkins, Grantham

Our October performance will put you in the mood for the autumn season with “Fantasy and Fear.” The concert features some older classics alongside newer works — favorites like The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and a Prelude and Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach will be a great compliment to Lindsey Bronnenkant’s Tarot (I see you enjoying a concert in the future!!). We also welcome to the podium SDSU Director of Bands Dr. Shannon Kitelinger, a pillar of artistic music-making in our region, and welcome to the audience composer Andrew David Perkins as we play his haunting Asylum.

Finest City Wind Orchestra presents “Ancient Winter Winds”

Works by Nelson, Stolzel, Gandalfi

As the weather cools into winter, we’ll keep bringing the exhilirationt at our December concert, “Ancient Winter Winds." We’re grateful to be hosted by the wonderful program at Mission Hills High School, directed by Chris Coughlin, and will perform works by Ron Nelson, Ingrid Stolzel, and Michael Gandalfi. Gandalfi’s Flourishes and Meditations on a Renaissance Theme is an especially exciting mix of the refined double reed melodies over delicate tambourine (as you might expect), and vibrant syncopations accenting virtuosic flourishes.

Finest City Wind Orchestra Presents. “Sound the Bells”

Works by Williams, Giroux, Daugherty, Grainger

Our Spring concerts will be just as exciting! March’s “Sound the Bells!” will explore the noble, the venerable, and sometimes funny “ding” of a bell, and culminate with Percy Grainger’s magnum opus Lincolnshire Posy. 

Finest City Wind Orchestra Presents, “Pop a Cork”

Works by Sousa, Musgrave, Day

Our final May concert has some more bubbly fun, just like the band does after most rehearsals, with “Pop a Cork!” We’ll sprinkle movements of John Philip Sousas’s refreshing People Who Live in Glass Houses between works by Thea Musgrave, Kevin Day, and Jaromir Weinberger.