The Wind Ensemble takes to the road to perform side-by-side with the amazing musicians from two school music programs.

 

The Cal Poly Bands take to the stage with an energetic start to a season of concerts by some of Cal Poly's immensely talented musicians.

The powerful Pride of the Pacific Mustang Marching Band will make an appearance and fill the hall with highlights from the season of Cal Poly Athletics.

Featured works on the program will include

• Laura Estes, Wicklow
• David Foster, Holiday Tune (Ukrainian New Year)
• Leonard Bernstein, Slava!
• John Mackey, Redline Tango

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Cal Poly Bands explore the vastness of subconscious and of reality through musical works. A featured work on the program is Daniel Bukvich’s “In Memoriam – Dresden 1945.” The Wind Orchestra Chamber Musicians will perform a new work by Peter Meechan, “James Webb’s Pillars,” inspired by NASA’s photography of an interstellar stellar nursery called “The Pillars of Creation.”

Other works include

• Donald Grantham, Baron Cimetiére's Mambo
• Daniel Bukvich, In Memoriam – Dresden 1945
• Astor Piazzola, Libertango

 

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The Wind Orchestra and Wind Ensemble present a program that celebrates the art and craft of architecture, a discipline many of the bands’ students pursue at Cal Poly. The program will feature Cal Poly faculty Dr. Sarra Hey-Folick in a rousing work for clarinet and wind ensemble.

Works programmed for this concert will include

• Joshua Idio, Dreams of an Architect
• Scott McAllister, Black Dog Variations
• Frank Ticheli, Angels in the Architecture