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Fall Concert
Bandfest: Fast and Furious!
Cal Poly Wind Orchestra, Wind Ensemble and Mustang Marching Band
Sunday, December 8 - 3:00 p.m., Performing Arts Center
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
WINTER CONCERT
Visions
Wind Orchestra and Wind Ensemble
Sunday, March 9 - 3:00 p.m., Performing Arts Center
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, Libetango
SPRING CONCERT
Edifice
Cal Poly Wind Orchestra and Wind Ensemble
Sunday, June 8 - 3:00 p.m., Performing Arts Center
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.
Works programmed for this concert will include
- Joshua Idio, Dreams of an Architect
- Frank Ticheli, Angels in the Architecture
Alumni Symphonic Band details and schedule.
