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Northern Symphonic Wind Band to perform free concert 'Featured Friends' on Jan. 31 in Potsdam

Posted 1/26/14

POTSDAM -- The Northern Symphonic Wind Band will perform a free concert entitled “Featured Friends” on Jan. 31 at 7:30 pm in Hosmer Hall at the Crane School of Music. The brass of Northern …

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Northern Symphonic Wind Band to perform free concert 'Featured Friends' on Jan. 31 in Potsdam

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POTSDAM -- The Northern Symphonic Wind Band will perform a free concert entitled “Featured Friends” on Jan. 31 at 7:30 pm in Hosmer Hall at the Crane School of Music.

The brass of Northern Symphonic Winds begin with a salute by Paul Dukas, famous for his music The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Less well-known but equally engaging is his fanfare to La Péri. Other folk melodies set to be performed include “Country Gardens” and “Early One Morning,” by Percy Grainger, along with one of the most famous compositions for the genre, Suite in F by Gustav Holst.

Both of Holst’s suites for Band are among the standard pieces played world-wide by high school and university Concert Bands and Wind Ensembles. The four movements of the second Suite in F are each based on English folk songs.

The band will also perform Burlesk for Band, which was composed by former Potsdam resident Robert Washburn. Washburn was an award-winning composer who wrote over 150 works for orchestra, band, chorus, chamber ensembles, and piano.

Among his most well-known commissions was Parade of Nations, composed for the opening ceremonies of the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid.

Also on the program is Richard Strauss’ Serenade for a small group of 13 brass and woodwinds.

Four more American composers supply the rest of the music on the program and Crane School of Music faculty members will be featured in all of them.

Lorraine Yaros Sullivan, mezzo-soprano will perform Cabaret Songs by William Bolcom, tenor Lonel Woods will sing Old American Songs by Aaron Copland, and Concertino for Three Brass and Band by Floyd Werle will feature James Madeja, trumpet, Mark Hartman, trombone and Charles Guy, tuba.

Finally, Baby Face Nelson and the Femme Fatale features Dean Michael Sitton on piano.

Admission to the concert is free.