Episode 348: Season 8 Festival

You may have heard that 10,000 hours of practice makes you an expert. Perhaps if you practice that long you can get to Carnegie Hall! As we open the door on an all new season of Wind & Rhythm it’s easy to think about that big break that gets you onstage in that great performance hall. 

​In the previous 7 years of Wind & Rhythm, we’ve heard about 2400 works of wind band music. That’s 347 hours of amazingly compelling classical music with a portion of light jazz added. All from music expressed with the very air we breathe. The music of wind bands. It’s our specialty and why we call Wind & Rhythm "the gathering place for people who love band music".

Strike Up the Band Overture: George Gershwin
  North Texas Wind Symphony,
  Eugene Migliaro Corporon
For A New Day: Samuel Magrill
  Central Oklahoma Wind Symphony, Brian Lamb
Fiesta!: Philip Sparke
  Musashino Academia Musicae Wind Ensemble,
  Ray Cramer
Celebration Overture: Paul Creston
  US Air Force Band, Lowell Graham
American Overture for Band: Joseph Wilcox Jenkins
  US Army Field Band, Colonel Finley R. Hamilton
New Era: Overture for Band: Bruce Broughton
  US Air Force Academy Band, Lt Col Larry Lang
Jubilee Overture: Philip Sparke
  US Army Band, Col L. Bryan Shelburne Jr.
Beguine for Band: Glenn Osser
​  Dallas Wind Symphony, Frederick Fennell