Episode 455: The Gathering Place at Thanksgiving

The hymn “We Gather Together” was written in 1597 to celebrate the Dutch victory over the Spanish in a war of national liberation against the King of Spain who forbade Dutch Protestants the right to gather for worship. It is now popularly associated with Thanksgiving Day in America and is often sung at family meals and religious services on that day.

Wind & Rhythm uses the spirit of this freedom to express all viewpoints in its slogan, "the gathering place for people who love band music" to invite all music lovers to share in the wonderful wind band community spirit.

Turkey Trot from “Divertimento”
  Leonard Bernstein
  North Texas Wind Symphony, Eugene Migliaro Corporon
Autumn Dream
  Archibald Joyce
  US Coast Guard Band, Commander W. Kenneth Megan
Harvest Hymn
  Percy Grainger
  North Texas Wind Symphony, Eugene Migliaro Corporon
We Gather Together
  Eduard Kremser
  Hollywood Epic Brass, Kevin Kaska
Concerto Breve "The Wondrous Valley"
  Joesph Wilcox Jenkins
  US Military Academy Band at West Point,
​  Lieutenant Colonel Timothy J. Holtan
Autumn in New York
  Vernon Duke
  Tubas Unlimited, R. Winston Morris
Thanksgiving Hymn
  William Billings
  Eastern Wind Symphony, William Silvester
Yosemite Autumn
  Mark Camphouse
  US Air Force Heritage of America Band, Major Douglas Monroe
Simple Gifts: Four Shaker Songs
  Frank Ticheli
  University of Kansas Wind Ensemble, Paul W. Popiel