Episode 771, Unusual Instruments

On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we feature inventive and unusual pairings of instruments – at least within a wind band – like accordion, bagpipes, violin, and didgeridoo. Hear it right here, at the gathering place for people who love band music.

Fiesta Latino
  arr. MSG Paul Murtha
(after Z. Abreu, A. Piazzolla, and L. Bonfa)
  US Army Concert Band, Colonel Thomas Rotondi, Jr.
  SGM Manuel Bobenrieth, accordion
Did You Do?
  Øystein Baadsvik
  Fanfare Band of the Royal Netherlands Army
  Mounted Regiments, Tijmen Botma
  Øystein Baadsvik, didgeridoo
Llava Tierra [Earth Key]
  Tom Miller
  Interlochen Arts Academy Percussion Ensemble    
Bonecas de Chuva [Rain Doll]:
Concerto for Acoustic Guitar &
Symphonic Woodwind Ensemble
  Andreia Pinto-Correia
  New England Conservatory Symphonic Winds,
  William Drury
  Céili Connors, guitar
Third Movement of Concerto For Bagpipes
And Jazz Orchestra
  Dick Lee
  Hamish Moore, pipes & Dick Lee, sax    
Ladder To The Moon
1. Night, New York; 2. Looking Up
  Michael Daugherty    
  Frost Wind Ensemble of the University of Miami,
​  Gary Green
  Glenn Basham, violin