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The spring concert Modern Masterpieces for Wind Ensemble will be sure to change your thinking about concert band music forever. This concert will highlight music by some of the great composers of today, including Frank Ticceli and Eric Whitacre. Playing with sound, provoking visual images by creating soundscapes and exploring tone colour through instrumentation and percussion are a few of the exciting elements that tie the music in this program together.
Some of the pieces, including the large work named Angels in the Architecture, will be translated into visual art during the performance, by three local artists.
Soprano Sara Douglas will sing the haunting vocal lines in this fascinating piece. Concert bands are no longer relegated to militaristic and fanfare functions, and are now a serious medium for composers to use for full musical expression. Feel free to bring your own sketch-book and be inspired!
The spring concert they are working on will be sure to change your thinking about concert band music forever.— Janice Brunson —Conductor
The Band is in final rehearsals at the Highland centre with Conductor Janice Brunson who says “The spring concert they are working on will be sure to change your thinking about concert band music forever.” This performance includes Soprano Sara Douglas, and visual artists Donna Swain and Paula O’Brien. It will be held Saturday April 27, at 7 pm, at the Sechelt Indian Band Hall.
Tickets are available at Laedeli, Gaia’s, Strait Music, and Bluewater Books. Call 604-741-9807 for more information
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