We’ll be continuing our 2024-2025 season “Musical Mastery” with a program of American composers and a song featuring our trombone section.
- The concert will commence with our national anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key.
- Philadelphia native Joseph Wilcox Jenkins wrote American Overture for the Army Field Band to showcase their amazing horn section.
- Roger Cichy’s Divertimento for Winds and Percussion is a tribute to the great American composers Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, and George Gershwin (Two of whom also have pieces featured in tonight’s concert).
- Sweet Trombone Rag was composed by Dansville, NY native Al Sweet. This song will feature the Northwest Wind Symphony’s outstanding trombone section.
- Cincinnati native Henry Fillmore, famous for being one of the most prolific band composers ever, dedicated His Honor march to then mayor of Cincinnati, Russell Wilson.
- Chester Overture by William Schuman is based off of an anthem sung by Continental soldiers around their campfires during the Revolutionary War.
- Leonard Bernstein’s Slava! was commissioned in honor of Mstislav Rostropovich to celebrate him being appointed director of Washington DC’s National Symphony Orchestra.
- Aaron Copland composed Grover’s Corner as part of the music for the film adaptation of the well-known play “Our Town”.
- Alfred Reed’s arrangement of Selections from The Music Man by Meredith Wilson includes popular numbers like The Wells Fargo Wagon, Till There Was You, and Seventy-Six Trombones.
The show starts at 7 p.m. on January 18, 2025, at Corbet Theatre in Centralia. $12 general admission. Students free with paying adult.