Columbia Summer Winds had a terrific (if stormy) 2012 season! You can see a lot more about that group at the website (click the link on the name). Here’s a sketch of what we did:
FUNDRAISER! Tuesday, May 29 at 7pm at the Village Pourhouse, Amsterdam Avenue at 109th Street. We raised almost an entire concert’s worth of expenses, thanks to the many band members and other friend who came. This will definitely happen again.
Central Park Bandshell – Sat., July 28 – 1pm – RAINED OUT
Union Square – Wed., August 8 – 6pm – AWESOME
Governors Island – Sat., August 11 – 2pm – CANCELLED due to threat of rain. There was no rain within 24 hours on either side of this time.
Washington Square Park – Sat., August 18 – 2pm – AMAZING
For all of these, we played the same repertoire. Check it out here (in concert order, for the curious):
Seize the Day! (Carpe Diem) by Patrick Burns
March from Symphonic Metamorphosis by Paul Hindemith, arr. Keith Wilson
Symphony no. 3: Slavyanskaya by Boris Kozhevnikov
Variations on “America” by Charles Ives, arr. William Rhoads, based on William Schuman’s orchestration
The Wizard of Oz by Harold Arlen, arr. James Barnes
1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, arr. Mayhew Lake
The Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa
We also ran our 2nd Biennial Outdoor Composition Contest:
Winner:
A Summer Breeze – J. Scott McKenzie
Runners-Up:
Seize the Day – Noah D. Taylor
The Adventurers – Barry Milner
Finally, I attended a whole ton of conducting workshops: CU Boulder, Northwestern, and Temple. All were great!