Past Concert Programs: 2011 to 2016

2011/2012 Season

Winds and Songs
Sun, Nov 6, 2011, 3pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo
Sun, Nov 13, 2011, 3pm - Grandview Baptist Church, Waterloo
Conductor: Daniel Warren
Laura Pudwell - Mezzo-Soprano
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Overtures to Bernstein’s Candide and Wagner’s Die Meistersinger and Herberman’s The Fisher Who Died in his Bed, Reed’s Hounds of Spring, Cable’s The Banks of Newfoundland, and Bolden’s 1828 St. John Overture. Mezzo Laura Pudwell joins the Winds for Four Early Songs by Alban Berg and Grub Street by Michael Purves-Smith.

A Christmas with the Winds and Young Voices
Sun, Dec 18, 2011, 3pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo
Conductor: Daniel Warren
Inter-Mennoite Children's Choir
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Join with us and enjoy music of the Christmas Season performed by the Inter-Mennonite Children’s Choir and the Winds including Bell’s Magnificat and Rutter’s What Sweeter Music. Also The Cremation of Sam McGee by Michael Purves-Smith, Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus by Dave Arthur, Selections from The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky and A Christmas Festival by Anderson. This concert will help raise funds for the Mennonite Central Committee.

Winds Around the World
Sun, Feb 12, 2012, 3pm - Grandview Baptist Church, Waterloo
Sun, Feb 26, 2012, 3pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo
Conductor: Daniel Warren
Olena Klyucharova - Piano
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Music from international composers including Dukas’ Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Milhaud’s Suite Francaise from France, Gassi’s Tsunami from Canada, Swearingen’s In All Its Glory from the United States, and Marquez’ Danzon #2 from Mexico. Olena Klyucharova will perform Prokofiev’s poetic and brilliant Piano Concerto No. 1 in this new transcription for piano and wind orchestra by Douglas McLain.

Gandalf Meets Godzilla
Sun, Apr 29, 2012, 3pm - Grandview Baptist Church, Waterloo
Sun, May 6, 2012, 3pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo
Conductor: Daniel Warren
Jon Monkhouse - Trombone
Jim Edwards - Eulphonium
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Our season finale moves from the sublime to the ridiculous and back with John Barnes Chance’s Incantation and Dance, Eric Whitacre’s Godzilla Eats Las Vegas, and Johan de Meij’s five movement Symphony No. 1 “Lord of the Rings”. John Monkhouse will perform Arthur Pryor’s Blue Bells of Scotland and Jim Edwards will perform John Hartmann’s La Belle Americaine.

2012/2013 Season

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The Brits are Coming
Sun, Oct 14, 2012, 3pm - Grandview Baptist Church, Kitchener
Sun, Oct 28, 2012 , 3pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo
Danniel Warren - Conductor
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Music from Britain in the Diamond Jubilee year including Walton’s Crown Imperial, Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance No. 4, Arnold’s Four Scottish Dances, Haydn Wood’s Mannin Veen, Jacob’s William Byrd Suite, Sir Henry Wood’s Fantasia on British Sea Songs, Philip Sparke’s Year of the Dragon and Leroy Anderson’s Irish Washerwoman.

Bringing in the Christmas Season
Sun, Dec 2, 2012, 3pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo
Kevin Ramessar – Guitar
Daniel Warren – Conductor
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Guitarist Kevin Ramessar will join the Winds for some traditional and seasonal favourites. The Winds selections will include Vaughan-Williams’ Greensleeves, Bach’s Wachet Auf, Holst’s In the Bleak Mid-winter, Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, Curnow’s Christmas Fancies, Prokofiev’s Troika, and Holst’s Christmas Day for Brass.

Great Cities
Sun, Feb 3, 2013, 3pm - Grandview Baptist Church, Kitchener
Sun, Feb 10, 2013, 3pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo

Daniel Lichti – Bass-baritone
Daniel Warren – Conductor
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Music evocative of some of the great cities of the world including Husa’s Music for Prague, Wagner’s Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla, R. Strauss’ Festmusik der Stadt Wien, Dello Joio’s Scenes from The Louvre, Linka’s Berliner Luft Marsch, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, and selections from Kander and Ebb’s musical Chicago. Daniel Lichti will perform Five Songs of Travel by Vaughan- Williams.

Joke & Riddles
Sun, Apr 14, 2013, 3pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo
Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 3pm - Grandview Baptist Church, Kitchener

WW Brass Quintet
Daniel Warren – Conductor
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Our season finale ponders pranks and puzzles with R. Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Elgar’s Enigma Variations, Ives’ The Unanswered Question, Rossini’s Scherzo for Military Band, Bach’s Fugue à la Gigue, Rauber’s Le Quatorze Juillet, and P.D.Q.Bach’s Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion.

2013/2014 Season

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Song of the Auvergne and Beyond
Sun, Oct 27, 2013 , 3pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo
Sun, Nov 3, 2013, 3pm - Grandview Baptist Church, Kitchener
Caroline Dery - Soprano
Danniel Warren - Conductor
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Music from the world of song including a Turandot Suite by Puccini, Robert Smith’s Africa: Ceremony, Song and Ritual, Claude T Smith’s Variations on an English Folk Song, and Grainger’s Colonial Song. Caroline Déry will sing a collection of Canteloube’s beautiful Chants d’Auvergne.

Joyeux Noel
Sun, Dec 15, 2013, 3pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo
Grand Philharmonic Youth Choir
Amanda Brunk – Choir Director
Daniel Warren – Conductor
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Join us and celebrate the season with some of your favourites including The Adoration of the Magi, In the Bleak Midwinter, Carol of the Bells, Wassail, Donkey Sleighride, Hallelujah Chorus, and many more. Please note: One performance only.

Shall We Dance
Sun, Feb 2, 2014, 3pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo
Sun, Feb 9, 2014, 3pm - Grandview Baptist Church, Kitchener

Larry Larson – Trumpet
Daniel Warren – Conductor
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Music from the world of dance including Robert Russell Bennett’s Suite of Old American Dances, Jacques Press’ Wedding Dance, John Zdechlik’s Chorale and Shaker Dance, Debussy’s Danse Tarantelle Styrienne, and Strauss’ The Blue Danube. Larry Larson will perform Johnny Cowell’s Concerto for Trumpet and Winds.

The Russians are Coming
Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 3pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo
Sun, Apr 27, 2014, 3pm - Grandview Baptist Church, Kitchener

Julie Strom, Mike Bronson – Mallet Percussion
Daniel Warren – Conductor
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Our season finale salutes the Winter Olympics in Sochi with an all-Russian program including Ballet Music from Prince Igor by Borodin, Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien, Khachaturian’s Gayaneh Ballet Suite No. 1, Rachmaninoff’s Italian Polka, and Prokofiev’s March from Love for Three Oranges. Julie Strom and Mike Bronson will perform Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 as a double concerto for mallet percussion.

2014/2015 Season

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Song of the Auvergne and Beyond
Sun, Oct 19, 2014, 3pm - Grandview Baptist Church, Kitchener
Sun, Oct 26, 2014 , 3pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo
Tony Snyder - French Horn
Danniel Warren - Conductor
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Music for wind ensemble by German and Austrian composers including Hindemith’s Symphony in Bb, R. Strauss’ Serenade for Winds, Weill’s Three Penny Opera Music, Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 – 2nd mvt., and Elsa’s Procession from Lohengrin by Wagner. Our own principal horn Tony Snyder will perform R. Strauss Concerto No. 1 for French Horn.

to The Sea
Sun, Nov 23, 2014, 3pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo
Mark Dubois - Tenor
Daniel Warren – Conductor
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The sea has inspired the music in this program including Nixon’s Fiesta del Pacifico, Wagner’s Flying Dutchman Overture, Vaughan Williams’ Intermezzo from Sinfonia Antartica, Gershwin’s Cuban Overture, Berlioz’s Le Corsair Overture, and Gassi’s Tsunami. Tenor Mark Dubois will perform music by Donizetti, Lalo, Strauss, and Gilbert and Sullivan. Please note: One performance only.

Music from Other Worlds
Sun, Feb 8, 2015, 3pm - Grandview Baptist Church, Kitchener
Sun, Feb 22, 2015, 3pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo

Robert Miller – Euphonium
Daniel Warren – Conductor
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Outer space is the theme with music from ET, Battlestar Galactica, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, When You Wish Upon a Star, Debussy’s Clair de Lune, Turrin’s High Flight, and Balmages’ Gravity Waves. Robert Miller will perform the Canadian premiere of Johan de Meij’s Concerto for Euphonium UFO.

Concerto for Wind Ensemble
Sun, Apr 19, 2015, 3pm - Grandview Baptist Church, Kitchener
Sun, Apr 26, 2015, 3pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo

Daniel Warren – Conductor
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Our season finale features the Winds in Dukas’ Fanfare from La Péri, Barber’s Commando March, Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Saucedo’s Full Tilt, C.T.Smith’s Danse Folatre, R. Strauss’ Dance of the Seven Veils, Revueltas’ Senzamaya, and Nine Scenes from the Ballet Cinderella by Prokofiev.

2015/2016 Season

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Currently in progress....

On the Road Again
Sun, Oct 18, 2015, 3pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo
Sun, Nov 1, 2015, 3pm - Grandview Baptist Church, Kitchener

Slide by Slide - Trombone Quartet
Keith Hagerman - Baritone
Daniel Warren – Conductor
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Travels with the Winds. Grainger’s Lincolnshire Posy, Reed’s El Camino Real, and Samuel’s Hazo Ride. Our own Keith Hagerman will perform Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer and Slide by Slide will perform Koetsier’s Concerto for Four Trombones and Wind Orchestra.

Yuletide
Sun, Dec 13, 2015, 8pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo (Note the 8pm time)

Age of Majority Singers
Nancy Kidd - Conductor
Daniel Warren – Conductor
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Music of the season including Silvestri/Bocelli’s God Bless Us, Everyone, Casting Crowns’ I heard the Bells, and many seasonal favourites for choir and band.

Remembering
Sun, Feb 7, 2016, 3pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo
Sun, Feb 21, 2016, 3pm - Grandview Baptist Church, Kitchener

Ben Bolt-Martin - Cello
Daniel Warren – Conductor
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Music that remembers including Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Ewazen’s A Hymn for the Lost and the Living, Woolfenden’s Gallimaufry based on Shakespeare’s King Henry IV, and Alford’s march The Thin Red Line. Cellist Ben Bolt-Martin performs Morawetz’s In Memoriam for Martin Luther King Jr.

Cartoons & Fantasies
Sun, Apr 17, 2016, 3pm - Grandview Baptist Church, Kitchener
Sun, Apr 24, 2016, 3pm - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo

Heidi Wall - Piano
Daniel Warren – Conductor
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Our season finale features music of pomp and parody including Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, Bach’s Toccata and Fugue, Dello Joio’s Satiric Dances, and music from The Simpsons and The Incredibles. Pianist Heidi Wall joins the Winds to perform Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

currently in progress. See Wellington Winds website: www.wellingtonwindsymphony.ca