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unusual facts about wind band



Aotearoa

The Land of the Long White Cloud "Aotearoa" is a piece composed by Philip Sparke for brass band or wind band.

Prométhée

The first performance at Arènes de Béziers on 27 August 1900 involved almost 800 performers (including two wind bands and 15 harps) and was watched by an audience of 10,000.


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A Life for the Tsar

Another excerpt, also used by concert bands and military bands is the Slavsya finale arranged for wind band as a fanfare, famous due to its use in the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945 and in other military parades since then.

Alfred Reed

Many of Reed's wind band compositions have been released as CD recordings by the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra.

Ensemble La Fenice

Ensemble La Fenice is a period wind band based in the town of Auxerre in the Burgundy region of France.

History of wind band

Schoenberg, Milhaud, Goldman, H. Owen Reed, Hindemith, Vincent Persichetti, and Morton Gould are all composers who came into their own during this time as composers of wind band music, and helped to foster a core of repertoire that would be performed for generations to come.

Mountlake Terrace High School

The top wind band, Chamber Winds, performs at music festivals, such as the University of Washington Music festival and Central Washington University's music festival, and also has gone on European tours.

Stanah Community Primary School

Jazz musician Dan Forshaw attended the school from 1988 to 1992, and it was in the school wind band that he first picked up his instrument.