Do you want to have your work featured by Manhattan Wind Ensemble and help us shape our identity? Submit a logo design that can take Manhattan Wind Ensemble to the next level.
Submit your entry by email to info@manhattanwindensemble.org by 11:59PM EDT on April 15, 2017.
We’re in the midst of planning our 2016-2017 season, which will be full of new and exciting performances. We start with auditions on September 8 and 9. Our fall concert will be December 14 at the Dimenna Center for Classical Music.
On May 21st Manhattan’s finest ensemble of wind musicians, under the direction of Sarah Quiroz, returns to the stage to present a program that will transport you around the world and then some, with original wind band compositions and transcriptions from nearly every corner of the earth.
So if you’ve never been to the Grand Canyon, or can’t find the time to make it to Japan, MWE’s “Around the World in 60 Minutes” is the next best thing. Possibly even the best thing!
Tickets are $12 online and $15 at the door.
The Program:
Italian in Algiers (Overture) – Rossini (arr. L. Calliet)
Sheltering Sky – John Mackey
To Walk with Wings – Julie Giroux
Sunrise at Angel’s Gate – Phillip Sparke
El salon Mexico – Aaron Copland (arr. M. Hindsley)
Solo una Volta! (Only Once) – Yasuhide Ito
New this concert!
You can purchase naming rights to individual sections of the band! The name you choose will be affixed to your section for the entirety of the 2015-2016 season, and you’ll basically be treated like minor royalty whenever we see you. (NOTE: section sponsorships do not come with a concert ticket).
We’re preparing for our December concert! Get all the information on our Event page.
After helping to grow and develop MWE into the ensemble it is today, Music Director Christopher Baum is leaving MWE at the end of the 2013-2014 season. The board is currently in the process of selecting a new music director and we look forward to announcing who will be taking on the challenge of guiding MWE into our next chapter.
Baum’s final concert as Music Director will be the MWE Spring Concert at the Dimenna Center for Classical Music on May 20, 2014. The program will consist of:
Frank Ticheli, Blue Shades
Johan De Meij, Symphony no. 1, The Lord of the Rings
I. Gandalf (The Wizard)
II. Lothlorien (The Elvenwood)
III. Gollum (Sméagol)
IV. Journey in the Dark
a. The Mines of Moria
b. The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm
V. Hobbits
