JMU Wind Symphony Videos
Notable Pieces
2021-2022
“Festive Overture” - Dmitri Shostakovich/Hunsberger
“Fantasy Variations on a Theme by Paganini” - James Barnes
“Autumn Walk” - Julian Work
“Roma” - Valerie Coleman
“Out to Sea and The Shark Cage Fugue” - John Williams/Bocook
“Harry’s Wondrous World” - John Williams/Lavender
“Sensemayá” - Silvestre Revaultas/Bencriscutto
“Red Sky” (Trombone Concerto) - Anthony Barfield [Dr. Andrew Lankford, faculty trombone soloist]
“Circuits” - Cindy McTee
“Duende” - Luis Serrano Alarcón
Symphonic Band
“Mother Earth: A Fanfare” - David Maslanka
“Honey in the Rock” - Donald Grantham
“Molly on the Shore” - Percy Grainger
“Paris Sketches” - Martin Ellerby
Wind Symphony
“Bum’s Rush” - Donald Grantham
“Symphony No. IV: Bookmarks from Japan” - Julie Giroux
Sinfonía No. 3 “La Salsa” I. Tumbao - Roberto Sierra/Scatterday
“Variations on America” - Ives/Schuman/Rhoads
“Andante and Hungarian Rondo” - Carl Maria von Weber/R. Mark Rogers [Dr. Sue Barber, faculty bassoon soloist]
“Sweet Chariot” - Carlos Simon
“Carmina Burana” - Carl Orff/Krance
Symphonic Band
"Safety, A Fluttered Heart" - Joe Jaxson (World Premiere/JMU Student Composer)
"Saturn Returns" - Michael Markowski, Guest Composer [Amy Birdsong, guest conductor]
Wind Symphony
"City Trees" - Michael Markowski, Guest Composer
"Distant Mountains" - Jack Yagerline (World Premiere/JMU Student Composer)
"Matsuri" - Eric Guinivan, Faculty Composer (World Premiere, 2022 Walter Beeler Memorial Prize Winner)
- I. Fireworks at Ryogoku Bridge
- II. Bells on New Year's Eve
- III. The Burning of Mount Wakakusa
2020-2021
2019-2020
"Urban Requiem" for Sax Quartet & Wind Ensemble" - Michael Colgrass
"Shanghai Overture" - Bright Sheng
"Catfish Row" (music of Porgy and Bess) - Gershwin/Hunsburger
Dr. Sonya Baker, soprano & Michael Richardson, baritone [starts at 37:50]
"Postcard" - Frank Ticheli
"Caboclo (Flute Concerto)" - Jess Langston Turner
Dr. Beth Chandler Cahill, flute
"Ecstatic Waters" - Steven Bryant
"The Wild Goose" - Ryan George
"Come Sunday" - Omar Thomas
2018-2019
2017-2018
2016-2017
Maslanka's Remarks at 22:45 & 1:12:10
Symphonic Band - "Give Us This Day" (28:10)
Wind Symphony - "A Child's Garden of Dreams" (1:18:20)