The Los Alamos Community Winds performing Oct. 11 at Evening of Arts and Culture selections from its upcoming concert scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19 at Crossroads Bible Church. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
COMMUNITY News:
The Los Alamos Community Winds season opener is a little of this and a little of that. The Fall Concert is 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19 at Crossroads Bible Church.
In celebration of its 20th season, LACW will perform several favorites from past concerts including ‘E.T. – Adventures on Earth’ by John Williams, as well as first time performances of Overture to “The Pearl Fishers” by Georges Bizet.
As always the concert is free but donations are gratefully accepted.
For this concert, the Winds and its audience will join thousands of music lovers on every continent, ringing the world with a musical affirmation of the oneness of humankind.
This performance is part of the 15th Annual Daniel Pearl World Music Days – a global network of concerts that uses the universal language of music to diminish hatred, respect differences, and reach out in global friendship.
Daniel Pearl, the journalist and musician kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan was a classically-trained violinist, as well as a fiddler and mandolin player who joined musical groups wherever he traveled. World Music Days commemorates his Oct. 10 birthday and carries on his mission of connecting diverse people through words and music.
The concert opens with John Philip Sousa’s Comrades of the Legion (1920).
“Sousa was enthusiastic about the American Legion because it promoted 100 percent Americanism and because it was a veteran’s group,” Winds Musical Director and Conductor Ted Vives wrote in the program notes.
Dmitri Kabalevsky’s Overture to Colas Breugnon (1938) is a four-movement suite extracted from the opera.
“This work hits many of the highlights of the opera, and is a true tour de force for any wind ensemble or concert band clocking in at nearly 25 minutes duration,” Vives wrote.
The Winds will perform Georges Bizet’s Overture to The Pearl Fishers (1863). Those who attended the Santa Fe Opera performance is summer will remember the story of how two men’s vow of eternal friendship is threatened by their love for the same woman. Lucien Cailliet has interwoven several parts.
Composed for orchestra, A Trumpeter’s Lullaby by Leroy Anderson was completed Sept. 22, 1949. It was first performed May 9, 1950 at the Boston Pops with Arthur Fiedler conducting and Roger Voisin performing the solo on trumpet.
Anderson has written, “…Roger Voisin asked me why I didn’t write a trumpet solo for him to play with the orchestra that would be different from traditional trumpet solos which are all loud, martial or triumphant. After thinking it over, it occurred to me that I had never heard a lullaby for trumpet so I set out to write one…”
The final number is an audience and Winds favorite, Adventures on Earth from E.T. – The Extra -Terrestrial (1982) by John Williams. This selection is taken from the final few minutes of the film.
The Los Alamos Community Winds is under the direction of Vives, now in his 20th season as musical and artistic director for the Award-Winning concert band. He also is the music director for the White Mountain Symphony Orchestra in Show Low, Ariz.
Coming up next is the popular Winds Christmas Concert, 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7 at Crossroads Bible Church.
Winds Musical Director and Conductor Ted Vives, baton in hand. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
