Wind & Rhythm

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We're the gathering place for people who love band music.

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When we claim to be "the gathering place for people who love band music," we're talking about a group of over 38 million people in the US alone. In America, hearing classical music "live" usually means hearing it at a band concert. We love marches and the music of Holst and Vaughan Williams, but the repertoire for winds is formidable. And the culture of wind music is vibrant, including people of all ages!


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If you’re one of the 40 million Americans who have played in a band, you’ll remember the competition to sit in 1st chair. Or, to move up in the sec...

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
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For a composer who could truthfully refer to three continents as home, Percy Grainger made music in a very energetic manner. His walking tours were...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
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What are you looking at right now? Does what you see make any change in what things sound like? As your mind sifts all of the sensory input it rece...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
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Composers seem to sense energy and inspiration in nature. They find inspiration while most of us are blithely carrying on with our perceptions of, ...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
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Ubiquitous... that is what it is. Canadians, people from Holland and Japan all love sweet things as much as we do here in the US. I understand that...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
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I wonder if the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk would have suggested that flying is the safest way to travel. And yet, all the way back to Greek myth...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
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It’s no surprise. When you want to celebrate a big event it is normal that the ensemble of choice is a wind band. All of our patriotic and many of ...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
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We’ve got a whole hour of music on this episode of Wind & Rhythm about Scotland and not one of the composers is Scottish. On top of that, the music...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
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When a new CD arrived recently, I noticed that one of the selections was a Divertimento based on a work by Persichetti which was also a divertiment...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
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Many people who like our program, Wind & Rhythm, would almost rather play music than actually listen to a program about it. It gets a little compli...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2013
  • Length: 58:30