Metropolitan Wind Symphony

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Founded by Jerry Gardner in 1971, the Metropolitan Wind Symphony comprises over 70 talented woodwind, brass, and percussion instrumentalists who audition for membership and seating. It makes a significant contribution to the cultural life of the Greater Boston community by providing its audiences with high quality concerts and its members with opportunities for musical growth.

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  1. Episode 12: Spring Concert 2013 "A World Premiere and a Brilliant Soloist!"

    2013. 04. 24.

    Episode 12: Spring Concert 2013 "A World Premiere and a Brilliant Soloist!"

    The Metropolitan WInd Symphony, Lewis J. Buckley, Conductor and Music Director This is a podcast preview of our next concert, which will be on Sunday, May 5 2013 at 2:00 pm in Lexington MA, in Cary Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Avenue. The Music Director will give a pre-concert talk at 1:30, in which the Matthew LaRocca, the composer of the piece to receive its world premiere, will join him. The concert will feature the brand new work Arctic Voices, by LaRocca; an appearance by 12-year-old trumpet wunderkind Geoffrey Gallante (performing a work written by Buckley); and works by Ticheli, Grainger, Gordon Jacob, film composer Rossano Galante, and Robert Sheldon. This podcast includes brief interesting discussion about and excerpts from the pieces on the program, all narrated by Buckley. Enjoy!

    14분
  2. Episode 11: Winter Concert 2013, "Giannini's Great Symphony"

    2013. 02. 27.

    Episode 11: Winter Concert 2013, "Giannini's Great Symphony"

    The Metropolitan Wind Symphony, Lewis J. Buckley Conductor and Music Director This concert by the Metropolitan Wind Symphony will take place on Sunday, March 3, 2013 in Lexington MA, in Carey Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Avenue, at 2:00 pm. There will be a pre-concert talk by the Music Director at 1:30. The concert will feature Vittorio Giannini's famed Symphony No. 3 for concert band, one of the great wind works of the 20th century. Additional works will include: Shocker's beautiful Green Places for solo flute; Boysen's rousing (and very Irish!) Kirkpatrick Fanfare; Ive's hilarious Country Band March; Persichetti's wind classic, Masquerade; and Frank Ticheli's energetic and exciting Vesuvius. The podcast includes brief interesting discussion of and excerpts from each piece. We hope it will encourage you to come to our concert if you live near enough!

    10분

  3. 2012. 02. 18.

    Episode 10: Winter Concert 2012 "An ACB Preview Concert"

    The Metropolitan Wind Symphony, Lewis J. Buckley Conductor and Music Director This concert by the Metropolitan Wind Symphony will take place on Sunday, March 4, 2012 in Lexington MA, in Carey Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Avenue, at 2:00 pm. There will be a pre-concert talk by the Music Director at 1:30. The program will be based on a concert the MWS will perform at the annual convention of the Association of Concert Bands (ACB) in April, 2012. The program will include three major works: Percy Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy; Frank Tichelli's Blue Shades; and Mari van Gils' transcription of Gershwin's An American in Paris. Also included in the program will be: James Kessler's Hudson River Rhapsody for solo oboe and wind band, Elana Lorance, soloist; Keith Wilson's transcription of Hindemith's March from "Symphonic Metamorphosis"; Massenet's Castillane, from Ballet Music from "Le Cid"; and Eric Whitaker's October. The podcast includes brief interesting discussion of and excerpts from each piece, plus at least one interesting extra you definitely won't anticipate and almost certainly will not have heard before!

    44분

  4. 2011. 11. 08.

    Episode 9: Fall Concert 2011 "At Kitty O'Shea's"

    On Sunday afternoon, Nov. 13, 2011 at 2:00, The Metropolitan Wind Symphony will give a concert in Cary Hall in Lexington MA. Listen to our podcast for a preview of the music, interesting insights into the various selections, and specific information about the conceert.

    17분

  5. 2011. 03. 02.

    Episode 8: Winter Concert 2011 "Major Wind Works"

    On March 6, at 2:00 pm, the Metropolitan Wind Symphony will present "Major Wind Works". You'll hear music by Vaughan Williams, Copland, Gandolfi, Whitacre, Robert Russell Bennett, and others. We will present a world premiere of Kevin Wilt's Fanfare for Winds; and perhaps best of all, Frank Battisti, Conductor Emeritus of the New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble, will be our guest conductor. This will be a wonderful concert—don't miss it! But in case you have to, here's a taste of it in our "Major Wind Works" podcast.

    12분

  6. 2010. 05. 13.

    Episode 7: Spring Concert 2010 "Lots of Guests"

    Concert Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 2:00 pm (pre-concert talk at 1:30) Location: National Heritage Museum, 33 Marrett Road, Lexington MA This concert will feature a world premiere performance of Conductor Lewis J. Buckley's Capriccio, commissioned by the Metropolitan Wind Symphony to honor two previous Acting Music Directors, Robert Franzblau and James O'Dell. Their primary instruments being trumpet and tuba, Capriccio is a piece for solo trumpet and tuba with wind band; Rob will conduct, and Jim will play the tuba solo, joined by trumpet soloist Joseph Foley. For additional information (and a sneak preview of the new work), listen to our podcast!

    11분

  7. 2010. 02. 28.

    Episode 6: Winter 2010 "Conductor's Favorites"

    Preview Podcast for Metropolitan Wind Symphony concert on Sunday, March 7 2010 at 2 PM, Lexington MA.

    13분

  8. 2009. 03. 06.

    MWS Podcast 5 - Concert March 09

    This is a narrated concert preview of a program to be presented by the Metropolitan Wind Symphony on Sunday, March 8, 2009, at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, MA. The narration speaks to the music that will be performed, and nearly all of the musical examples were recorded during the rehearsal cycle for the concert.

    11분

  9. 2008. 10. 31.

    MWS Podcast 4 - Concert Preview Nov 08

    Metropolitan Wind Symphony - Podcast Preview of concert to be performed in Lexington MA at the National Heritage Museum, 33 Marrett Street, on Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:00 pm. Music Director Lewis J. Buckley narrates, with recorded excerpts from the concert program.

    7분

  10. 2008. 02. 25.

    MWS Episode 3, February 25, 2008

    Lori Huberman, member of the MWS flute section, will be the groups first member soloist under the direction of Lewis Buckley. This episode is a short interview with Lori and Lew about her solo, and the rest of the program, that the Metropolitan Wind Symphony will present on March 2, 2008, at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Massachusetts.

    4분

  11. 2007. 11. 27.

    Episode 2, November 18, 2007

    "From The Podium" is a regularly occuring lecture happening before each Metropolitan Wind Symphony concert. In this talk Lewis Buckley answers his own question "Do They Really Need a Conductor?"

    23분
  12. MWS Episode 1 2007-10-18

    2007. 10. 19.

    MWS Episode 1 2007-10-18

    A five minute talk show with Lewis J. Buckley, the new Music Director and conductor of the Metropolitan Wind Symphony.

    5분
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Founded by Jerry Gardner in 1971, the Metropolitan Wind Symphony comprises over 70 talented woodwind, brass, and percussion instrumentalists who audition for membership and seating. It makes a significant contribution to the cultural life of the Greater Boston community by providing its audiences with high quality concerts and its members with opportunities for musical growth.

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