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!