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RE: Wind Ensembles

Author: Kim
Date: 2000-01-21 23:40

Some Wind Ensembles are already extremely famous. One of these such ensembles are the Dallas Wind Symphony. I love their music and their conductor is world renowned. I don't know any of the musicians names, but sometimes the wind ensembles have professional musicians(Charles Niedich, etc) come play with them.

Wind Ensembles are well-known for playing great orchestral transcriptions. For the fall semester, the wind ensemble I'm in did an arrangement of Carmina Burana with our school's choir.

Sometimes it's not who's in the band, but how they play it. We played and sung this piece with power. Any other orchestra could have done exactly what we did.

I don't think that any ensemble should be judged on the "principal" player, but as a whole. After all, what's in the wind ensemble, or the orchestra. It's not just the principal clarinet player that's playing the part. Sure there are solos, but any works solos aren't the whole of the piece. We can talk about one clarinet player, or we can talk about how great that symphony orchestra sounded at that concert. I'd rather judge on that than one player.

For example, the symphonic band in my school has had narrators, and let me tell you, the music was far better than the narrator! (Not because the narration was boring)

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