Upcoming Concert: Celebrating TWE's 25th Anniversary
Maslanka Symphony No. 4
When we asked our members which composition they most wanted to perform in celebration of our 25th Season, there was one piece which stood out among the rest. David Maslanka's monumental Symphony No. 4 was the clear favorite. As the composer described it, "The central driving force is the spontaneous rise of the impulse to shout for the joy of life. I feel it is the powerful voice of the Earth that comes to me from my adopted western Montana, and the high plains and mountains of central Idaho. My personal experience of the voice is one of being helpless and torn open by the power of the thing that wants to be expressed – the welling-up shout that cannot be denied. I am set aquiver and am forced to shout and sing. The response in the voice of the Earth is the answering shout of thanksgiving, and the shout of praise."
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This concert will also feature the world premiere of a newly commissioned animation by NCSU professor Marc Russo. Similar to what we did with Sheltering Sky back in 2019, we wanted to commission another animation that would engage audiences by accompanying a piece of wind band music that is easily accessible by middle school level bands. For this animation, we selected Shadows Unleashed by Brian Balmages. After this world premiere, we will make the animation available to school bands worldwide for screening at their own concerts.
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2025-26 Season Schedule
Our 2025-26 Season concert lineup is set! We hope to see you at the following concerts...
2025-26 Season Sponsorships
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TWE is grateful for every sponsor who enables us to create outstanding musical experiences in the Triangle.
Please consider signing up now to be a Season Sponsor for our 2025-26 season, during which we celebrate our 25th Anniversary. Without our Season Sponsors, we simply couldn't do what we do. Season Sponsors receive numerous perks, including complementary tickets to concerts, and our true appreciation! Business Sponsorship options are available as well, allowing for businesses to place ads in our concert program. |
In Memoriam: TWE Founder Dan Squillace
While many people played a part in getting TWE to our first downbeat 25+ years ago, the driving force leading those efforts was provided by Dan Squillace, who we are sorry to learn has recently passed on. Dan's work founding TWE all those years ago is greatly appreciated by our current musicians, and we look forward to continuing to build and grow our organization on the solid foundation that he laid. Thank you, Dan!
We invite you to take a listen to a little history of TWE, as presented by Dan at one of our concerts back in 1999.
We invite you to take a listen to a little history of TWE, as presented by Dan at one of our concerts back in 1999.
TWE Animation Projects
©2020 Marc Russo
While many groups commission compositions for milestone anniversaries, TWE decided to take a different approach for our 20th and 25th Seasons. We instead chose to give ourselves, and the wind band community as a whole, the present of an original Fantasia-like animation specifically created to accompany an already existing piece of wind band music. For our 20th Anniversary, we chose John Mackey's beautiful composition Sheltering Sky as the musical selection. We premiered this animation at our concert on April 13, 2019 and received a wonderful reception from our audience.
It was so good a reception, in fact, that we decided to commission a sequel to the project for our 25th anniversary. For this sequel, we chose Shadows Unleashed by Brian Balmages. That animation will be premiered on April 26, 2026 at the Cary Arts Center.
We hope that this gift will help engage audiences across the globe, because the animation is now available for use by concert bands and wind ensembles worldwide, who may obtain a license to screen the animation during their own performance of Sheltering Sky.
Visit our Animation Projects page for more information.
It was so good a reception, in fact, that we decided to commission a sequel to the project for our 25th anniversary. For this sequel, we chose Shadows Unleashed by Brian Balmages. That animation will be premiered on April 26, 2026 at the Cary Arts Center.
We hope that this gift will help engage audiences across the globe, because the animation is now available for use by concert bands and wind ensembles worldwide, who may obtain a license to screen the animation during their own performance of Sheltering Sky.
Visit our Animation Projects page for more information.
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