Triangle Wind Ensemble
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    • Latin Landscapes - April 16, 2023
    • The Music of John Williams - May 28, 2023
    • Past Concerts >
      • The Snowman - December 11, 2022 >
        • TWE Concert Program — December 11, 2022
      • Come Sunday - November 13, 2022 >
        • Come Sunday Concert Program
      • 2021-2022 Concert Season >
        • An American Celebration - The Music of Disney - May 29, 2022 >
          • TWE Concert Program - May 29, 2022
        • Voices - March 27, 2022 >
          • Voices Concert Program
        • The Snowman - December 12, 2021 >
          • The Snowman Concert Program
        • NCMEA Performance - November 7, 2021 >
          • NCMEA Concert Program
      • 2020-2021 Concert Season >
        • An American Celebration - Back in Action- May 30, 2021 >
          • Program Notes — Back in Action
      • 2019-2020 Concert Season >
        • An American Celebration - The Music of Disney - May 24, 2020
        • Voices - April 4, 2020
        • Around the World - February 16, 2020
        • The Snowman - December 15, 2019
        • Across the Divide at Campbell University - November 19, 2019
        • Across the Divide - November 23, 2019
      • 2018-2019 Concert Season >
        • Masks and Machines - November 9, 2018
        • Music For a Lifetime - March 19, 2019
        • Sheltering Sky - 20th Anniversary Concert - April 13, 2019
        • An American Celebration Through Time & Space - May 26, 2019
      • 2017-2018 Concert Season >
        • An American Celebration Salute to the Cinema - May 27, 2018
        • Spanish Spring / Primavera Español - April 14, 2018
        • Music for a Lifetime - March 15, 2018
        • 'Tis the Season - December 11, 2017
        • SOS! Surprising Overtures and Symphonies - November 18, 2017
      • 2016-2017 Concert Season >
        • An American Celebration - May 28, 2017
        • Tradewinds - April 23, 2017
        • Music in Motion - January 28, 2017
        • 'Tis the Season - December 10, 2016
        • Odysseys - November 12, 2016
      • 2015-2016 Concert Season >
        • Rhapsody in Red, White, and Blue - May 29, 2016
        • Poetry In Motion - April 9, 2016
        • Music for a Lifetime - March 11, 2016
        • 'Tis the Season - December 11, 2015
        • Wanderlust - November 21, 2015
      • 2014-2015 Concert Season >
        • Pops in the Park - June 12, 2015
        • An American Celebration - At the Movies - May 24, 2015
        • Symphonies for Winds - April 11, 2015
        • Build-A-Band - February 8, 2015
        • 'Tis The Season - December 12, 2014
        • Luminescence - November 1, 2014
      • 2013-2014 Concert Season >
        • Pops in the Park - June 13, 2014
        • An American Celebration - May 25, 2014
        • Latin Landscapes - April 27, 2014
        • Music for a Lifetime - March 25, 2014
        • Invitation to the Dance(s) - February 11, 2014
        • Happy Holidays - December 15, 2013
        • Shout For Joy - November 15, 2013
      • An American Celebration 2013
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Sheltering Sky Animation Project

In 1940, Disney made the world of orchestral music more accessible to audiences with the release of their wonderful animated film, Fantasia. Images of enchanted broomsticks laboring to Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice, hippopotami in tutus pirouetting to Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, and dinosaurs lumbering to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring have helped engage audiences for generations.

In celebration of our 20th Anniversary season, the Triangle Wind Ensemble undertook a similar project, this time using an original piece of wind band music as the source material. The composition we selected, Sheltering Sky, is a beautiful piece by one of the most popular and talented wind band composers writing today, John Mackey. To create the animation, TWE commissioned NC State University Associate Professor of Art + Design, Marc Russo, to develop a story and animation to match Mackey's music as well as Disney's centaurs do Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony.

The final Sheltering Sky animation premiered at TWE's 20th Anniversary Concert on April 13, 2019 in the Cary Arts Center in Cary, NC. The Triangle Wind Ensemble performed Mackey's music live while the film was projected onto the stage's screen.

This animation is now available to the wind band community as a whole so that their ensembles and audiences can share in the experience that is this Sheltering Sky Project. K-12 school band programs across the country and world will have access to the film for free. For more information about screening the Sheltering Sky animation during your group's performance, please visit our Sheltering Sky Licensing Information page.

Our Sheltering Sky Animation project was featured on UNC-TV's arts show, MUSE.
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Screening List

We are truly grateful to all the wind bands out there who have shared our animation with their audiences. Here is a list of those past and upcoming screenings.
  • Salem Symphonic Winds — Salem, OR
  • USC High School — Pittsburgh, PA
  • Stillwater High School — Stillwater, MN
  • Mountain House High School — Tracy, CA
  • Green Level High School — Cary, NC
  • Prince Avenue Christian School — Bogart, GA
  • Uniao Filarmonic Do Troviscal — Troviscal Portugal
  • Geneva High School — Geneva, NY
  • Seranno High School — Phelan, CA
  • Xavier University — Cincinnati, OH
  • UC Davis — Davis, CA
  • Omaha Symphonic Winds — Omaha, NE
  • Killingly High School — Dayville, CT
  • University of Minnesota, Morris — Morris, MN
  • Providence College — Providence, RI
  • Urbana High School — Ijamsville, MD
  • Hitchcock ISD — Hitchcock, TX
  • Southern Cayuga School — Aurora, NY
  • Marshfield High School — Marshfield, MO
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PO Box 701
​Cary, NC 27512

919.960.1893
​info@trianglewind.org
  • Home
  • About Us
    • What is a Wind Ensemble?
    • TWE in the Time of COVID
    • Photos
  • Concerts
    • Latin Landscapes - April 16, 2023
    • The Music of John Williams - May 28, 2023
    • Past Concerts >
      • The Snowman - December 11, 2022 >
        • TWE Concert Program — December 11, 2022
      • Come Sunday - November 13, 2022 >
        • Come Sunday Concert Program
      • 2021-2022 Concert Season >
        • An American Celebration - The Music of Disney - May 29, 2022 >
          • TWE Concert Program - May 29, 2022
        • Voices - March 27, 2022 >
          • Voices Concert Program
        • The Snowman - December 12, 2021 >
          • The Snowman Concert Program
        • NCMEA Performance - November 7, 2021 >
          • NCMEA Concert Program
      • 2020-2021 Concert Season >
        • An American Celebration - Back in Action- May 30, 2021 >
          • Program Notes — Back in Action
      • 2019-2020 Concert Season >
        • An American Celebration - The Music of Disney - May 24, 2020
        • Voices - April 4, 2020
        • Around the World - February 16, 2020
        • The Snowman - December 15, 2019
        • Across the Divide at Campbell University - November 19, 2019
        • Across the Divide - November 23, 2019
      • 2018-2019 Concert Season >
        • Masks and Machines - November 9, 2018
        • Music For a Lifetime - March 19, 2019
        • Sheltering Sky - 20th Anniversary Concert - April 13, 2019
        • An American Celebration Through Time & Space - May 26, 2019
      • 2017-2018 Concert Season >
        • An American Celebration Salute to the Cinema - May 27, 2018
        • Spanish Spring / Primavera Español - April 14, 2018
        • Music for a Lifetime - March 15, 2018
        • 'Tis the Season - December 11, 2017
        • SOS! Surprising Overtures and Symphonies - November 18, 2017
      • 2016-2017 Concert Season >
        • An American Celebration - May 28, 2017
        • Tradewinds - April 23, 2017
        • Music in Motion - January 28, 2017
        • 'Tis the Season - December 10, 2016
        • Odysseys - November 12, 2016
      • 2015-2016 Concert Season >
        • Rhapsody in Red, White, and Blue - May 29, 2016
        • Poetry In Motion - April 9, 2016
        • Music for a Lifetime - March 11, 2016
        • 'Tis the Season - December 11, 2015
        • Wanderlust - November 21, 2015
      • 2014-2015 Concert Season >
        • Pops in the Park - June 12, 2015
        • An American Celebration - At the Movies - May 24, 2015
        • Symphonies for Winds - April 11, 2015
        • Build-A-Band - February 8, 2015
        • 'Tis The Season - December 12, 2014
        • Luminescence - November 1, 2014
      • 2013-2014 Concert Season >
        • Pops in the Park - June 13, 2014
        • An American Celebration - May 25, 2014
        • Latin Landscapes - April 27, 2014
        • Music for a Lifetime - March 25, 2014
        • Invitation to the Dance(s) - February 11, 2014
        • Happy Holidays - December 15, 2013
        • Shout For Joy - November 15, 2013
      • An American Celebration 2013
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  • Sheltering Sky Animation
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