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      • Voices - April 26, 2025 >
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      • Music for a Lifetime - February 20, 2025
      • The Snowman & Other Holiday Favorites - December 15, 2024 >
        • The Snowman 2024 Concert Program
      • Masquerade - November 17, 2024 >
        • Masquerade Concert Program
      • 2023-2024 Concert Season >
        • The Music of John Williams - May 26, 2024 >
          • The Music of John Williams 2024 Concert Program
        • Lightscapes - April 28, 2024 >
          • Lightscapes Concert Program
        • Music in Motion - February 11, 2024 >
          • Music in Motion Concert Program
        • The Snowman - December 10, 2023 >
          • The Snowman Concert Program
        • Soundscapes - November 12, 2023 >
          • Soundscapes Concert Program
      • 2022-2023 Concert Season >
        • The Music of John Williams - May 28, 2023
        • Latin Landscapes - April 16, 2023 >
          • Latin Landscapes Concert Program
        • 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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The Snowman December 11, 2022 Cary Arts Center

Program Notes

Wiener Philharmoniker Fanfare — Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) is best known for his work in two major genres: the tone poem and opera. Written in 1924, Strauss' Fanfare fur die Wiener Philharmoniker was written for the Vienna Philharmonic's first Benefit Ball to benefit the musicians' pension fund.  The work has since been performed every year at the Philharmonic's annual ball. 

​Arr. Wil van der Beek
Splinter — Holly Harrison
Holly Harrison is a young Australian composer whose music is driven by the nonsense literature of Lewis Carroll, embracing stylistic juxtapositions, the visceral energy of rock, and whimsical humor. She has been the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra's composer in residence from 2020-22 and is curently composer in residence for the ASME National Young Composer Project.  The title of this work, "Splinter" refers to the way in which the piece is structured as a type of mosaic or stylistic patchwork.  Many sections of the piece feature instrument sounds breaking or distorting in some way.  Another meaning of 'splinter' is as a foreign object within the body.  This acts as a metaphor for Harrison's experimentation with some lighter, delicate moments, which are not always part of her musical soundscape.
A Somerset Rhapsody — Gustav Holst
Composed in 1906 and dedicated to Cecil Sharp, the renowned collector of English folk song music, the first version of this work originally contained ten folk tunes and was called A New Selection of Songs of Somerset. Later, Holst rewrote the work to include only four folk tunes calling it a A Somerset Rhapsody, which was premiered at Queens Hall in 1910.  Holst believed this performance to be the first real success of his career. The transcription for winds was completed in 1980 by Clare Grundman, a prolific American composer and arranger.  

The four folksongs quoted in A Somerset Rhapsody are "The Sheep-Shearing Song,""High Germany,""True Love's Farewell," and "The Cuckoo." Though not intended as a programmtic work, Holst once divulged to a colleague that the work told a story: "Into a quiet country scene comes the sound of approaching soldiers. A youth who is courting a girl is persuaded to enlist and go to war. The soldiers march into the distance and the pastoral quietness returns. The girl is left alone."
Scherzo Frenetico — Daniel Basford
Scherzo Freneetic is the second movement of Daniel Basford's (b. 1983) Symphony No. 1, Prometheus. The Symphony was begun as pure music without a program, but soon became a commentary on another piece he was working on about the well-known story of Prometheus. The second movement, a wild scherzo, draws its inspiration from the text of Shelley's poem, Prometheus Unbound. Its frantic and insistent music suggests Zeus' anger at the loss of control caused by his theft of fire which he gifted to man, who misused it.
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Celebration — Adolphus Hailstorck
Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941) studied composition as an undergraduate student at Howard University with Mark Fax and for a summer with Nadia Boulanger in France.  He later studied at the Manhattan School of Music and received his PhD in composition from Michigan State University where he studied with H. Owen Reed, a prolific arranger for wind band.  He taught composition at Michigan State, Youngstown State University, Norfolk State University, and Old Dominion University. Hailstork is of African American, native American and European ancestry and his works blend musical ideas from these various traditions.  He was commissioned to write Celebration by The Nashville Symphony to celebrate the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976, and the work was distributed at no cost to high school orchestras around the United States.  His arrangement for wind band followed
Piece of Mind — Dana Wilson
This composition is Dana Wilson's (b. 1946) representation of the workings of the human mind, the four movements each depicting a different state.  Thinking is roughly based on African principles of layering, representing the logical "thinking" process.  Remembering presents the idea that the mind often remembers as sudden bursts and sometimes as vague reminiscences.  The third movement, Feeling, explores various states througout the emotional spectrum, while the final movement, Being, addresses a mental state usually associated with East Indian musical styles: peace. . . of mind.  Dana Wilson holds a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music and is Professor Emeritus at the Ithaca College School of Music.
"For Natalie" from Symphony No. 3 — James Barnes
James Barnes' (b. 1949) Third Symphony was commissioned by the United States Air Force Band, who gave him complete freedom to write a "major work" for band. Barnes began the work at a difficult time in his life, right after his baby daugher Natalie died.  He called it the most emotionally draining work he ever composed and gave it the nickname "Tragic."  The work progresses from the deepest darkness of despair all the way to the brightness of fulfillment and joy. The third movement, "For Natalie," is a fantasia about what Barnes felt his world would have been like if Natalie had lived, and is a farewell to her.
Sacred Spaces — John Mackey
This piece was commissioned by the United States Army Field Band for the band's 2019 concert tour.  The theme of the tour, "Sacred Spaces—A Grand Canyon Celebration" was designed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Grand Canyon National Park.  Although quite different in style from most of Mackey's works for wind ensemble, this sprightly piece still exhibits his masterful manipulation of timbre, combining elements of military fanfare with the soundscape of the wind ensemble

Triangle Wind Ensemble Performers

Flute
Cindy Chastang
Merritt Flexman
Lauren Robbins-Pollack
Rosene Rohrer
Tammy Schmidt*
Jennifer Wesner


Piccolo
Tammy Schmidt

Clarinet
Marianne Breneman
Lecia Cecconi-Roberts
Misti Griffith
Luke Knudsen
Lorena Schakel
Nick Siedentop
Gail VanMatre
Cara Vernon
Julie Wesner-Eidsvaag
Tara Wilkinson
​Ryan Wing

Eb Clarinet
Lecia Cecconi-Roberts

Bass Clarinet
Victoria Alston

Julie Wall
Oboe
Virginia Carty
Katie Michalak
​

English Horn
Virginia Carty

Bassoon
Dale Broadbent
​Robin Hashey​*


Soprano Saxophone
Aaron Payne*

​Alto Saxophone
Nicholas Lira
Aaron Payne*


​Tenor Saxophone
Roberta Melton

​Baritone Saxophone
Lynn Narveson
 Trumpet
Jim Alexander*
Brian Breneman
Christine Bui
Kaitlyn DeHority
​Kris Gilmore
Clay Michalec
Kathy Silbiger

Horn
Christian Gutierrez
Dawn Jonckowski
​Michael Lewis
Eric Smith
Ed Walaski

Euphonium
Connie Varner*
James Wagner

Trombone
Michal Evans
Garry Grabow
Marshall Sweet
Bass Trombone
Dorey A. Freeman


Tuba
Chris Dodson
Bill White
Dillon Johnson
​

Percussion
​Bill Hayes*
Adam Kuehn
Jasmine Maya
Matthew Shore
Krista Siachames


Piano
Drew Johnson


Harp
Samantha Horn
​
Music Director
Evan Feldman


* Denotes Section Leader

Special Thanks to Our 2023-24 Season Sponsors

Our Season Sponsors help provide the financial support needed to enable us to create outstanding music. To find our how you can become a Season Sponsor and the benefits of doing so, please visit our Sponsors page.
Fortississimo Level Sponsors
  • Jim & Laura Alexander
  • Lynn Narveson & Roberta Melton
  • Kathy & Lex Silbiger
  • Kim & Tim Sweet
  • The Rotary Club of Cary-Page
Fortissimo Level Sponsors
  • Brian & Marianne Breneman
  • Christine & Sy Bui
  • Catharine & James Carty
  • Cindy Chastang
  • Carey & Lisa Forman
  • Judith & Paul Kindig
  • KLS Percussion​
  • Katie Michalak
  • Donna & Jim Sosnowski
  • James Wagner
Forte Level Sponsors​​
  • Dale Broadbent
  • Virginia Carty
  • Lecia Cecconi-Roberts
  • Maureen Davis
  • Kaitlyn DeHority
  • Michal Evans
  • Merritt & Greg Flexman
  • Kris Gilmore
  • Garry & Kristi Grabow
  • Frank Hoss
  • Paul & Holly Mandelkern
  • Joel & Linda Johnson
  • Dawn Jonckowski
  • Ethel Radmer
  • Lauren Robbins-Pollack
  • Rosene & David Rohrer
  • Tammy Schmidt
  • Nick Siedentop
  • Suresh Sus
  • Marshall Sweet
  • Gail & Reed VanMatre
  • Connie Varner
  • Cara & Jamie Vernon
  • Ed & Kimberly Walaski
  • Jennifer Wesner
  • Julie Wesner
  • Buddy & Charlotte West
  • Bill White
  • Tara Wilkinson
  • Erin Wynia

​Institutional Partners

Thanks also to the following institutional and community partners who have helped TWE in a variety of ways this year...
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Our Music Director

Dr. Evan Feldman is Director of Wind Studies and Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and teaches courses in conducting and music education. He also directs the Triangle Wind Ensemble and serves as Principal Guest Conductor of the Greensboro Sym- phony, where he conducts education, holiday, and pops concerts.

He is an active guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator in and outside of the United States, with recent engagements in Spain, Switzerland, Romania, Belgium, and Tanzania, as well as all-state, all-district, and all-county honor bands in the United States. Under his direction, the UNC Wind Ensemble has twice been invited to perform at the College Band Directors National Association southern division conference. 

In 2020, Dr. Feldman’s college textbook, Instrumental Music Education (Routledge Publishing), was released in its third edition and has been adopted by university music education programs throughout the country. He is the author of the first MOOC (massive open online course) dedicated to conducting and rehearsal technique. Over 30,000 students have enrolled through Coursera.org.

Dr. Feldman’s arrangements and editions of music by Léo Delibes, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Enescu, Antonin Dvořák, Ariel Ramirez, and Sergei Prokofiev are published by Tierolff Muziekcentrale.

Dr. Feldman earned the Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he studied with Donald Hunsberger and Mendi Rodan and served as an assistant conductor for the Eastman Wind Ensemble and Eastman Wind Orchestra. He received his Masters in Conducting from Ithaca College and his Bachelor of Arts in Music from Duke University. He previously taught high school band in Hicksville, NY.
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  • Home
  • About Us
    • What is a Wind Ensemble?
    • Meet the Ensemble
    • TWE For All
    • Photos
    • TWE in the Time of COVID
  • Concerts
    • Heroes & Villains - May 25, 2025 >
      • Heroes & Villains Concert Program
    • Past Concerts >
      • Voices - April 26, 2025 >
        • Voices Concert Program
      • Music for a Lifetime - February 20, 2025
      • The Snowman & Other Holiday Favorites - December 15, 2024 >
        • The Snowman 2024 Concert Program
      • Masquerade - November 17, 2024 >
        • Masquerade Concert Program
      • 2023-2024 Concert Season >
        • The Music of John Williams - May 26, 2024 >
          • The Music of John Williams 2024 Concert Program
        • Lightscapes - April 28, 2024 >
          • Lightscapes Concert Program
        • Music in Motion - February 11, 2024 >
          • Music in Motion Concert Program
        • The Snowman - December 10, 2023 >
          • The Snowman Concert Program
        • Soundscapes - November 12, 2023 >
          • Soundscapes Concert Program
      • 2022-2023 Concert Season >
        • The Music of John Williams - May 28, 2023
        • Latin Landscapes - April 16, 2023 >
          • Latin Landscapes Concert Program
        • 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
  • Sponsors
  • Listen
  • Join
  • Sheltering Sky Animation
  • Contact