Wind Ensemble 2017-18

Wind Ensemble 2017-18



Union High School graduates Weston and Trevor Krug and Kassie Hennings will return home Saturday, March 24, performing as members of the Wartburg College Wind Ensemble.

The 7:30 p.m. concert will be at Union High School, 200 Adams St. The Union High School Band, under the direction of Mike Bistline, also will perform. Free-will donations will be accepted.

Craig A. Hancock, director of bands and professor of music, and Wind Ensemble members will lead a clinic for Union Middle School band students earlier in the day.

Repertoire for the concert includes “American Overture for Bands” by J.W. Jenkins, “Rolling Thunder” by Henry Fillmore and “Gallant Seventh” by John Philip Sousa. The band also will play “Raging Machines” by Brian Balmages and “Moon by Night” by Jonathan Newman among others. Sunday morning, several smaller ensembles made up of Wind Ensemble members will provide music in area churches during the morning worship services.

Founded in 1898, the Wartburg College Concert Bands program comprises two ensembles: the Wind Ensemble and the Symphonic Band. Placement is determined by a yearly audition. Both groups represent students of all class standings and nearly all academic majors. The bands present joint and individual concerts throughout the year. The Wind Ensemble tours each spring and schedules an international tour every third year during Wartburg’s one-month May Term. The 2016 monthlong tour was to Central Europe; and in 2013, the ensemble traveled to China and Japan. The next tour, in 2019, will be the band’s third trip to Japan.