The Lee University Wind Ensemble
The Lee University Wind Ensemble will perform its final concert of the season on Thursday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Conn Center under conductor Dr. David Holsinger, professor of music at Lee.
The concert will consist of a number of the conductor’s “favorites” and will open with the march from “Symphonic Metamorphosis,” composed by Paul Hindemith.
Graduate Conductor Timothy Linley will conduct the “Pas Redoublé” by Camille Saint-Saëns, which, according to Holsinger, was “a lively quickstep march originally written for four-hand piano” and later transcribed for band.
Following a performance of Gustav Holst’s “First Suite in E-Flat,” Mrs. Winona Holsinger will take the podium to conduct several of her husband’s “gentle” pieces. A new edition of “The Globe and Eagle March” by John Philip Sousa, “East Wind” by William O. Smith, and “Festive Overture” by Dmitri Shostakovich will close out the night.
The Lee Wind Ensemble is composed of 52 student musicians. Under the direction of Dr. Holsinger for the past 16 years, this group is committed to the highest level of performance of instrumental ensemble literature for winds and percussion, and performs for special concerts on the Lee University campus.
In addition to his university teaching, Dr. Holsinger spends time as a guest clinician, composer, and conductor throughout the United States, appearing at more than 60 major universities and colleges in the last decade and conducting high school honor bands in 37 states.
The concert is free and open to the public.
For more information about the concert or Lee’s School of Music, call 614-8240.