Adirondack Wind Ensemble Hosts “Home in the Adirondacks”

The Adirondack Wind Ensemble’s Eleanor Marcus Memorial Concert was held on Sunday, Sept. 22 at the E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium in Plattsburgh.

The Adirondack Wind Ensemble (AWE) celebrated Eleanor Marcus’s love of music through its annual Memorial Concert. Marcus graduated from SUNY Plattsburgh in 1943 and loved music, attending almost every music event at E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium for decades until her passing. Since its founding in 2002 by Daniel Gordon, a member of the music faculty at SUNY Plattsburgh, AWE has performed an annual concert in E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium.

AWE is a professional musical ensemble of wind and percussion instruments comprised of music educators and other outstanding community musicians from around the North Country. Its performers represent every public school district in Clinton County as well as several communities beyond. AWE is dedicated to providing quality concert performances by members of this community for this community.

From 2010-20, AWE performed its program at a second venue in either Lake Placid or Saranac Lake.over the years, AWE has also performed at Battle of Plattsburgh Commemorations (2002-2004), in annual fall concerts at Plattsburgh High School (2007-2009), at First Night Saranac Lake (New Year’s Eve 2014), and as part of the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival (2020). These geographic expansions have made AWE a true “Adirondack” Wind Ensemble.

Program:
“Home in the Adirondacks”

Gustav Holst (1874-1934):

• Second Suite in F, Op. 28b (1911)
  – March
  – Song without Words “I’ll love my love”
  – Song of the Blacksmith
  – Fantasia on the “Dargason”

Maurice Whitney (1901-1984):

• Introduction and Samba (1951)
  – for alto saxophone and band

Todd Pray, soloist
– Intermission –

Ian Deterling (b. 1990)

• Images of the Adirondacks, Op. 25 (2024)
  – Autumn Colors
  – Mountain Sunset
  – Tempest

– AWE Commission, World Premiere –

Charles Ives (1888-1897) arr. Elkus

• Old Home Days
  – Waltz (1874-1954)
  – The Opera House – Old Home Day
  – The Collection
  – Slow March
  – London Bridge Is Fallen Down!

Learn more about AWE here.