The Adirondack Wind Ensemble (AWE) will celebrate the occasion of its 20th anniversary on Sunday, September 25 at 2pm in the E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium at SUNY Plattsburgh. AWE will be joined by Allan McMurray, guest conductor, who is the former graduate advisor of AWE director Daniel Gordon.
Adirondack Wind Ensemble 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 and they gather in AWE to share in the joy of making music. AWE is dedicated to providing quality concert performances by members of this community for this community.
The two worked together at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the early 1990s making the concert a joyous reunion for the two musicians. McMurray, widely considered one of the leading wind ensemble directors in the country, will conduct a program of music by Percy Grainger (Children’s March, Irish Tune from County Derry, and Lincolnshire Posy) and Gustav Holst (Hammersmith and First Suite in E-flat).
This project is made possible with funds from the Plattsburgh College Foundation Eleanor Marcus Music
Endowment; the Statewide Community Regrants program, a regrant program of the New York State
Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature
and administered by the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts; the SUNY Plattsburgh Student Association
through the Campus Arts Council and the Music Department; and Stewart’s Shops.
Admission is $10, free for all students.
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