Wind Orchestra Recital 2024 Concert 1

Faculty artist Joaquín Valdepeñas conducts top students in Russian composer Edison Denisov’s adventurous 1961 piece for eleven wind instruments and timpani, followed by Mozart’s sublime Serenade for 13 Winds known as the “Gran Partita.” It’s one of the composer’s most beloved works in any genre and undoubtedly one of the greatest masterpieces ever written for wind band. In Peter Shaffer’s play Amadeus, the character Salieri gives a vivid and emot...