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The Greater NY Wind Symphony
The GREATER NY WIND SYMPHONY, formerly the Orange County Music Educators' Wind Ensemble established in 1989, is a non profit organization of dedicated music educators who enjoy preparing and performing great wind ensemble literature for our community. Concerts are given at least three times a year. Our Artistic Director is Richard Regan.
Contact Information
The Greater NY Wind Symphony
Stephen Austin - Executive Director, 892 Roosa Gap Road, Bloomingburg, NY 12721
845-321-0638, mhsbandboy@hotmail.com,
Next Concert
Out Reach Concert
December 12, 2009
Saturday, 3:00 PM
Celebrating our 20th year, The Greater New York Wind Symphony will be giving a concert on Saturday, December 12 at 3:00 PM in the Warwick Valley High School auditorium. This is our fifth annual Student Outreach Concert. The participating organizations are the Warwick Valley Elementary and Middle School Bands under the direction of Ashley Head and Nicole Reddeker, the Minisink Valley High School Wind Ensemble under the direction of Joseph Horner. The GNYWS will be performing Leonard Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and Overture to "Candide".featuring school band members and Wind Symphony members
Tickets Adults: $8.00
Seniors: $5.00
Students: $5.00
Future Concerts
Spring 2010
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Artistic Director
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Richard F. Regan, our Artistic Director, currently teaches instrumental music at Monroe-Woodbury High School, Central Valley, NY. His responsibilities include teaching brass and percussion lessons and directing the Freshman Band, Chamber Winds, and Wind Ensemble. The Wind Ensemble has consistently earned Level VI Gold with Distinction ratings at NYSSMA Majors festivals since he joined the Monroe-Woodbury faculty in the fall of 1997. His Chamber Winds was selected to perform at the Chamber Society of Lincoln Center Young Artists Program in Alice Tully Hall and also appeared on the National Public Radio broadcast series “From the Top”. Rick has served on the brass and band faculty at the Crane School of Music Summer Youth Program and makes numerous guest-conducting appearances at county and regional festivals throughout the state. In addition to his conducting obligations, Rick enjoys an active schedule as a professional trombonist and brass clinician in the New York Metropolitan Region and currently holds the principal trombone desk in the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra. Rick received his Masters in Trombone Performance from the Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida; and his Bachelors in Music Education with a performers certificate in Trombone from The Crane School of Music in Potsdam, NY. |
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Executive Director Steve Austin is our Executive Director and past President of OCMEA. Ashley Head - Personnel Director, headashley@gmail.com |
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Executive Director Emeritus
We would like to thank Don Franklin for his many years of service to OCMEA and the Wind Ensemble. Don was past Executive Director of the Wind Ensemble and one of the people responsible for it's creation. Don currently teaches instrumental music at Monroe-Woodbury Middle School and is President-Emeritus of O.C.M.E.A and President of the New York State Band Directors' Association. Bravo! |
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Past Concerts
CONCERT
November 14, 2009
3:00 PM
Monroe-Woodbury High School Auditorium
155 Dunderberg Rd
Central Valley, NY 10917
Dr. John Lynch - Guest Conductor
John Lynch is the Director of Bands and Professor of Music at The University of Georgia where he guides all aspects of the band and graduate wind conducting programs. Previous positions include Director of Bands at the University of Kansas, Associate Director of Bands at Northwestern University and Director of Instrumental Music at Emory University. Dr. Lynch has also held positions as Music Director of the Northshore Concert Band and the Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony, and he is the founder of the KU/Kansas City Youth Wind Symphony and the Orange County Music Educators Wind Ensemble. He has ten years of public high school teaching experience in New York State where he was the national recipient of the Stanbury award for outstanding teaching and conducting and the William Revelli Award.
PROGRAM
A Musical Toast - Leonard Bernstein
An Outdoor Overture - Aaron Copland
Contre qui rose - Morton Lauridsen
The Sound of Music-Richard Rogers/arr. Mike Buckley
Intermission
Fugue a la Gigue - J.S. Bach/arr. Gustav Holst
It Perched For Vespers Nine-Joel Puckett
Undertow - John Mackey
20 year members of The Greater NY Wind Symphony
The Greater NY Wind Symphony
Celebrating their 20th season with a performance of
Johan DeMeij’s "Lord of the Rings" Symphony
Saturday, October 3 , 2009
3:00pm concert
Wind Ensemble 2009 Spring Concert
Middletown High School Auditorium
Directions to Middletown High School
3:00 PM
April 4, 2009
Program
Fanfare to La Peri by Dukas
Adagio para Orquesta by Rodrigo
First Suite in E-flat by Holst
Musica Bohema by Lukas
March from Symphonic Metamorphosis by Hindemith.
Tickets: $8.00/ Seniors-Students $5.00
Concert Saturday afternoon 3:00PM - April 4, 2009 |
Paula Holcomb will be the guest conductor.
Dr. Paula Holcomb became Director of Bands at the State University of New York at Fredonia in 1999 after being Director of Bands for 20 years at Central College in Pella, Iowa. Under her direction at Central College, the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the Symphonic Band toured internationally to Canada, Europe, and Mexico and performed at Alice Tully Hall of New York City's Lincoln Center. At SUNY Fredonia, Dr. Holcomb oversees an extensive band program consisting of four concert bands while she conducts the Wind Ensemble and musicals. In addition, she initiated the Master of Music in Conducting degree program and teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting.
Highly sought after as an adjudicator and guest conductor, Dr. Holcomb has conducted bands and orchestras in 39 states, South America, Australia, Mexico, Europe, and Canada. She has presented Conducting Symposiums in Canada, South America, Australia and the United States. Dr. Holcomb is former assistant horn of the Des Moines Symphony and past president of the Iowa Music Educators Association. Recently, she was presented with the A. Frank Miller award from Kappa Kappa Psi, served on the Council and Artistic Planning Conference Committee for the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, serving on the board of the Conductors Guild and is currently Northeastern Division President-elect of the College Band Directors National Association.
**Annual Outreach CONCERT**
December 13, 2008
Middletown High School Auditorium
20 Gardner Ave Ext Middletown NY 10940
Saturday, December 13, 9:00-1:00 PM
PROGRAM
Albanian Dance by Shelley Hanson,
Symphony for Band by Vincent Persichetti,
Star Wars Trilogy by John Williams arranged by Donald Hunsberger
To be joined by local school band members from the Middletown School District
September Program
Gavorkna Fanfare - Jack Stamp
Be Thou My Vision - David Gillingham
La Fiesta Mexicana - H. Owen Reed
Raiders March - John Williams
December 8, 2007
7:00 PM
Monroe-Woodbury High School
155 Dunderberg Rd Central Valley, NY 10917
Program
Overture to Candide by Bernstein/Beeler
Blessed are They from Brahm's German Requiem
March of the Belgian Paratroopers by Leemans
Blue Shades by Ticheli
Featuring Bands from:
Central Valley Elementary School
Monroe-Woodbury High School Wind Ensemble
Conductor Richard Regan
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Washingtonville Middle School
7:30 PM
Richard Regan - Conductor
Divertimento by Persichetti
October by Eric Whitacre
Children's March by Grainger
Folk Dances by Shostakovich
Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral by Wagner
Spring Concert
April 21, 2007 7:30 PM
C.J. Hooker Middle School Goshen, NY
Program
Dr. John Laverty
Director of Bands - Syracuse University
John M. Laverty, Professor of Music, joined the faculty of Syracuse University in 1995 as Director of Bands, also having served as chair of Wind and Percussion studies for nine years and as Director of the Syracuse University School of Music. He conducts the Syracuse University Wind Ensemble and teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting. A native of Winchester Kentucky, he has held faculty positions at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Florida and McMurry University. He holds degrees from the University of Kentucky and Florida State University.
A versatile musician, he has performed at state, regional, national, and international music festivals including the College Band Directors National Association, The World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, the Syracuse Jazz Festival, the Notre Dame Jazz Festival, and the Mobile Jazz Festival. As a trumpet player, he has performed internationally with numerous professional orchestras and bands including the American Chamber Winds, the Syracuse Symphony, the Abilene Philharmonic, the New Columbian Brass Band, the Advocate Brass Band and with Grammy and Tony award winners in both the classical and jazz arenas. He has performed in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Caribbean, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Scotland, Sweden and throughout the United States.
As a recording producer, he is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (the Grammy organization). He worked with jazz recording legend Rudy Van Gelder and Boston Brass on the 2000 Summit Records release "Ya’ Gotta Try." His most recent recording with the Syracuse University Wind Ensemble was the critically acclaimed Music for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble featuring Vince DiMartino. His other recordings are available from Mark Records, JVC-Victor, Summit Records, with upcoming releases on the Centaur and Gazebo Labels.
An accomplished arranger, his works have been performed throughout the United States by high school, collegiate and professional bands including "The President's Own" United States Marine Band, the Millennium Brass Quintet, Boston Brass, the Allentown Band and by NYPD tenor Daniel Rodriguez
Winter Concert
December 9, 2006 Saturday 7:30 PM
Richard Regan, Conductor
Pine Bush High School
Program:
Cave by Russell Peck - also known as Cave of the Winds
Toccata and Fugue in D M:inor BWV 565 by J.S. Bach, Scored for Wind Band by Donald Hunsberger
Symphony No. 3 "Slavyanskaya" for concert band by Boris Kozhevnikov edited by John R. Bourgeois
Play with the Pros" outreach concert where three area schools will have the opportunity to play one of there pieces with us.
Participating Schools:
Highland Falls 6th Grade Band
Goshen's C.J. Hooker Middle School Wind Ensemble
Pine Bush High School Wind Ensemble
Fall Concert
September 16, 2006
Program:
Festive Overture Opus 96 - Dmitri Shostakovich/Donald Hunsberger
The Solitary Dance - Warren Benson
A Movement for Rosa - Mark Camphouse
Shepherd's Hey - Percy Grainger/Mark Rogers
Puszta - Jan Van der Roost
Conductor: Dr. James W. McRoy -
Director of Bands at Long Island University~C.W. Post Campus;President of NYS Band Directors Association,
NYS Chair of College Band Directors National Association, NYS Chair of National Band Association.
PROGRAM
Overture to La Forza del Destino (Verdi/Rogers)
Psalm for Band (Persichetti)
Yiddish Dances (Gorb)
March, Op.99 (Prokofiev)
With Heart and Voice (Gillingham
Program - Courtly Airs and Dances (Nelson), Lincolnshire Posy (Grainger) and Russian Christmas Music (Reed)
Conductor for March 2005 Concert- Dr. Glen Adsit,
Pacific Fanfare by Frank Ticheli
Folk Song Suite by Ralph Vaughn Williams
Chant Funeraire by Gabriel Faure
Masquarade Variations by Steve Gryc
Galop by Dimitri Shostakovich
Artistic Director/Conductor - Richard Regan, of Monroe-Woodbury High School
Shortcut Home by Dana Wilson
Ghost Train by Eric Whittacre
Southern Harmony (1st. 3 mvts.) by Grantham
Armenian Dances by Alfred Reed
Fall 2004 Program
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 Biography: Glen Adsit is the director of bands at The Hartt School where he conducts the Wind Ensemble, Contemporary Players Ensemble and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting. Prior to his appointment at The Hartt School, he was the associate director of bands at the University of New Mexico. While in New Mexico he conducted the University of New Mexico Wind Symphony on the College Band Directors regional and national conventions. He was an associate producer for the recently released compact disc entitled Fandango featuring the University of New Mexico Wind Symphony and soloists Phil Smith and Joseph Allessi from the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mr. Adsit’s professional conducting includes a series of concerts with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, a Hartford Symphony pops concert at Talcott Mountain and recently, members of the Hartford Symphony in Dance Connecticut’s production of the Nutcracker. Glen also conducted the University of Michigan All-State Intermediate Orchestra for seven years at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, Michigan. Prior to his university appointments, he taught for seven years in the Michigan public schools at both the junior high and high school levels. Under his direction, the Plymouth Centennial Marching Band was a two-time Bands of America Grand National Champion. He holds a bachelor’s degree in music education and trombone performance and a master’s degree in wind conducting, both from the University of Michigan.
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November 14/15, 2003 - Monroe Woodbury Middle SchoolThe 14th Season2003/2004 PERFORMANCE SEASON Conductor - Dr. Glen Adsit, of the Hartt School of Music, at the University of Hartford Program Grainger: Molly on the Shore Holst: Suite in Eb Hesketh: Masque Agapkin: A Slavic Farewell Puccini: Tosca Fantasy – saxophone soloist will be Carrie Koffman, saxophone professor at Hartt Laudison: Magnum Mysterium –
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Conductor: Conrad Kushay Concert: Saturday, November 16, 2002 7:30 PM Washingtonville Middle School, Washingtonville, NY Program EL CAPITAN ROYCE HALL SUITE PRELUDE, FUGUE, RONDO TRIBUTE TO JEROME KERN SYMPHONIC DANCE#3 "FIESTA" PERPETUAL MOTION SONGS OF SAILOR AND SEA FOUR COLONIAL COUNTRY DANCES DEVIL'S DREAM
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Concert November 4, 2001 Variants on a Mediaeval Tune - Norman Dello Joio America, The Beautiful - Samuel Augustus Ward, Arranged by Carmen Dragon Early Light - Carolyn Bremer The Stars and Stripes Forever - John P. Souza Arranged Brion/Schissel La Fiesta Mexicana - H. Own Reed Intermezzo from the Opera "Vanessa" - Samuel Barber Arranged by Walter Beeler
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Crane School of Music
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Slava - Leonard Bernstein
Florentiner March - Julius Fucik, Op 214, Arranged by M.L. Lake, Edited by F. Fennell
English Waltz from 5th Movement from "Youthful Suite" by Percy Grainger
Four Scottish Dances - Malcom Arnold, Arranged by John Paynter
American Overture for Band - Joseph W. Jenkins
Our Conductor for November 1998 Concert
Dr. Peter Loel Boonshaft, Hofstra University
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Past Conductors of O.C.M.E.A Wind Ensemble: Left to Right -
Al Smukala, Jeffrey Gershman, Vic Izzo II, Porter Eidam and Curt Ebersole
