NEC Wind Ensemble: A Valentine to Contemporary Musical Arts

The NEC Wind Ensembles are first in line when given a chance to celebrate music-making across disciplines. This concert, originally held on February 14, 2023, brings together musicians of the Wind Ensemble and the CMA departments as we celebrate together the 50th anniversary of CMA at NEC.

CMA instrumentalists join the Wind Ensemble to play Hankus Netsky's Klezmer Nonantum Bulgar and on Michael Gandolfi's landmark Vientos y Tangos variations. CMA vocalists provide old-time New England shape-note singing as a prelude to William Schuman's arrangements of Chester and When Jesus Wept. Thomas Duffy joins us from Yale for his crossing genres, Three Places in New Haven. Rounding out the program is a touch of Spain in Rodrigo's touching Adagio.

"The process in which we have delighted for the past weeks has been very NEC: Netsky, Cheb Terrab, and Duffy bringing ideas from other "countries" in the world of music as we together tore down borders to explore this music." — Charles Peltz, Director of NEC Wind Ensembles

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Happy Valentines Day to all the blondes! Especially the blonde tall guys!