I just wanted to bring to the attention of Seattle and other Northwest audiophiles, and PNWAS members that the Seattle Wind Symphony plays a concert Saturday, 7 PM, February 23, 2013 at the Fist Free Methodist Church auditorium. The church is located on the North side of Queen Anne Hill. It is acoustically quite good and used by several groups for concerts and recording.
The Seattle Wind Symphony is comprised of approx. 60 players, including a full complement of woodwinds, brass, percussion, string bass, harp and piano. Many are music teachers in the region, and about half of the personnel hold graduate degrees in music.
I posted here as the band plays the same kind of literature as the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Cleveland Winds, etc., whose recordings are often treasured by audiophiles. This program includes "Incantation and Dance" by John Barnes Chance, "Suite of Old American Dances" by Robert Russell Bennett, "Enigma Variations" by Sir Edward Elgar, Percy Grainger's "Molly on the Shore", "Fantasia for Alto Saxophone" by Claude T. Smith and other pieces.
[As done by Mercury and Telarc, the concerts are recorded using a minimalist miking/audiophile approach-three spaced omnidirectional microphones, (Neumann TLM 50) and a Nagra VI digital recorder at 96/24.]
Hope you'll join us for the concert and support the SWS!
For more info (and sound clips) please see their website:
http://www.seattlewindsymphony.org/
Thanks!
Phillip Chance, M.D., M.A.
The Seattle Wind Symphony is comprised of approx. 60 players, including a full complement of woodwinds, brass, percussion, string bass, harp and piano. Many are music teachers in the region, and about half of the personnel hold graduate degrees in music.
I posted here as the band plays the same kind of literature as the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Cleveland Winds, etc., whose recordings are often treasured by audiophiles. This program includes "Incantation and Dance" by John Barnes Chance, "Suite of Old American Dances" by Robert Russell Bennett, "Enigma Variations" by Sir Edward Elgar, Percy Grainger's "Molly on the Shore", "Fantasia for Alto Saxophone" by Claude T. Smith and other pieces.
[As done by Mercury and Telarc, the concerts are recorded using a minimalist miking/audiophile approach-three spaced omnidirectional microphones, (Neumann TLM 50) and a Nagra VI digital recorder at 96/24.]
Hope you'll join us for the concert and support the SWS!
For more info (and sound clips) please see their website:
http://www.seattlewindsymphony.org/
Thanks!
Phillip Chance, M.D., M.A.