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2011/2012 Season

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Sunday, November 6, 2011, 3 p.m. - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo
Sunday, November 13, 2011, 3 p.m. - Grandview Baptist Church, Kitchener

Winds and Songs

Laura Pudwell - Mezzo-soprano
Daniel Warren - Conductor

Overtures to Bernstein’s Candide and Wagner’s Die Meistersinger and Herberman’s

The Fisher Who Died in his Bed, Reed’s Hounds of Spring, Cable’s The Banks of Newfoundland,

and Bolden’s 1828 St. John Overture. Mezzo Laura Pudwell joins the Winds for

Four Early Songs by Alban Berg and Grub Street by Michael Purves-Smith.

Sunday, December 18, 2011, 3:00 p.m. - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo

A Christmas with the Winds and Young Voices

Inter-Mennonite Children's Choir
Daniel Warren – Conductor

Join with us and enjoy music of the Christmas Season performed by the Inter-Mennonite

Children’s Choir and the Winds including Bell’s Magnificat and Rutter’s What Sweeter Music.

Also The Cremation of Sam McGee by Michael Purves-Smith and Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus

by Dave Arthur, Selections from The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky and A Christmas Festival by Anderson.

This concert will help raise funds for the Mennonite Central Committee.

 

Sunday, February 12, 2012, 3:00 p.m. - Grandview Baptist Church, Kitchener
Sunday, February 26, 2012, 3:00 p.m. - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo

Winds Around the World

Olena Klyucharova - Piano

Daniel Warren – Conductor

Music from international composers including Dukas’ Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Milhaud’s

Suite Francaise from France, Gassi’s Tsunami from Canada, Swearingen’s In All Its Glory

from the United States, and Marquez’ Danzon #2 from Mexico. Olena Klyucharova

will perform Prokofiev’s poetic and brilliant Piano Concerto No. 1 in this new transcription

for piano and wind orchestra by Douglas McLain.

 

Sunday, April 29, 2012, 3:00 p.m. - Grandview Baptist Church, Kitchener
Sunday, May 6, 2012, 3:00 p.m. - Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo

Gandalf Meets Godzilla

John Monkhouse - Trombone

Jim Edwards - Euphonium

Daniel Warren - Conductor

Our season finale moves from the sublime to the ridiculous and back with John Barnes Chance’s

Incantation and Dance, Eric Whitacre’s Godzilla Eats Las Vegas, and Johan de Meij’s

five movement Symphony No. 1 “Lord of the Rings”.  John Monkhouse will perform Arthur Pryor’s

Blue Bells of Scotland. Jim Edwards will perform John Hartmann’s La Belle Americaine.

 

Saturday, May 12, 2012 - KWCMS Music Room
WW Chamber Music Evening

Our annual concert featuring small ensembles from the Wellington Winds.
This concert is not part of the regular season. Ticket information at 886-1673.
Location is the KWCMS Music Room at 57 Young St. W. in Waterloo.

Waterloo
Knox Presbyterian Church
50 Erb St. W.
Kitchener
Grandview Baptist Church
250 Old Chicopee Rd.