HOUGHTON COLLEGE 2007 SYMPHONIC WINDS TOUR

HOUGHTON, N.Y. —The Greatbatch School of Music, Houghton College announces the 2007 Symphonic Winds Tour from Feb. 23 to March 2.

Under the direction of Gary Stith, the Houghton College Symphonic Winds is a 60-member wind ensemble which seeks to expose its students and its audiences to the highest quality music written for wind and percussion instruments.

The 2007 tour program includes “Liberty Fanfare” by John Williams, “Variations on ‘America’” by Charles Ives/Schuman, “Americans We March” by Henry Fillmore/Fennell, “Canzona” by Peter Mennin, “Sacred Suite” by Alfred Reed, “On an American Spiritual” by David Holsinger and “Suite for Marice” by Stephen Shewan (commissioned and premiered by the Houghton College Symphonic Winds).

The 2007 tour includes concerts at the following:

Friday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. 

Wesleyan Church of Orchard Park

7295 Ellicott Road

Orchard Park, N.Y.

Saturday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 25 at 8 and 10:45 a.m.

First Baptist Church of Danville

20 Brookside Drive

Danville, Pa.

Sunday, Feb. 25 at 7 p.m.

Calvary Baptist Church

111 Dewberry Avenue

Bethlehem, Pa.

Monday, Feb .26 at 2 and 7:30 p.m.

Gateway Cathedral

200 Boscombe Avenue

Staten Island, N.Y.

Wednesday, Feb. 28 at 7 p.m.

North Shore Community Baptist Church

9 Hart Street

Beverly Farms, Mass.

March 2 at 7 p.m.

Green Mountain Union High School

716 VT Route 103 South

Chester, Vt.

For more information on any Symphonic Winds concert, contact Associate Professor and Coordinator of Music Education Gary Stith at 585.567.9411 or gary.stith@houghton.edu.