Wind Symphony and Concert Band Performance
Wednesday 04/23/2025 at 7:30pm EDT in Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall and livestreamed at https://vimeo.com/wsom
The Concert Band opens its Final performance of the year with San Antonio Dances by Frank Ticheli. John Mackey’s Ringmaster’s March is also featured. A fanfare set of Brian Balmage’s Fanfare Canzonique and Andrew Blair’s anti-Fanfare open the Wind Symphony’s performance. Carter Pann’s Hold This Boy and Listen adds a touch of tenderness before the concert concludes with Cosmopolitan America, a march by Helen May Butler, known in her time as “The Female Sousa.”
Spring Football Game – Undergraduate and Alumni Band Performance
Friday 04/25/2025 – The Bands Alumni Association is recruiting for the Ram-Pep-Band that is playing at the Spring Football Game! The band is made up of Alumni, as well as WCU Undergraduate and Graduate Student bandmembers. We will play at the Gold Box, in the stands, and at halftime. BRING THE FAMILY! BRING YOUR FRIENDS! Cheer for both sides…the football team is playing itself in a scrimmage! The game is free, there is no cost to be in the band, and your uniform is your choice of a WCU shirt. Sport that purple and gold! RamBand shirts, Alumni RamBand shirts, and WCU shirts are all welcome. Your bottom half can be shorts or pants based on the weather, and wear sneakers. We will send you your music in PDF format via email once you’ve signed up (and Dr. Gumble comes up with our set list).
GAME DAY INFORMATION AND SIGN UP IS HERE: https://wcupabaa.com/ram-pep-band-at-the-2025-spring-football-game/
Wind Ensemble Performance
Sunday 04/27/2025 at 3:00pm EDT in Madeline Wing Adler Theater (MWAT) and livestreamed at https://vimeo.com/wsom
Concluding its performances for the year, the Wind Ensemble presents an eclectic offering of compositions. Pennsylvania composer, Rob Traugh’s Sparke and Fire and Benjamin Britten’s Passacaglia from Peter Grimes open the concert. Elizabeth Pfaffe then joins the Wind Ensemble for a performance of Zirk, a concerto for horn and wind ensemble by Scott Boerma. The Wind Ensemble closes its season with John Mackey’s epic Wine Dark Sea.