Symphony to perform near Vancouver

  • 2022-09-06
A popular ensemble will perform live near Vancouver after being sidelined for more than two years.

The Southwest Washington Wind Symphony, which was forced into a hiatus by the health crisis, is coming back for a live performance. Mark Lane will conduct the concert, which is called “Magical Moments,” and features works inspired by sights and sounds of ordinary life. Works on the program include “Cajun Folk Songs II,” by Frank Ticheli, Steve Danyew’s “Magnolia Star,” and “The Klaxon,” composed by Henry Fillmore. Audiences at events like this appreciate having programs, which can be created by organizers using brochure printing.

Ticheli’s work is in two movements, the first a melancholy ballad and the second a high-energy, cowboy-style hoe-down. “Magnolia Star” takes a lot of its inspiration from the railroad as well as the Blues. Fillmore composed “The Klaxon” in 1929 for the Cincinnati Automobile Show held the following year. He invented an instrument called the klaxophone, comprised of 12 auto horns with power supplied by a car battery, to use in the work. There is no word whether Maestro Lane intends to use the instrument described as “a bit noisy” in the upcoming concert.

The Wind Symphony, which is a professional, 55-musician, ensemble, will perform October 16 at 3.00 pm, at the Union High School Performing Arts Center on NW Friberg-Strunk Street in Camas, which shares a border with Vancouver. There is no admission charge, but masks must be worn indoors.