Adirondack Wind Ensemble to Give Winter Concerts

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January 13, 2014

The Adirondack Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Daniel Gordon, will perform its annual winter concerts 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts and 2 p.m. Sunday, January 26, in the E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium in Hawkins Hall on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus. Tickets are $10 general admission. All students get in free.

The program, titled “Contrasts,” features the premiere of the new work “Living Things” by Montreal composer Melissa Hui and commissioned by the Adirondack Wind Ensemble. Also on the program are Sergei Prokofiev’s “March, Op. 99,” PDQ Bach’s “Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion” and H. Owen Reed’s “La Fiesta Mexicana.”