The Southwest Civic Winds will present concerts at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5 at the Bayfield Performing Arts Center, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6 at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College.
The principal work on the concerts will be the American classic, Rhapsody in Blue, by George Gershwin. The performance will feature Dr. Lisa Campi Walters on piano, who is a professor in the music department at Fort Lewis College. She is also the wife of Dr. Mark Walters, the conductor of the Southwest Civic Winds.
The Southwest Civic Winds will perform other works from the repertoire of great American concert band music, including Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, Robert Russell Bennett's three-part Symphonic Songs for Band, Leonard Bernstein's A Simple Song, and Samuel Barber's stirring Commando March.
Admission is $15 for adults, and $5 for students and children.
Tickets for the Bayfield concert will be available at the door. Tickets for the Durango concert are available at the Welcome Center at Eighth and Main, at the box office, or online at www.durangoconcerts.com, and by phone at 247-7657.
For information contact Mark Walters at 247-7151, or info@southwestcivicwinds.org. Also go to the website, www.southwestcivicwinds.org.
The Southwest Civic Winds is a concert band comprised of players from the Four Corners area, and the instrumentation includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion. The band played its first concert in March of 2012, and regularly plays three concerts per year. The band fills an important role in the musical life of the Four Corners. As a community ensemble, it provides an outlet for the musical skills of area residents, at the same time as it presents audiences with a chance to experience the rich power of the concert band literature. The conductor is Mark Walters, of the Fort Lewis College music department.
