A wind symphony is a little different from the band many remember from their high-school days. A good wind symphony can sound so much like an orchestra that it's easy not to notice that the strings ...
There's a venerable tradition of concert works contrasting small groups of instrumentalists with larger ensembles. Examples are as varied as Handel's concerti grossi and Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, ...
Erin Hannigan, the DSO's principal oboe since 2001 - and an adjunct associate professor at Southern Methodist University - will leave at the end of this season to become professor of oboe at Rice ...
The Dallas Wind Symphony is one of the great bands in the world today. At the 2006 American Bandmasters Association Convention in its hometown, it played a spotlight concert with a different conductor ...