MIT Wind Ensemble

Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director
Kenneth Amis, Assistant Conductor

A unique amalgam of music and special lighting featuring works for full wind ensemble & brass, percussion, and woodwind chamber ensembles. The program will feature Holst’s rarely heard masterpiece, Hammersmith, the Boston premiere of Apotheosis by Kathryn Salfelder, Bach’s Contrapunctus 7 from The Art of Fugue, transcribed by Kenneth Amis, Mannin Veen, the wind ensemble classic by English composer Haydn Wood, chamber ensembles with students from the Norwood and King Philip High Schools, and three world premieres by composer and legendary music educator, John McLellan, formerly of the Belmont Public Schools.