Metropolitan Wind Symphony

The Metropolitan Wind Symphony, Lewis J. Buckley Conductor and Music Director

This concert by the Metropolitan Wind Symphony will take place on Sunday, March 4, 2012 in Lexington MA, in Carey Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Avenue, at 2:00 pm. There will be a pre-concert talk by the Music Director at 1:30.

The program will be based on a concert the MWS will perform at the annual convention of the Association of Concert Bands (ACB) in April, 2012. The program will include three major works: Percy Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy; Frank Tichelli's Blue Shades; and Mari van Gils' transcription of Gershwin's An American in Paris.

Also included in the program will be: James Kessler's Hudson River Rhapsody for solo oboe and wind band, Elana Lorance, soloist; Keith Wilson's transcription of Hindemith's March from "Symphonic Metamorphosis"; Massenet's Castillane, from Ballet Music from "Le Cid"; and Eric Whitaker's October.

The podcast includes brief interesting discussion of and excerpts from each piece, plus at least one interesting extra you definitely won't anticipate and almost certainly will not have heard before!

On Sunday afternoon, Nov. 13, 2011 at 2:00, The Metropolitan Wind Symphony will give a concert in Cary Hall in Lexington MA. Listen to our podcast for a preview of the music, interesting insights into the various selections, and specific information about the conceert.

On March 6, at 2:00 pm, the Metropolitan Wind Symphony will present "Major Wind Works". You'll hear music by Vaughan Williams, Copland, Gandolfi, Whitacre, Robert Russell Bennett, and others. We will present a world premiere of Kevin Wilt's Fanfare for Winds; and perhaps best of all, Frank Battisti, Conductor Emeritus of the New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble, will be our guest conductor.

This will be a wonderful concert—don't miss it! But in case you have to, here's a taste of it in our "Major Wind Works" podcast.

Concert Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 2:00 pm (pre-concert talk at 1:30)
Location: National Heritage Museum, 33 Marrett Road, Lexington MA

This concert will feature a world premiere performance of Conductor Lewis J. Buckley's Capriccio, commissioned by the Metropolitan Wind Symphony to honor two previous Acting Music Directors, Robert Franzblau and James O'Dell. Their primary instruments being trumpet and tuba, Capriccio is a piece for solo trumpet and tuba with wind band; Rob will conduct, and Jim will play the tuba solo, joined by trumpet soloist Joseph Foley.

For additional information (and a sneak preview of the new work), listen to our podcast!

Preview Podcast for Metropolitan Wind Symphony concert on Sunday, March 7 2010 at 2 PM, Lexington MA.

This is a narrated concert preview of a program to be presented by the Metropolitan Wind Symphony on Sunday, March 8, 2009, at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, MA.

The narration speaks to the music that will be performed, and nearly all of the musical examples were recorded during the rehearsal cycle for the concert.

Metropolitan Wind Symphony - Podcast Preview of concert to be performed in Lexington MA at the National Heritage Museum, 33 Marrett Street, on Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:00 pm. Music Director Lewis J. Buckley narrates, with recorded excerpts from the concert program.

Lori Huberman, member of the MWS flute section, will be the groups first member soloist under the direction of Lewis Buckley. This episode is a short interview with Lori and Lew about her solo, and the rest of the program, that the Metropolitan Wind Symphony will present on March 2, 2008, at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Massachusetts.

"From The Podium" is a regularly occuring lecture happening before each Metropolitan Wind Symphony concert. In this talk Lewis Buckley answers his own question "Do They Really Need a Conductor?"

A five minute talk show with Lewis J. Buckley, the new Music Director and conductor of the Metropolitan Wind Symphony.