THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, June 21, 1996 TAG: 9606190123
SECTION: CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER PAGE: 06 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY ERIC FEBER, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: 55 lines
When Chesapeake audiences hear James Hosay's ``High Tide,'' they'll know the Tidewater Winds are blowing through Chesapeake again.
The area's most popular professional concert band, which opens all of its concerts with Hosay's piece, is planning its 12th season of free summer concerts.
The Tidewater Winds concert band will begin its season of free summer concerts ``in the Sousa band tradition'' beginning July 1 in Chesapeake.
City concerts take place on July 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 at Great Bridge High School auditorium and again on July 5, 12 and 26 at Western Branch Middle School.
The group will also perform at the Wells Theater in Norfolk, Kempsville High School and 24th Street Park in Virginia Beach and Willett Hall in Portsmouth.
The Chesapeake concerts are free and will be staged through a grant from the Chesapeake Fine Arts Commission, the Recording Industries Music Performance Trust Fund and Local 125 of the American Federation of Musicians.
The Winds were founded by its conductor Sidney Berg. Alberto Ascercion is the group's assistant conductor.
When the Winds open in Chesapeake on July 1, it will present its popular and timely ``Music of America'' program, perfect for a Fourth of July week.
Other programs will include ``A Night In Vienna'' chock-full of waltzes and other Austrian delights; ``The Music of Broadway'' with music from your favorite new and classic Broadway shows; ``Concert Favorites'' with the songs, marches and melodies that make people want to dance, move or sing; and a ``Broadway Spectacular'' with more memorable songs and tunes from the Great White Way.
But the Winds will kick things off in grand red-white-and-blue fashion with a program of songs that define and celebrate America. Program music will be taken from famous American composers, Broadway tunes, patriotic marches and songs, the big band swing era and even modern classical music.
The week's guest soloist will be Trish Fritz, who will present a clarinet solo in Artie Shaw's ``Clarinet Concerto'' and Benny Goodman's foot-stomping theme ``Let's Dance.''
In addition, Ascercion will lead the Winds through John Philip Sousa's ``Pride of the Wolverines'' and ``The Gallant Seventh,'' Scott Joplin's ``The Entertainer,'' Henry Fillmore's ``His Honor March'' and George Gershwin's ``An American in Paris.''
Other patriotic and American favorites to be performed at the Winds' initial Chesapeake concert will include ``The Star Spangled Banner,'' John Williams' ``Liberty fanfare,'' Sousa's ``Liberty Bell March,'' George M. Cohan's ``Star Spangled Spectacular,'' Morton Gould's ``American Salute'' and Leonard Bernstein's ``Candide Overture.''
All Tidewater Winds' Chesapeake concerts are free and will begin at 7:30 p.m. No tickets are needed. Dress is casual and cassette tape recordings of Winds performances will be available for sale.
More information is available by calling 484-3799. by CNB