Directors: Justin Halat and Kristina O'Dea
The Hightstown High School Wind Ensemble is comprised of the most advanced wind and percussion students in Hightstown's Instrumental Music Program. The 57 members of the Wind Ensemble are carefully selected through an audition process that is held in May each year. This full year course provides difficult and challenging repertoire for the advanced band student in Hightstown High School.
List of literature performed:
Purgatorio by Robert W. Smith
Inferno by Robert W. Smith
Spoon River by Percy Grainger
Lux Aurumque by Eric Whitacre
Three Klezmer Miniatures
Rite of Spring by Stravinsky, arr. by Buckley
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair by Debussy, arr. by Sparke
Puszta by Jan Van Der Roost
Scootin on Hardrock by David Holsinger
Strange Humors by John Mackey
Incantation and Dance by John Barnes Chance
Symphonic Dance No. 2 by Clifton Williams
Metroplex by Robert Sheldon
Elixir by Michael Markowski
Undertow by John Mackey
Fairest of the Fair by John P. Sousa
Vesuvius by Frank Ticheli
Persuasion by Sammy Nestico
Symphony No. 5 by Shostakovich
Festal Scenes by Yasuhide Ito
The Hightstown High School Wind Ensemble is comprised of the most advanced wind and percussion students in Hightstown's Instrumental Music Program. The 57 members of the Wind Ensemble are carefully selected through an audition process that is held in May each year. This full year course provides difficult and challenging repertoire for the advanced band student in Hightstown High School.
List of literature performed:
Purgatorio by Robert W. Smith
Inferno by Robert W. Smith
Spoon River by Percy Grainger
Lux Aurumque by Eric Whitacre
Three Klezmer Miniatures
Rite of Spring by Stravinsky, arr. by Buckley
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair by Debussy, arr. by Sparke
Puszta by Jan Van Der Roost
Scootin on Hardrock by David Holsinger
Strange Humors by John Mackey
Incantation and Dance by John Barnes Chance
Symphonic Dance No. 2 by Clifton Williams
Metroplex by Robert Sheldon
Elixir by Michael Markowski
Undertow by John Mackey
Fairest of the Fair by John P. Sousa
Vesuvius by Frank Ticheli
Persuasion by Sammy Nestico
Symphony No. 5 by Shostakovich
Festal Scenes by Yasuhide Ito
