7 February 2008
West Winds, Band of the Bukit Batok Community Club
presents
All Things Japanese
29 March 2008, Saturday, 7.30pm
Esplanade Concert Hall
In Collaboration with Esplanade - Theatre on the Bay
Conductor, MAJ Philip Tng and Guest Conductor, Mr ITO Yasuhide
Tickets Price: $20/$15
(Concession for Senior Citizens/Students/NSF only: $12)
Tickets Avaliable on Esplanade Box Office and all SISTIC’s authorised agents from 18 Feb 08.
Be mesmerised as West Winds brings you the best of Japan in this evening of enchanting music – from Japanese wind band works, to Japanese composers’ interpretations of Asian music, as well as tributes to the Japanese landscapes from Western composers.
Established since 1993 with the support of the People’s Association and Bukit Batok Community Club, West Winds is made up of a group of passionate musicians from different walks of life, from civilian to military, professional to student. The band has won a Gold medal when it participated in the Singapore International Youth Music Festival in 1996, and has since toured Australia, USA and Japan.
Repertoire highlights:
March-Bou-Shu
YAGISAWA Satoshi
Jalan-Jalan ~Vision of the Isle of the Gods ~
TAKAHASHI Shin’ya
Japanese Tune
KONAGAYA Soichi
Impressions of Japan
James Barnes
Ryukuan Fantasy for Piano and Band
ITO Yasuhide
Sinfonia Singaporiana for Band
ITO Yasuhide
Gloriosa - Symphonic Poem for Band
ITO Yasuhide
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13 November 2007
West Winds will be performing at Esplanade for their Beautiful Sundays series of concerts. Featuring movie themes from Star Wars, Magnificent Seven, and Pirates of the Carribean, this is a concert not to be missed.
Did I mention it’s free ?
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10 February 2007
Programme
Les Alizes – Kumiko Tanaka
Suite of English Folk-Dances – Ernest Tomlinson
i. Jenny Pluck Pears
ii. Ten Pound Lass
iii. Dicks’s Maggot
iv. Nonesuch
v. Hunt the Squirrel
vi. Woodicock
Danse Bacchanale from ‘Samson et Dalila’ – Camille Saint-Saens arranged by Leigh D. Steiger
Machu Picchu – City in the Sky – The Mystery of the Hidden Sun Temple – Satoshi Yagisawa
- Interval -
Symphony #3 ‘Slavyanskaya’’ – 1st Movement: Allegro – Boris Kozhevnikov edited by John R. Bourgeois
Their Blossoms Down – Samuel R. Hazo
Highlights from ‘Spirited Away’ – Joe Hisashi arranged by Yukio Endo
Cavetowns ‘Cappadocia’ – Strangely Shaped Rocks Where Elves Dwell – Satoshi Yagisawa
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29 February 2004
FINLANDIA
Jean Sibelius ops. 26, arr. Hensley
SUITE OF OLD AMERICAN DANCES
Richard R. Bennett
PRINCESS MONONOKE
Jo Hisaishi arr. Takashi Hoshide
INDIANA JONES
John Williams arr. H.V.D. Heide
72nd CELEBRATION
Prateep S. BA
LAO DUANG DAUN
arr. Prateep S. BA
ENTRY MARCH OF THE BOYARS
Johan Halvorsen arr. F. Fennell
PRAISE JERUSALEM!
Alfred Reed
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10 January 1995
76 Trombones
Meredith Willson, arr. Naohiro Iwai
First Suite in E Flat
Gustav Host
ABBA Gold
ABBA, Arr. Ron Sebregts
Oregon, Fantasy for Band
Jacob de Haan
American Graphity
Arr. Naohiro Iwai
Un Poco Cinco
John Fluck
We’re all alone
Bozz Scaggs
A Discovery Fantasy
Jan De Haan
Sinfonia Marziale
Elliot A. Del Borgo
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