PULLMAN The WSU Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band will present “Across the Border” at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 16, in Bryan Hall Theater. Admission is free.
The Wind Symphony program will first take the listeners to Argentina for a fantasy on multiple eras and styles of tango in a rollicking work by Michael Gandolfi. Bruce Carlson’s Toledo is an evocative musical depiction of two Spanish sources: El Greco’s painting A View of Toledo and the famous Spanish poem The Spiritual Canticle. The program concludes with H. Owen Reed’s powerful programmatic work La Fiesta Mexicana. Set in three movements, La Fiesta depicts the tolling of town bells, rustic town bands, Aztec dances, the mass, and finally the exuberance of Carnival.
