Symphonic Band
WKU Department of Music
Symphonic Band
The WKU Symphonic Band is an ensemble made up of 60-80 of the finest student musicians on campus, both major and non-major, that meet during the fall and spring semester to perform traditional and contemporary literature. The band is under the direction of Director of Bands, Dr. Gary Schallert, and Associate Director of Bands, Dr. Matthew McCurry. The Symphonic Band performs two concerts per semester in Van Meter Hall.
Membership in the Symphonic Band is by competitive audition only. Auditions take place before the beginning of each semester. For more informationa about the audition process, please click below.
Recent Concert Literature
AMERICAN FANFARE (Wasson)
SEAL LULLABY (Whitacre)
THIRD SUITE (Jager)
CONCERTINO FOR Eb TRUMPET AND BRASS BAND (Sachse)
KIRKPATRICK FANFARE (Boysen)
CANTERBURY CHORALE (Van der Roost)
OF OUR NEW DAY BEGUN (Thomas)
CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION (Saucedo)
PRELUDE, SICILIANO, AND RONDO (Arnold)
HYMN OF THE INNOCENT (Giroux)
MARCH OF THE BELGIAN PARACHUTISTS (Leemans)
IV. EUROPA from GALILEAN MOONS (Cichy)
"Folk Tunes"
FOLK DANCES (Shostakovich/Reynolds)
SHENANDOAH (Thomas)
VARIATIONS ON A KOREAN FOLK SONG (Chance)
THE RUMOR OF A SECRET KING (Mackey)
LOONEY TUNES OVERTURE (arr. Holcombe)
UNTIL THE SCARS (Mackey)
TEUTONIC TALES (Smith)
LA REINE DE LA MER (Sousa)
A SYMPHONY OF FABLES (Giroux)
GAVORKNA FANFARE (Stamp)
MAGNOLIA STAR (Danyew)
DUSK (Bryant)
HIDDEN CURRENTS (Bergman)
LINCOLNSHIRE POSY (Grainger)
SEE ROCK CITY (Karrick)
FANFARE & HYMN OF BROTHERHOOD (Bocook)
A CHILDHOOD REMEMBERED (Galante)
POLLY OLIVER (Root)
BREAKING POINT (Balmages)
REJOUISSANCE (Curnow)
MOTHER EARTH FANFARE (Maslanka)
SCENES FROM THE LOUVRE (Dello Joio)
MOON BY NIGHT (Newman)
GHOST TRAIN (Whitacre)
THE WALKING FROG (King)
COMING SOON
"Marches from Around the World"
EARLE OF OXFORD'S MARCH (Jacob)
CHILDREN'S MARCH (Grainger)
SOUND OFF (Sousa)
STARLIGHT (Pryor)
MARCH from SYMPHONIC METAMORPHOSIS (Hindemith)
INVICTUS MARCH (King)
ELSA'S PROCESSION TO THE CATHEDRAL (Wagner)
XERXES (Mackey)
FANDANGO (Perkins)
"Moments ... when time stood still ..."
DRAMMATICO (McBeth)
WALKING INTO HISTORY (Saucedo)
WE MAY RISE (Hazzard)
MOMENT (Shaprio)
OPA! (Giroux)
S-P-A-C-E (or the lack thereof)
ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA (Strauss)
MARS (Holst/Owens)
THE SPHERES (Gjeilo)
TEARS OF ST. LAWRENCE (Perrine)
HORROR VACUI (Perkins)
TRANSIT OF VENUS (Sousa)
BACH to BIEDENBENDER
PRELUDE & FUGUE IN Bb (Bach/Moehlmann)
BRAVURA (Duble)
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOODNIGHT (Del Borgo)
WITH SOUL SERENE (David)
MELODIUS THUNK (Biedenbender)
POET AND PEASANT OVERTURE (von Suppe)
POMP AND PIPES
FANFARE & GRAND MARCH (Mahr)
ALLELUIA! LAUDAMUS TE (Reed)
LEAD ON, O KING ETERNAL (Swearingen)
DUM SPIRO SPERO (Pilsner)
POLKA & FUGUE from "SCHWANDA" (Weiberger)
FINALE FROM SYMPHONY NO.3 (Saint-Saëns)
"The Organ Symphony"
"The Glory of Rome"
INGLESINA (Dele Cese)
O MIO BABBINO CARO (Pucinni)
NESSUN DORMA (Pucinni)
ROMA SACRA (Zaninelli)
FINALE from PINES OF ROME (arr. Curnow)
VESUVIUS (Ticheli)
FUNICULI, FUNICULA (Reed)
Concert #2
LA TERRE SACRÉE (Chambers)
TOCCATA FOR BAND (Erickson)
FINALE from SYMPHONY #3 (Mahler/Reynolds)
FIVE TO GO (Bullock)
ABRAHM'S PURSUIT (Holsinger)
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