Dallas Wind Symphony
The Dallas Wind Symphony is one of only a few professional wind bands active in the U.S. Though it formed as a reading band, it developed into a sort of American version of the British brass band, though the instrumentation is much broader than that term might imply: beside the usual brass instruments (cornets, flugelhorns, tenor horns, tenor and bass trombones, baritones, euphoniums, tubas, etc.) the DWS includes piccolos, flutes, oboes, English horns, clarinets, various bassoons, trumpets, harp, piano, and percussion. The ensemble plays much American music -- works by Sousa, Bernstein, Morton Gould, Persichetti, Leroy Anderson, Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, John Williams, and others. But its repertory is hardly limited: it plays arrangements of J.S. Bach, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Mussorgsky, Richard Strauss, and many others, as well as original works by Grainger, Holst, Malcolm Arnold, and more. The roster lists over 50 members and the schedule consists of about eight regular season concerts and one July 4 concert, all performed at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. The DWS also occasionally goes on tour in the U.S. and overseas. The ensemble has made over a dozen recordings, most of them on Reference Recordings, with a few available on Crystal and on its own label, Widget Records.
The Dallas Wind Symphony was founded in 1985 by Kim Campbell and Howard Dunn. Campbell, a trombonist, has served as executive director since the ensemble's founding, and Dunn was the first conductor of the DWS. From 1990, the DWS has played concerts in the Meyerson Symphony Center.
Dunn died in 1991, the year the DWS made its first recording. Jerry Junkin was named Dunn's successor in 1993 and still serves as the DWS conductor. From the mid-'90s until his death in 2004, Frederick Fennell, well known from many wind ensemble recordings on Mercury Records and Decca, was the DWS's principal guest conductor. Among the earlier recordings of the DWS was Trittico (1993) on RR and a Fennell-led album containing works by Nelhybel, Dello Joio, Grieg, and Giannini that was nominated for a Grammy. Campbell served as associate producer on that production and for 12 others on RR through 2009.
In 2001 David Kehler was named associate conductor of the DWS and remains in that capacity. The DWS still utilizes prominent guest conductors, like British conductor Timothy Reynish, who led the 2008-2009 season finale, entitled Song & Dance, on April 8, 2009.
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Discography
15 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Horns for the Holidays
Dallas Wind Symphony, Jerry Junkin
Christmas Music - Released by Reference Recordings on 2 Oct 2012
24-Bit 176.4 kHz - Stereo -
Strictly Sousa (John Philip Sousa - Frank Byrne - Frederick Fennell)
Classical - Released by Reference Recordings CD on 5 Jun 2001
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Marches I've Missed (Leon Jessel - John Morrissey - Charles Belsterling)
Classical - Released by Reference Recordings CD on 13 Oct 1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Trittico (Vaclav Nelhybel - Lucien Cailliet - Isaac Albeniz)
Classical - Released by Reference Recordings CD on 6 May 1993
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Pomp & Pipes (Sigfrid Karg-Elert - Thomas Brantigan - Alfred Reed)
Classical - Released by Reference Recordings CD on 4 Feb 1994
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Dallas Wind Symphony Sampler
Dallas Wind Symphony, Howard Dunn, Frederick Fennell, Jerry Junkin
Classical - Released by Reference Recordings on 14 Jul 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Fennell Favorites! (Johann Sebastian Bach - Donald Hunsberger - Ralph R. Guenther)
Classical - Released by Reference Recordings CD on 6 May 1993
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Testament (Ron Nelson - Albert D. van Nostrand - Howard Hanson)
Classical - Released by Reference Recordings CD on 1 Nov 1992
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Beachcomber (Leroy Anderson - Reinhold Gliere - Glenn Osser)
Classical - Released by Reference Recordings CD on 20 Jan 1995
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Holidays and Epiphanies (Ron Nelson)
Classical - Released by Reference Recordings CD on 22 Oct 1996
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Arnold for Band (John P. Paynter - Malcolm Arnold - Maurice Johnstone)
Classical - Released by Reference Recordings CD on 9 Oct 1995
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Garden of Dreams (David Maslanka)
Classical - Released by Reference Recordings CD on 14 Nov 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Playing With Fire
Classical - Released by Reference Recordings on 29 Oct 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Hammersmith (Gustav Holst)
Classical - Released by Reference Recordings CD on 17 Dec 1993
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Redshift
Brian Shaw, Dallas Wind Symphony, Jerry Junkin
Classical - Released by Klavier on 9 Sep 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo