The Austin Civic Wind Ensemble celebrates the Christmas concert we've always wanted to play

An evening of holiday music worth the wait

Mark your calendars: Austin Civic Wind Ensemble rehearsals for our fall season kick off Tuesday, August 25th.

This season, we're doing something different.

Our program is built entirely around holiday music, but not the kind you've heard a hundred times: a fifteen-minute masterwork rooted in Russian Orthodox liturgical chant, a moody Celtic tone poem, carols twisted into minor keys you won't recognize until the last measure, and a Hanukkah prayer and dance written in three days by a Roman Catholic clarinetist who fooled Jewish band directors into thinking he'd unearthed ancient tunes.

These are works that deserve a full rehearsal cycle, not a few run-throughs in early December, which is exactly why we're starting now.