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Holiday Concert Season 2025

Closeup picture of holiday lights

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Covenant United Methodist Church

4410 Duval Road, Austin Texas 78727

The Austin Civic Wind Ensemble is ringing in the holiday season! Rehearsals begin Tuesday, November 4, as we prepare a festive program full of holiday cheer and musical surprises.

Join us for our first appearance of the season at the Austin Zilker Holiday Tree Lighting on Sunday, November 30, followed by our full Holiday Concert on Saturday, December 13.

This Season's Program

Our 2025 Holiday Concert program features a sparkling mix of classics, carols, and a few unexpected twists:

  • A Christmas Festival, A — Leroy Anderson
  • It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year — Edward Pola & George Wyle
  • Minor Alterations No. 2: Carols from the Dark Side — David Lovrien
  • Fum, Fum, Fum — Traditional
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas — Albert Hague
  • Variations on a French Carol — Matthew Saunders
  • Up on a Housetop — Benjamin Hanby
  • Carol of the Drum — Katherine K. Davis
  • Sleigh Ride — Leroy Anderson
  • Stars and Stripes for Christmas — John Philip Sousa & Robert E. Foster
  • Joy to the World — Traditional
  • The Eighth Candle — Steve Reisteter
  • Concerto in B-flat for Two Trumpets and Winds — Antonio Vivaldi

We can’t wait to share this joyful music with you — from familiar favorites to fresh new takes on holiday classics. Come celebrate the season with us!

Fall, 2024 Concert Season: Raise a Glass!

This season's program

España Cañí

Pascual Marquina Narro (1873-1948)

España Cañí is a famous Spanish paso doble by Pascual Marquina Narro (1873-1948). The song, also known as the Spanish Gypsy Dance, was composed on a train ride to Madrid around 1921. Inspired by the rattle of the train, it originally bore name of The Cañí Patternmaker.

Tam O'Shanter

Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)

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Season Summary 2022-23

Cherry blossom

Fall 2022

Halloween at the George Washington Carver Museum

  • Lodestar Fanfare - Richard L. Saucedo
  • Incantation and Dance - John Barnes Chance
  • Arabesque - Samuel R. Hazo
  • The Witch and the Saint - Steven Reineke
  • Music for a Darkened Theater - Danny Elfman, arr. Michael Brown
  • Inspector Clouseau Theme - Henry Mancini, arr. James Kazik
  • Songs of Earth, Water, Fire, and Sky - Robert Smith
  • LOL (Laugh out Loud) - Robert Buckley

Spring 2022

Program includes

  • Duke of Cambridge
  • Something Grainger
  • Stars and Stripes Forever
  • Folk Song Suite
  • The Klaxon

Season Summary 2022-23

Halloween

Fall 2022

Fall 2022 starts with a Halloween theme:

  • Lodestar Fanfare - Richard L. Saucedo
  • Incantation and Dance - John Barnes Chance
  • Arabesque - Samuel R. Hazo
  • The Witch and the Saint - Steven Reineke
  • Music for a Darkened Theater - Danny Elfman, arr. Michael Brown
  • Inspector Clouseau Theme - Henry Mancini, arr. James Kazik
  • Songs of Earth, Water, Fire, and Sky - Robert Smith

Listening examples are available. Two concerts are planned

Holidays 2022

Rehearsals start November 1st 2022. Three concerts are planned.

  • November 27: Zilker Tree Lighting
  • December 11: Unity Church of the Hills, 1:30pm
  • December 13: Westminster, 7pm
  • December 18: Covenant, 5pm

Spring 2023

Texas Community Music Festival Information

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Two concerts are being planned:

  • May 20, 2023 Dougherty Performing Arts Center 6pm
  • May 21, 2023 Anderson High School (tentative).

 

Season Summary 2017-18

Cherry blossom

Spring 2018

We start 2018 with an Asian theme.

  • Fantasy on a Japanese Folk Song, Samuel Hazo
  • Prayer for Asia, Anthony LaBounty
  • Rising Dragons, Robert W. Smith
  • Suite from China West, Chen Yi
  • Come, Drink One More Cup, Qian Chen
  • Dragon Boat Festival, Michael Boo
  • In a Japanese Garden, Ed Huckeby
  • Shichi Go San, I Sakai
  • Sensei's Ride on the Cherry Blossom Express, Robert W. Smith

Listening examples are available. Concert notes are also available.

Texas Community Music Festival Information

Watch tcmfestival.com for more information

Fall 2017

Two concerts are planned. Listening examples are available. Concert notes are also available.

  • Cuban Overture, George Gershwin (1898 - 1937), arr. R. Mark Rogers
  • Danzas Cubanas, Robert Sheldon (b.1954)
  • Aquatica, Scott Watson (b. 1962)
  • Seis Manuel, Shelley Hanson (b. 1951)
  • Latin American Dances 2, Clifton James Jones
  • March of the Pan Americans, John Philip Sousa (1854 - 1932)
  • Pan American (Spanish March), Karl L. King (1891 - 1971), arr. A. Clark
  • Variations on a Shaker Melody from Appalachian Spring, Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)

Holidays 2017

Rehearsals start November 7th 2017. There is no rehearsal October 31st 2017 so you can go trick-or-treating with the young-uns.

The Zilker Tree Lighting is November 26th, 2017

Spring 2017 Concert Notes

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Molly on the Shore

Irish Reel set for Military Band

Percy Grainger

Percy Grainger (1882-1961) was a piano prodigy born in Australia. He came to the United States at the outbreak of World War I, enlisted as an Army bandsman, and became an American citizen in 1918. His many masterworks for winds include “Lincolnshire Posy,” “Irish Tune from County Derry,” “Children’s March” and “Molly on the Shore.”

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