Wind Symphony to perform Sunday in Forest City

The Waldorf Wind Symphony performs during
Christmas with Waldorf. The ensemble will play at
Immanuel Lutheran Church on Sunday.

(Jason Eck)

The Waldorf Wind Symphony will present a free concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Forest City. The free concert is part of the Apollo’s Lyre concert series that features student musicians throughout the year.

The theme for the performance is “Old, New, Borrowed and Blue” and is filled with a variety of great music, said Brent Dodson, symphony

conductor and assistant professor of music. The ensemble of wind, brass and percussion players will perform music by John Philip Sousa, William Schuman and Warren Benson, among others.

The program also will feature Waldorf senior Jason Homard, who will perform “First Horn Concerto” by German composer Richard Strauss. Homard described the piece as challenging, and said his goal is to perform the music without making it sound difficult.

“We’ve all been working very hard to get the style that Strauss was looking for when he wrote the concerto,” Homard said. “It’ll be a lot of fun to perform this piece and listen to our hard work.”

The concert will conclude with an epic tone poem by William Francis McBeth titled “Of Sailors and Whales,” which musically depicts the principal characters in Herman Melville’s classic novel “Moby Dick.”