American Wind Band/Westchester Community Band Celebrates 25th Anniversary
The American Wind Band will hold a Jubilee concert on March 9, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. in the Downers Grove South High School auditorium, celebrating 25 years of making music. The concert will be free and open to the public. Along with the band's current director, Angelo Iovinelli, two of the band's founders, Vince Furman and John Chadwick, and friend of the band, Ed Ward, will be conducting pieces that represent highlights from the band's history, including Barnum and Bailey's Favorite, American Overture for Band, Portrait of the Land, Chaminade's Concertino for flute, Variations on a Korean Folk Song, Universal Judgment, and Ballet Parisien.
From 1989-1999, the band was known as the Westchester Community Band, based in Westchester, IL. In 1999 the band moved to Oakbrook Terrace and adopted the name American Wind Band of Oakbrook Terrace. Upon moving to Downers Grove in 2009, no longer operating as part of the Oakbrook Terrace Park District, it shortened its name to American Wind Band.
All band alumni are invited to perform in this concert, provided they attend two Tuesday night rehearsals between February 11 and March 4. Interested alumni should email americanwindband@yahoo.com or call Angelo Iovinelli at (630) 852-3939 for more information and to let the band know that they intend to participate. The band is also accepting new members.
For additional information about the American Wind Band, visit http://www.americanwindband.org/.
