Winds and Strings Present Joint Concert at Gustavus

Members of the Gustavus Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vasa Wind Orchestra will combine efforts to share a joint concert, May 9, on the Gustavus Adolphus College campus. Department of Music conductors Brian Buckstead and Douglas Nimmo will lead their respective ensembles in solo performances in the 7:30 p.m. concert in Jussi Bjorling Recital Hall.

Conductor Brian Buckstead will open the concert with the Philharmonic performances of the four-movement Company by composer Philip Glass, followed by Benjamin Britten’s Simple Symphony. The Vasa Wind Orchestra and Conductor Douglas Nimmo continue Friday’s performance with Don Ricardo by Gabriel Musella, The Girl I Left Behind by Leroy Anderson and Ammerland by Jacob deHaan. The Vasa concludes the concert with The Wiz by Charles Smalls and Francis McBeth’s Masque.

Friday’s 7:30 p.m. concert by the Gustavus Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vasa Wind Orchestra will be performed in Bjorling Recital Hall and is free and open to the public.