PWHS Symphonic Band

The Parkway West Symphonic Band is one of two wind and percussion ensembles at PWHS.  Comprised of students grades 9-12, the group presents two concerts per semester.  Each year the band performs at the MSHSAA large group festival.  All students are also placed within chamber ensembles.  This is the most advanced band within the department. Private lessons are not required by are highly encouraged.

​Membership is by audition.  The band is comprised of grades 9-12.

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Repertoire

2015-16
Joy Revisted (Ticheli)
A Christmas Festival (Anderson)
Tricycle (Boysen)
Balladair (Erickson)
​Courtly Airs and Dances (Nelson)
The Black Horse Troop (Sousa/Fennell)
Rondo for Solo and Wind Band (Mozart/Clark)
An American Elegy (Ticheli)
Symphonic Overture (Carter)

2016-17
Sleigh Ride (Anderson, arr. Ployhar)
Ascend (Hazo)
Simple Gifts (Ticheli)
Different Voices (Kirby)
Perthshire Majesty (Hazo)
Italin in Algiers (Cailliet)
Voices of the Sky (Hazo)
Korean Folk Rhapsody (Curnow)
Hill Country Flourish (Barton)

2017-18
Imaginarium (Standridge)
Play! (Holmquist)
English Folk Song Suite (Vaughan Williams)
Willows of Winter (Brooks)
A Longford Legend (Sheldon)
The Orange Bowl (Fillmore)
Celebration and Song (Sheldon)
Yorkshire Ballad (Barnes)
Fairest of the Fair (Sousa/Fennell)

2018-19
Overture in Bb (Giannini)
Shenandoah (Ticheli)
West Highland Sojourn (Sheldon)
March of the Belgian Paratroopers (Leemans)
The Hounds of Spring (Reed)
Red Rock Mountain (Galante)
March, Op. 99 (Prokofiev/arr. Meredith)
Sheltering Sky (Mackey)
Vesuvius (Ticheli)
The Klaxon (Fillmore/arr. Fennell)
Blue and Green Music (Hazo)