The new UI Bands "Live in Concert" Series recordings are now available!

Music for a Golden Sky

  • Fanfare for a Golden Sky
  • Fiesta!
  • Early Light
  • Hymn, from Hymn and Pavane
  • Cuban Overture
  • Aegean Festival Overture
  • March for the Sultan Abdul Medjid
  • Southern Harmony
  • Pastime

    • Dreams and Achievements

  • Festival Overture on "The Star-Spangled Banner"
  • Dream Dancer
  • Internal Combustion
  • Symphony in E-flat

    • Winds of a Higher Order

  • Fanfare for Freedom
  • Academic Festival Overture
  • Voci Sacre (Sacred Voices)
  • Waking Angels
  • Vesuvius
  • Military March in F/ Geschwindmarsch
  • Symphony in B-flat

    • About the Symphonic Band Recording Series
    The current series of "LIVE - IN CONCERT" compact disc recordings by the University of Illinois Symphonic Band -- now known as the Illinois Wind Symphony -- started as a visionary project begun in the early 1950s by Mark Hindsley, then Director of Bands. Harry Begian continued the recordings throughout his directorship, and the vast resource continues to expand with the leadership of James F. Keene, current Director of Bands. These recordings provide a valuable resource of repertoire for music educators, professional musicians, and band/wind ensemble enthusiasts.

    As technology advanced and costs escalated, the LP phonograph recordings were discontinued in the late 1980s and cassette tapes were produced. A few performances on the CD series were originally produced on records and tapes and have been re-mastered on compact disc. Nearly all the selections were recorded live in concert, thereby accompanied by the occasional noise and the dreaded cough (even a mute drop on one occasion). However, these minor flaws are more than compensated for by the expression, nuance, energy, and excitement that is to be heard in "LIVE - IN CONCERT."

    For information about recordings of The Marching Illini please follow this link to the media page.

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