Los Alamos Community Winds
- Los Alamos Community Winds
The Los Alamos Community Winds (LACW) is a wind ensemble made up of members of the Los Alamos, New Mexico community and is comprised of both amateur and professional musicians of all ages and backgrounds ranging from middle and high school students to retirees.
History
The concert band has had a long history in Los Alamos and has seen various incarnations since the 1970's. Jan MacDonald, former band director at Los Alamos High School was director of the Los Alamos Concert Band (LACB) from the 1970's through the 1990's. The LACB performances included many weekly summer concerts as well as performing at various civic functions such as the 4th of July fireworks celebrations. The LACW is the latest organization to provide concert band performances to the Los Alamos community.
Director
* Ted Vives
Goals
*To provide the Los Alamos community with a quality performing ensemble specializing in the best literature for the concert band and wind ensemble as a creative outlet and as a means for showscasing individual musical talent.
* To promote public awaremess of the importance of music, the arts, and other cultural events both as entertainment and as artistic endeavors.
* To instill and sustain the American heritage of concert band music at community festivals, commemorations and other public gatherings.
* To provide student musicians in the Los Alamos community with a good representation and model of ensemble performance.
External links
* [http://www.lacw.org/ Los Alamos Community Winds (LACW)]
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