SEQUIM — The Port Angeles High School Wind Ensemble and Sequim City Band are reuniting to present a free public concert at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
The show will be at the Port Angeles High School auditorium, 304 E. Park Ave.
Any donations go to support the Port Angeles High School Band Boosters, an all-volunteer group that helps Port Angeles High School bands afford travel and entry fees for events such as the recent WindFest.
The two wind ensembles last performed together in concert on May 18, 2014, and while many Sequim City Band members are returning for this concert, members of the current Port Angeles wind ensemble were in grade or middle school at the time.
Both bands will perform separately and then together as a combined wind ensemble.
Under the direction of Doug Gailey, the Port Angeles High School Wind Ensemble will play pieces it recently performed at the Central Washington University WindFest, an invitational concert band three-day festival showcasing 48 high school wind ensembles.
That includes Aaron Copeland’s 1962 composition “Down a Country Lane,” a modern composition written specifically for young piano students. Since then, the piece has been arranged for other youth musical groups, including orchestras and concert bands.
Tyler Benedict will direct the Sequim City Band with a reprisal of Gustav Holst’s “Second Suite in F” composed in 1922. In an entirely different genre, the band will perform the pastoral piece “Ammerland,” by the Dutch composer Jacob de Haan.
The two bands join forces to play Julie Giroux’s “Khan” — a programmatic piece composed in 2008 depicting Genghis Khan. The driving percussion section propels the music forward with opening themes “Warlord” and “Horseback” that represent Khan’s army on the move.
