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| The Music of Julie Giroux |
| Group Name |
University of Texas at El Paso Wind Symphony |
| Conductor |
Ron Hufstader |
| Event |
Composer Series |
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Album ID - 8724-MCD |
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| Track |
TITLE |
Composer/Arranger |
| 1 |
To Walk With Wings |
Giroux, Julie |
| 2 |
Vigils Keep |
Giroux, Julie |
| 3 |
Let Your Spirit Sing |
Giroux, Julie |
| 4 |
Journey Through Orion |
Giroux, Julie |
| 5 |
KHAN |
Giroux, Julie |
| 6 |
Culloden Movement III, Finale |
Giroux, Julie |
| 7 |
Glenbury Grove |
Giroux, Julie |
| 8 |
La Mezquita de Cordoba (The Mosque at Cordoba) |
Giroux, Julie |
| ALBUM NOTES |
| A recording of Julie Girouxs music has been overdue but this solid collection by UTEP Wind Symphony was worth the wait. Girouxs works have been receiving plenty of attention in the programs of bands and wind ensembles everywhere. While Girouxs earlier works are in the catalog of Southern Music Company, this recorded collection of more recent works are in the catalog of Music Propria, Inc. The compositions featured are Vigils Keep, La Mezquita de Cordoba, Journey Through Orion, Glenbury Grove, the appropriately named Let Your Spirit Sing and a most descriptive work entitled KHAN. Also included are a pair of Girouxs most popular compositions To Walk With Wings: Fanfare & Overture and the Finale from the three movement suite Culloden. The listener will find Girouxs style very appreciable, imaginative and free from the clutter, clichés, and tedium of so many other composers in their writings for school, community and professional bands. Ron Hufstader and the UTEP Wind Symphony have outdone themselves with this ideal recording of Girouxs music. I eagerly await Volume 2!! --Ira Novoselsky - Band World 2010 |
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