The UTM Music Department put on a wind ensemble that blew the audience right out of their seats.

Brian Amaral, the conductor of the ensemble, was very interactive with the audience and put on an excellent show. The ensemble started off with a piece from Jack Stamp entitled “Cloudsplitter Fanfare”. This was an exciting and suspenseful piece that almost made you feel like you were in a movie and something shocking is about to happen. That was total opposite of the following piece entitled “Pacem, A Hymn for Peace”.

This musical was very soothing and relaxing. It seemed as if the song was meant to be played at the end of a movie. Every piece of music had some type of meaning to it. The “Awakening”, by Joseph Curiale, used the xylophones which gave it a very rich sound. The music was very similar to that of the Nightline news show.

The most powerful music was that of Albinoni Giazotto, called “Adagio in Sol Minore per Archi e Organo”. It gave off a sense of being dark and gloomy, somewhat of a scary movie. The organ, which was played by Dr. Scott Roberts, really gave off the effect. Without the organ it would have not have had that deep dark sound that it displayed.

Amaral then took everyone on a mental trip to the military with the piece he conducted entitled “Florentiner March.”