The Cascade Winds Symphonic Band, under the direction Michael Gesme, will present their annual spring concert on Sunday, May 22, 2016, at 2:00pm in the Summit High School Auditorium. The concert is free, but donations are gratefully accepted.

The season finale will open with driving rhythmic...

The Cascade Winds Symphonic Band, under the direction of Michael Gesme, will present its final concert of the 2014-2015 season on Sunday, May 31, 2015 at 2:00pm in the Summit High School Auditorium. Admission is free, but donations are gratefully accepted.

The performance will open with “American Riversongs,” a pastiche...

The final concert of the Cascade Winds will be held on Sunday, May 4, 2014 in the Summit High School Auditorium. Admission to the concert is free, but donations are gratefully accepted. COCC professor of music, Michael Gesme, will lead the ensemble in a varied program beginning, appropriately, with "Quirks"...

We are looking for some spouses, friends, parents, children,
neighbors, etc., to be ushers and mailing list overseers for our concerts on
Sunday afternoon and Monday evening. We could probably use 4 people for each
concert. Any "volunteers"? Contact us.

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Central Oregon Symphony under the direction of Michael Gesme
October 20-22: Bend High School
Saturday & Monday, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, 2:00 p.m. FREE but tickets required.
Brahms, Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Opus 15, with guest artist Dan Franklin Smith; Sibelius, Symphony No. 3 in C Major, Opus...

To all Cascade Winds Musicians: Thanks to all of you for pulling together, and pulling off, good spring concerts.

Specifically, of course, a huge THANK YOU to Sue for hanging in there through all the absences and missing parts and rough spots and bringing us up to a level at...