"Pursue your playing with enthusiasm and let the results take you where they will.
Your efforts will be repaid many times over as your instrument takes on an entity and personality,
which like any other true friend, can enrich and vitalize your entire life..."

Philip Farkas

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music, Indiana University
Solo Hornist, Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1947 - 1960

The Metropolitan Winds performs traditional and contemporary symphonic band music in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.

The Metropolitan Winds organization was founded in 1993 by volunteer musicians with interests in performing classical transcriptions, contemporary wind band literature, and traditional military band selections.  The original name was the Coppell Symphonic Band, later changed to the Coppell Civic Wind Symphony.  The final name change to Metropolitan Winds was an acknowledgment of our growth, attracting musicians and fans from across the Dallas Metroplex. 

Our mission is to enhance the sense of community and foster music appreciation in the area through regular performances of the world's great music, and to provide area musicians the opportunity to collaborate with friends, express themselves artistically, and pursue a favorite hobby.

Our usual repertoire leans more toward concert literature than toward light classical and pops, but we endeavor to present balanced programs that have the twofold objective to entertain and to enlighten our audiences. Concert selections have run the gamut: the "serious" band literature of Schoenberg, Hindemith, Milhaud, and Husa; "big" orchestral transcriptions from Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Berlioz, Moussorgsky, Wagner, and Shostakovich; military band war-horses by Vaughan-Williams, Holst, and Grainger; American band classics by Dello Joio, Williams, Schuman, Copland, Giannini, Barber, Bennett, Grundman, and Persichetti; light classical sounds of Rossini, von Suppe, and Mozart; popular favorites from stage and screen; and patriotic songs. 

A specialty of the Metropolitan Winds is the performance of film scores. We have played two well-received concerts of the music of John Williams, including the symphonic suites from Star Wars and Superman as well as works from Jurassic Park, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. We have also performed a selection of band transcriptions for the music from Disney's Fantasia, and have featured film composer Bruce Broughton as a guest artist, conducting wind transcriptions of the suite from Silverado and other selections from Broughton scores.