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The
Metropolitan Winds, Randol Bass, Director,
Presents "Best of Broadway"
Concert
On Sunday, March 17, at 7:30 PM, the Metropolitan Winds, directed by Randol
Bass will present a concert of the Best of Broadway in the Morton H. Meyerson
Symphony Center, Dallas. With Broadway the subject, the Winds will be
joined by the combined forces of the Frisco Chorale and the Metropolitan
Chorale, supplementing 70+ wind players and percussionists with a Broadway
chorus a hundred and twenty voices strong. The Best of Broadway
extravaganza will be hosted by New York City Radio and Television
personality Midge Woolsey and will feature a guest appearance by New York
Cabaret artist Eric Comstock.
The program will be an all Broadway repertory, with numbers from Chorus
Line, On the Town, Candide, The Sound of Music, and many others. Highlights
of the evening will be the witty and sophisticated transcriptions by Maestro
Bass, utilizing the richness and power of a full chorus, with a hint of the
New York Cabaret added for spice.
General admission tickets are available at the box office or via
TicketMaster, 214-373-8000 or 972-647-5700, or on the web at
ticketmaster.com. Ticket prices are $14.50 for students, $22.50 for
seniors, and $27.50 for adults.
The Metropolitan Winds is an all volunteer, professional caliber wind
ensemble dedicated to bringing the best of the wind band experience to
metroplex residents in the Meyerson Symphony Center, one of the best
performing venues in the country. In addition to Broadway show tunes, the
Winds has a broad repertory, ranging from traditional wind band music to
jazz, orchestral transcriptions, and film scores. The winds has performed
with artists ranging from jazz trumpet great Arturo Sandoval and film
composer Bruce Broughton, through film critic and columnist Joe-Bob Briggs.
The core of the Metropolitan Chorale is the Frisco Chorale, founded by
director Don Hermonat in 1995. From humble beginnings in 1995 when twelve
choir members performed for the first time at a local church meeting, the
Chorale has grown to over sixty members and has become a cultural fixture in
the northern metroplex suburbs. Augmented to the Metropolitan Chorale, the
group is doubled in size to provide the vocal match to the Metropolitan
Winds, a complete ensemble worthy of the hit tunes of The Great White Way.
Midge Woolsey is a well know New York media personality, hosting programs on
classical music station WQXR and New York's PBS affiliate station WNET. She
has participated, both on and off screen in many PBS specials, including The
Three Tenors in Paris, PBS Millennium 2000, Great Performances, the American
Experience, and The Language of Life. Midge has worked as director,
performer, singer, and choreographer in over 100 music theater and opera
productions - a perfect background for helping the Winds share Broadway with
Dallas.
Eric Comstock has been called "The heir apparent to the cabaret throne" by
Stephen Holden of the NY Times. With his first CD, called Young Man of
Manhattan, this witty young man might embody the spirit of Manhattan as we'd
like to remember it -- Manhattan of a golden era, when young men in dinner
clothes strolled home, jacket over the shoulder, after a night of dancing
tangos and fox-trots until dawn -- a great partner for Midge and the Winds!
The Metropolitan Winds' own Randy Bass has participated in almost every phase
of the musical life of Dallas, from the composition of original works for
the DSO to performance in the Orpheus Chamber Singers. His choral and
holiday works have achieved wide acclaim, and his dazzling and witty writing
for wind ensemble has been a prime ingredient in the creation of the
majestic and crowd pleasing sound of the Winds
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