Lakewood Ranch Wind Ensemble Thanksgiving Concert

Enjoy this special performance by the Lakewood Ranch Wind Ensemble, one of the area’s most accomplished ensembles performing some of the best-known works for wind players at Peace Presbyterian Church in Lakewood Ranch.

Selections will include the “American Overture for Band” by Joseph Willcox Jenkins, “Bennet’s Triumphal March” by Melvin Ribble, “Molly on the Shore” by Percy Aldridge Grainger, “Florentiner March” by Julius Fucik, “Hands Across the Sea” by John Philip Sousa and Loras Schissel, “Second Suite in F” by Gustav Holst, “Festive Overture” by Dmitri Shostakovich, and selections from George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” (arrangement by R. Russell Bennett).

“I always start our program with the national anthem (folks stand up and sing it) and I end with ‘America the Beautiful,’” Miller says. “We have several veterans in our band — musicians that played with U.S. Army bands, Marine Corps bands, Air Force bands and Navy bands. It’s a really wonderful group.”