San Jose Wind Symphony - Common Threads
Sun, Oct 05
|McAfee Performing Arts Center
At its core, music is about connection—between composer and performer, performer and listener, and among the works themselves. Common Threads explores these points of connection in a joint performance by the San José State University Wind Ensemble and the San José Wind Symphony.
Time & Location
Oct 05, 2025, 3:00 PM
McAfee Performing Arts Center, 20300 Herriman Ave, Saratoga, CA 95070, USA
About The Event
The program spans more than a century of repertoire, tracing shared ideas and contrasting voices that continue to shape the wind band tradition.
The San José State University Wind Ensemble opens with Ron Nelson’s Resonances I, a bold and colorful work that showcases the palette of the modern wind ensemble. Leonard Bernstein’s spirited Slava! adds humor and exuberance, while Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps offers a glimpse of her luminous style in one of her final works. Jake Runestad’s Let My Love Be Heard provides a moment of reflection and hope, and Gustav Holst’s First Suite in E-flat closes the set as a landmark piece that helped define the concert band as we know it today.
The San José Wind Symphony continues the afternoon with Gordon Jacob’s An Original Suite, another early cornerstone of the repertoire, before turning to Frank Ticheli’s Rest, a contemporary work of serene beauty. Michael Gandolfi’s Vientos y Tangos infuses…