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AMERICAN WIND
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Time: 7:30pm
Place: Memphis’s Tom Lee Park
The American
Wind Symphony Orchestra (AWSO) under the direction
of Robert Austin Boudreau will be performing on
the banks of the Mississippi River of Memphis’s
Tom Lee Park, Saturday, June 5, 2010 at 7:30pm.
The AWSO performs and entertains its audiences
from a 195 ft. barge in which Boudreau is both
orchestra conductor and skipper. Mr. Boudreau
will be in Memphis for a press conference/luncheon
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 11am, 55 South Main,
home of the new WatotoMemphis Performing Arts
Academy. A brief welcome performance honoring
Mr. Boudreau has been scheduled for Thursday afternoon,
5pm at the WatotoMemphis Performing Arts Academy,
featuring the Watoto performers.
For 53 years
the American Wind Symphony Orchestra has been
making musical headlines along the water ways
of the United States, the Caribbean, and Northern
Europe and is called “a remarkable cultural
phenomenon” by New York Magazine’s
music critic Alan Rich. Founded in 1957 by Mr.
Boudreau, the AWSO has become an institution known
for bringing its music to the masses via its floating
arts center and stage. Mr. Boudreau has commissioned
over 400 new musical compositions, which have
been premiered during each season’s concert
tour.
Sharing the
stage with the AWSO on that evening will be the
Watoto De Afrika Ambassador’s Ensemble of
Memphis, TN. In February 2010, during a press
conference held at the National Civil Rights Museum,
museum officials announced a partnership with
Watoto De Afrika. The relationship has led to
monthly performances at the museum and a national
performance tour of the production “Love
Everybody” a tribute to the life and mission
of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The production
opened at the museum on January 15, 2010, Dr.
King’s birthday, and launched its national
tour in Atlanta March 17, 2010.
The highly energize
and brightly costumed Watoto performers will perform
a program that represents classical African American
dance and music styles like traditional African,
Brazilian, Negro Spirituals, Gospel, and Big Band
classics as the opening act for the June 5, 2010
AWSO concert on the river.
For information
on the AWSO visit: www.americanwindsymphonyorchestra.org.
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