Contra Costa Wind Symphony: Best of the East Bay

We are honored that Diablo magazine has selected CCWS
as 2007's Best Community Music Group

From Diablo magazine's July 2007 "Best of the East Bay" issue ---

"Best Community Music Group

The Contra Costa Wind Symphony is a community group in the sense that its 55 musicians are volunteers. But this 26-year-old Walnut Creek ensemble doesn’t limit itself to marching band tunes. Conductor Duane Carroll has led the group in exploring the far reaches of the musical world.

The symphony, which performs three times a year at the Lesher Center for the Arts, has devoted entire programs to the music of Russia, Japan, and South America. It has also commissioned original works by talented young composers, such as a symphony to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1906 earthquake. Plus, Carroll invites other musicians, singers, and dance groups to perform with the symphony, often with dance-in-your-seat results. This past April’s South American fest featured dazzling string work by Lafayette’s Carlos Reyes, an internationally renowned master of the Paraguayan harp and violin. Coming this coming season? A Celtic-based concert, perhaps with some bagpipes thrown in.

—Martha Ross"



		Best Of The East Bay



	We are honored that Diablo magazine has selected CCWS as 2007's Best Community Music Group From Diablo magazine's July 2007 "Best of the East Bay" issue --- "Best Community Music Group The Contra Costa Wind Symphony is a community group in the sense that its 55 musicians are volunteers. But this 26-year-old Walnut Creek ensemble doesn’t limit itself to marching band tunes. Conductor Duane Carroll has led the group in exploring the far reaches of the musical world. The symphony, which performs three times a year at the Lesher Center for the Arts, has devoted entire programs to the music of Russia, Japan, and South America. It has also commissioned original works by talented young composers, such as a symphony to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1906 earthquake. Plus, Carroll invites other musicians, singers, and dance groups to perform with the symphony, often with dance-in-your-seat results. This past April’s South American fest featured dazzling string work by Lafayette’s Carlos Reyes, an internationally renowned master of the Paraguayan harp and violin. Coming this coming season? A Celtic-based concert, perhaps with some bagpipes thrown in. —Martha Ross"
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