Rutgers University Alumni Wind Symphony
The Rutgers University Alumni Wind Symphony was...
"created to afford alumni of the Rutgers Band Program the opportunity to continue performing wind music they love far beyond their college years. These photos are from the first concert in December of 1983, held at the Rutgers Student Center Multipurpose Room. I served as conductor for the Wind Symphony’s first two seasons, from Fall of 1983 through Spring of 1985.
The group was the first of its kind and continues today: the RUAWS is one of only two university alumni concert bands in the nation that is a bonafide, ongoing ensemble, the other being at the University of Michigan (founded in 2009). The RUAWS rehearses twice monthly, exactly as was designed at the inception; they perform two times per year, with a smaller contingent that performs an additional summer concert."