Band lovers unite as the Lone Star Wind Orchestra celebrates all things band with classics and marches on Sunday, April 23rd at Moody Performance Hall in Dallas. Led by Music Director Eugene Migliaro Corporon, the LSWO will perform marches by Percy Grainger, Julius Fucik, and Paul Hindemith and include a rare opportunity to hear in its entirety American composer Morton Gould’s West Point Symphony. LSWO trumpeters Eddie Jimenez and Megan Bailey will be featured on a concerto by Erik Morales, and educator Lynne Jackson will be honored at the concert, guest conducting a piece with the Lone Star Wind Orchestra. There will also be a special pre-concert performance by the St. Philip’s Percussion Ensemble.
Tickets
Concert tickets are $10 for students and seniors, $20 for adults. The concert is reserved seating. To purchase, call 214-871-5000 or order online.
Venue and COVID-19 Info
Concert will be held at Moody Performance Hall in Dallas. MPH is located at 2520 Flora Street, Dallas, Texas 75201. Per the venue’s guidelines, mask-wearing is strongly encouraged, though not required.
Concert Program
- Symphony No. 4 “West Point”, Morton Gould
- March from Symphonic Metamorphosis, Paul Hindemith/Wilson
- Children’s March “Over the Hills and Far Away”, Percy Grainger
- A Southern Jubilee, Bruce Broughton
- Finale from Concerto for Two Trumpets, Erik Morales
- Featuring Megan Bailey and Eddie Jiménez
- Florentiner March, Julius Fucik
- Ancient and Honorable Artillery March, John Philip Sousa
Guest Artists
An experienced and versatile trumpeter, Megan Bailey is seasoned in all facets of trumpet playing from opera to jazz, wind band to solo repertoire. Megan currently serves as Assistant Professor of Trumpet and Horn at Delta State University in Cleveland, MS and Adjunct Instructor of Trumpet and Horn at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, MO. Additionally, she maintains an active freelance performing schedule in the Mississippi Delta region and throughout Dallas-Fort Worth. She has performed as a regular member of the Lone Star Wind Orchestra since 2018 and continues to perform regularly with the Turtle Creek Chorale. She has also fulfilled substitute musician roles with the Dallas Opera Orchestra, Dallas Winds, Monroe Symphony Orchestra, and others.
Notable performances include appearances at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago on three separate occasions, master class performances for Adolph “Bud” Herseth, Chris Martin, Tom Hooten, Phil Smith, Allen Vizzutti, Gabör Tarkovi, Hiro Naguchi, Stephen Burns, the London Symphony Orchestra trumpet section, the Western Brass Quintet, and the US Army Brass Quintet. As a member of Dallas-based brass dectet Center Stage Brass, Megan was featured in recitals at the Texas Music Educators Conference in 2017 and 2018. Additionally, she played in the North Texas Wind Symphony and the UNT Center for Chamber Music Studies Brass Quintet from 2015-2018 and can be heard on the GIA label Composer’s Collection discs featuring the music of John Mackey and Michael Daugherty as well as “Taylor Made,” “Inventions,” Discoveries,” and “Hope.”
Megan completed her Bachelor of Music degree at DePaul University and her Master of Music degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of North Texas. Her private instructors have been Brad Dawson, Tage Larsen, Matt Lee, Charles Daval, and John Holt.
Trumpeter, Composer, and Educator Eddie Jiménez is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music where he received a Master’s Degree in Orchestral Trumpet Performance and was awarded The Cecil Collins Award for Excellence in Brass Performance.
Jiménez also received a Bachelor’s Degree in Instrumental Performance from the University of Miami, where he was awarded Most Outstanding Music Student.
Jiménez is a busy and versatile free-lance trumpeter frequently performing with The Plano Symphony, Irving Symphony, Allen Philharmonic, Imperial Brass, Center Stage Brass, The Lone Star Wind Orchestra, The Dallas Wind Symphony and multiple Brass Ensembles and Quintets. Jimenez is a former member of The Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corp. and is currently a member of The Blue Devils Hall of Fame.
Jiménez often performs with some of the country’s greatest instrumentalists and singers and is often a featured soloist. Influenced as a child by the classical music his grandfather played every afternoon on his old 1950’s radio, the desire to make music has led Jiménez on a very exciting journey.
This journey includes performances in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls such as, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to name a few. Jiménez has toured Europe and North America on various occasions with various musical ensembles. He often performs with various Grammy Nominated and Grammy Award winning musicians. On multiple occasions Jiménez has performed for a former President of The United States.
A native of Havana Cuba, Eddie Jiménez is currently a band director, private trumpet professor, masterclass instructor and teaching artist in Dallas Texas. Jiménez began teaching trumpet at the age of 18 and received coaching from many great educators, including world renown cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
His principal teachers include Mark Gould (former Principal Trumpet of The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra), Tom Smith (Fourth Trumpet of The New York Philharmonic), Vincent Penzarella (former Second Trumpet of The New York Philharmonic) and Craig Morris (International Trumpet Soloist and former Principal Trumpet of The Chicago Symphony Orchestra).
Finale
The concert titled “March On” is on Sunday, April 23rd, 3pm at Moody Performance Hall in Dallas. Join us!
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