CU Winds is open to all Cornell University’s students, and most of our ensemble members have majors other than music.
Cornell courses Music 3663 and Music 3631 aim to produce substantial growth in participants’ overall musicianship by improving skills such as intonation, technique, musicality, listening, ensemble balance and blend, rhythm, sight reading, and repertoire broadening. Wind Ensemble 3663 involves up to 50 rehearsals and 15-20 concerts, including tour(s). Wind Symphony plays two or more concerts each term, with up to 30 rehearsals.
Auditions are required for most ensembles.
Mondays 4:40-6:15pm and Wednesdays 4:40-6:40pm, Lincoln Hall B20
Cynthia Johnston Turner, conductor/teacher
Tuesdays 4:40-6:15pm and Thursdays 4:40-6:40pm, Lincoln Hall B20
Cynthia Johnston Turner, conductor/teacher
By arrangement with Cynthia Johnston Turner. Students must be enrolled in Wind Symphony or Wind Ensemble in the same semester.
Fall and spring. 4 credits per year. Corequisite: membership in Wind Ensemble. Cynthia Johnston Turner.
The goal of this music performance and service learning course is to provide the opportunity in which learning experiences address human and community needs, and to allow the necessary time for reflection on those experiences. The focus of the course is on musical and personal leadership within communities—from the local to the foreign and from the known to the unknown. Communities in this context are defined by the community of students and musicians within the wind ensemble, the local communities in Ithaca and other New York state schools, and school, conservatory, and municipal communities in Costa Rica.