CAS CONNECT 2013

21 T he OSU Wind Ensemble received a standing ovation, 12 curtain calls and played four encores at the 44th annual Japan Band Clinic on May 19 before a crowd of about 2,700 at the ACT City Concert Hall in Hamamatsu City. “There are rare performances where the audience and performers seem to completely feed off each other’s energy. This concert was such an experience,” says Joseph Missal, OSU music professor and the ensemble’s conductor. Selected to perform by juried invitation, the ensemble was making its second trip to the conference since 2006. Only OSU and Indiana University have performed twice at this conference. A total of 52 graduate and undergradu- ate students and four faculty members made the eight-day trip, which included stops in Tokyo, Fussa City and Hamamatsu City. The ensemble joined Japanese school band members for a joint concert in Fussa City and held several open rehearsals for public school band teachers and their students in Tokyo. The band clinic included selections by Bach, Shostakovich, Grainger, Sousa, Mackey, Bryant, Wagner, Lindroth and others, as well as the world premiere of “Peace and Light Rising” by Edward Knight. President Burns Hargis and Dean Bret Danilowicz of the College of Arts and Sciences covered the largest share of the financial obligations. OSU donors and philanthropists Michael and Anne Greenwood accompanied the ensemble to Japan.