BOREALIS recorded Bob Wagner's arrangement of Jay Ungar's 'Ashokan Farewell' in September 2020 at New England Music Camp (aka Snow Pond Center for the Arts). We convened in Sidney, Maine for a Covid-retreat just after Labor Day. We cooked, rehearsed, kayaked, spent time on and in the lake...
It was an amazing moment in time. Truly miraculous that we pulled this off amidst the grips of the pandemic...
How fortunate:
-For the group to play and hang together after many months of not meeting...
-That the weather was just starting to reveal hints of the crisp Autumn days ahead...
-That we enjoyed the run of Snow Pond (thanks to our gracious hosts)-- rehearsing in Burns Cabin and on the porch of the Boys Dorm; daily staking out good locations for outside playing shots...
Everything aligned to allow for a remarkable moment of beauty and collaboration.
The Borealis Wind Quintet
Keith Bonner, flute
Tamar Beach Wells, oboe
Jo-Ann Sternberg, clarinet
Dan Culpepper, horn
Wayne Hileman, bassoon
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Ashokan Farewell by Jay Ungar
© 1983 by Swinging Door Music, All Rights Reserved.
Arrangement by R.J. Wagner
