Welcome to the Indiana Wind Symphony

The Indiana Wind Symphony wish to honor and remember those musicians who passed away in 2007 for there contribution to music and for making our world a little brigher.

Jean Balissat - Swiss conductor and composer. Wrote several works for band and many for solo wind instruments.

Bryan Balkwill - English opera conductor who taught conducting at IU from 1976 until 1992.

Rose Bampton - important American operatic soprano of the 1930s and 40s.

Bill Barber - tuba player, best known for his jazz work with Miles Davis and John Coltrane.

Natalie Bodanya - leading American operatic soprano of 1940s and 50s

Michael Brecker - top jazz saxophonist and IU graduate; formed the Brecker Brothers Band with trumpet player brother Randy; won 11 Grammys.

Henson Cargill - country singer popular in 1960s and 70s; big hitwas "Skip a Rope."

Kitty Carlisle - opera and popular music singer and actress; frequent guest panelists on television game shows.

Walter Chestnut - influential trumpet teacher and performer at the University of Massachusetts.

Buddy Childers - jazz trumpeter; most famous as lead player with the Stan Kenton Orchestra.

Helen Clouse - staff member of the IU School of Music for nearly 50 years; worked daily in room scheduling until the age of 97!

Regine Crespin - French operatic soprano; one of the most respected mid-twentieth century opera stars.

Thomas Dawes - Commercial composer and rock musician; played with Foghat and wrote "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz" and other jingle themes.

Bengt Ecklund - Swedish trumpeter and conductor; founder and Music Director of the renowned Goteburg Brass Band.

Ray Evans - lyricist who partnered with composers. Jay Livingston and Henry Mancini. Wrote        "Silver Bells,"" Mr. Ed," "Bonanza," "Que Sera," and "Dear Heart."

Dan Fogelberg - American popular singer and song writer; wrote "Longer," "Leader of the Band"         and "Same Auld Lang Syne."

George Gaber - Eminent percussionist and one of the most prominent IU School of Music studio          professors; he taught hundreds of professional percussionists in all styles.

Dwayne Garvin - Indianapolis drummer who played with Marvin Gaye and the Temptations.

Harald Genzmer - German student of Hindemith who wrote hundreds of pieces, composing well into his 90s; wrote a number of significant works for winds.

Robert Goulet - Broadway baritone and actor; rose to fame in 1960 as Lancelot in "Camelot."

Merv Griffin - Talk show host and game show creator who began his career as a singer and big band leader.

Frank Guarrera - American lyric baritone who sang 680 performances in 35 leading roles at the Met from the late 1940s through the 1970s, and later taught voice in college.

Jerry Hadley - American tenor famed for both opera and Broadway leading roles in the 1980s and 90s.

Aletra Hampton - Jazz vocalist and pianist. Last surviving member of the Indianapolis jazz ensemble The Hampton Sisters.

Dan Hanna - Retired Band Director at DePauw University.

Julius Hegyi - conductor of Albany (NY) Symphony.

Walter Hendl - conductor of Dallas Symphony and President of Eastman School of Music; sent Eastman Wind Ensemble on first international tour

Frigyes Hidas - Hungarian composer with whom the IWS had a long friendship; the IWS gave American premieres of several of his important works for band.

H. Wiley Hitchcock - eminent American musicologist and assistant editor of "Groves Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians"; author on many musical topics.

Don Ho - Hawaiian singer and tourism face of the islands.

Harry Houdeshel - Professor of Flute at Indiana University for 25 years; member of American Woodwind Quintet.

Betty Hutton - big band singer and actress; star of "Annie Get Your Gun."

Luther Ingram - R&B singer; wrote "If Loving You is Wrong."

Thea King - leading British clarinetist; played clarinet solo on the premiere of the Gordon Jacob "Double Concerto" being played on tonight's concert.

Frankie Laine - American popular singer from the 1950s through the 80s.

Dick Laughlin - choir director at North Central HS; pianist and music director at Beef N Boards; choral arranger for Carmel HS.

Gian Carlo Menotti - America's most important opera composer and founder of the Spoletto Festival; wrote "Amahl and the Night Visitors,""The Consul,""The Telephone."

Leon Merian - American jazz trumpeter and jazz pedagogue.

Gareth Morris - British flutist; one of the greatest orchestral players of the 20th century

Louis Moyse - world renowned French flutist and important flute pedagogue.

Tommy Newsom - Arranger, composer, jazz saxophonist and assistant conductor of the Tonight Show Band with Johnny Carson and Doc Severinsen.

Luciano Pavarotti - Perhaps the greatest opera star of the 20th century; one of the "three tenors."

Oscar Peterson - Canadian jazz pianist who was an icon of jazz piano in the last half of the 20th century; winner of about every conceivable award.

James Ployhar - prolific composer of educational band music.

Homer "Boots" Randolph - Country saxophonist famous for "Yakety Sax"

Del Reeves - country singer and frequent Grand Ole Opry star.

Max Roach - One of the greatest jazz drummers and leader of the Cool Jazz movement.

Bobby Rosengarden - jazz and show drummer; bandleader for "Dick Cavett Show."

Mstislav Rostropovich - The greatest cellist of the 20th century and important conductor; defected from USSR and became Music Director of the National Symphony.

Will Schaefer - prolific composer and arranger for TV, Hollywood and Disney. Wrote music for such shows as "I Dream of Jeanie,""It's a Small World,""Gunsmoke."

Dick Seeger - Fort Wayne trumpeter and conductor; important private teacher and high school orchestra conductor

Beverly Sills - America's greatest opera star and leading coloratura; later an influential arts advocate and arts administrator

Lillian Starost - Indianapolis Public Schools elementary music teacher and professional violinist        for decades.

Herman Stein - Hollywood composer and collaborator with Henry Mancini; wrote "Gunsmoke" and "Daniel Boone" television music.

Teresa Stich-Randall - American soprano who was a favorite of conductors Toscanini and Karajan; enjoyed a long career with the Vienna State Opera and at La Scala.

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Significant German avant garde composer; early proponent of electronic and aleatoric music.

Walter Turnbull - founder of Boys Choir of Harlem

Ike Turner - American soul singer, guitarist and record producer. Married to Tina Turner, with whom he sang their trademark song, "Proud Mary."

David Uber - trombonist, composer who specialized in brass music and pedagogue.

Porter Wagoner - Country singer famed for sequined suits and the discovery of Dolly Parton.

William Waterhouse - Famed musicologist who specialized in the history of musical instruments; author and editor and authority on history of bassoon.

Virtue Hampton Whitted - Member of Indianapolis' leading jazz families and bassist with theHampton Sisters, an Indiana Avenue institution.

Nicola Zaccaria - leading operatic bass of the mid-twentieth century; sang for many years at La Scala with the leading stars of the day.

Joseph Zawinul - Jazz keyboard player and founder of Weather Report.