The USF Wind Ensemble will be a featured band on the National Convention program of the 

American Bandmasters Association, the most prestigious organization for wind conductors in the 

world.  This will occur on Wednesday, March 6, in the School of Music concert hall. A preview of the 

program for that concert will be presented on March 3, entitled, "A Star is Born." The music featured 

will represent some aspect of the emergence of an ensemble, a composition, a composer or a 

performer to some kind of national-level recognition. Our program will feature SSgt. Matthew 

Carmichael of Pershing s Own Army Band performing the Saxophone Concerto by Ingolf Dahl. This 

rarely heard composition has been deemed one of the true masterworks for the medium. Also to be 

performed will be Korean Dances by an Asian composer Chang Su Kohn who has surged to the 

forefront as an important new source of wind band music. The audience will be further entertained 

with selections by Morton Gould, Frederick Speck, Karl King, and Nicolai Rimsky Korsakov.