Word: boudreau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became reality last week when he went to hear the American Wind Symphony Orchestra per form on a barge anchored in the Ohio River off the sleepy Appalachian town of to W. Va. Accepting what he mistakenly perceived to be a tongue-in-cheek invitation from Symphony Director Robert Boudreau, Bender found himself walking the gangplank to the floating sym phony and conducting a rousing rendition of Stars and Stripes Forever...
...Conductor Robert Boudreau and his rather grandly named American Wind Symphony Orchestra are bringing something precious to the river towns of Appalachia, the Kentucky bourbon belt and the Mississippi Valley. Essentially, Boudreau has a barge and an idea. The barge is an old coal carrier he got 15 years ago and converted into a floating concert hall. The idea has been with him ever since he graduated from Manhattan's Juilliard School in 1952 and found that there were just not enough jobs available for brass and woodwind players. Being a trumpeter, he understood the problem firsthand...
...Boudreau's winds have stirred up the whole area; now housewives in town after town do much of the door-knocking for him. He gives his audiences rousing toe-tappers: selections from My Fair Lady, Stars and Stripes Forever and, predictably, Down by the Riverside. He stages a fireworks display at show's end to hold the very young. But he has greater ambitions than that. His programs are heavily laced with contemporary works like Penderecki's Pittsburgh Overture, Badings' Armageddon and Mayuzumi's Concerto for Percussion-just three of the 200 scores...