The 70 member Lowcountry Wind Symphony (LWS), directed by Donald F. Jemella presents ‘The Alpha and The Omega’ for its final concert of the 2025-2026 season. The program features a wide selection of works composed by great music masters as well as music based on traditional folk melodies. The title, ‘The Alpha and The Omega’, refers to the order of the program, beginning with Holst’s First Suite in Eb for Military Band and ending with the ‘Largo’ from Dvorak’s New World Symphony’s and its familiar ‘Goin’ Home’ theme.
LWS is a concert band made up of amateur and professional brass, woodwind, and percussion players from the greater Beaufort area. Following its motto, ‘Exploring What’s Musically Possible’, LWS chooses among many genres of music including compositions written for band as well as transcriptions of orchestral works. Also included in the program are Schubert’s ‘Unfinished Symphony’ Grainger’s ‘Irish Tune from County Derry’, and ‘American’s We’, a march by bandmaster, Henry Fillmore.
The concerts are admission free, but donations are gratefully accepted. ‘The Alpha and The Omega’ will be performed at the following venues:
Friday, April 24, 2026 – 7 P. M.
Bluffton High School
12 H. E. McCracken Circle,
Bluffton, SC 29910
Sunday, April 26, 2026 – 4 P. M.
Battery Creek High School
1 Blue Dolphin Drive
Beaufort, SC 29907
