American composer's work to be debuted this week

Tue, 08 Jul 2014

The Isle of Man Wind Orchestra will premiere new work by a US composer on Thursday at its summer concert.

It's being held at 7:30pm at Peel Cathedral - 'Midwinter' has been compiled by Florida-based Clare Shore who is a graduate of the world-famous Julliard School in New York.

Orchestra chairman Michael Morrison says the decision to work with Ms Shore was to discover more about the American tradition of wind orchestra music.

He says he's hoping people will enjoy it: