Wind Ensemble is the top performing group at Cox High School. Placement in this group is dependant upon an audition, band director's recommendation, and instrumental needs. Students are expected to be hard working and dependable. It is highly recommended that students in this ensemble take private lessons. This group performs grade V and VI music. In addition to class practices during school, the Wind Ensemble rehearses on Tuesday evenings from 6:00-9:00 during the months preceding Festival. There are also some evening rehearsals prior to other concerts. During Festival Preparation Rehearsals quality faculty is brought in for sectionals and a few guest clinicians are brought in to rehearse with the band and give suggestions. All Wind Ensemble members are required to try out for District Band. The Cox High School Wind Ensemble has received straight Superior Ratings at the District Band Festival for the past several years.

Frank W. Cox Wind Ensemble
Festival Repertoire

2008  (Grade VI)
Hands Across The Sea – John Phillip Sousa
Italian In Algiers – Rossini
Canticle of The Creatures – Jim Curnow
2007  (Grade VI)
National Emblem – John Phillip Sousa
Third Suite – Robert Jager
Vesuvius – Frank Tichelli
2006  (Grade V)
Marche Lorraine – L. Ganne
Celtic Hymns and Dances – Eric Ewazen
Sonus Ventorum – Claude T. Smith
2005  (Grade VI)  
The Foot Lifter – Henry Fillmore
Overture for Band – Mendelssohn
Council Oak – David Gillingham
2004 (Grade VI)
Coat of Arms – George Kenney
Mannin Veen – Haydn Wood
El Camino Real – Alfred Reed
2003 (Grade VI)
Little English Girl –
Suite of Old American Dances – Bennett
American Faces – Holsinger
2002 (Grade VI)
El Relacario – Jose Padilla
A Movement For Rosa – Mark Camphouse
Academic Festival – Brahms
2001 (Grade VI)
Entry March of the Boyars – Halvorsen
Fingal’s Cave-Mendohlson
Third Suite - Jager
2000 (Grade V)
Army Of The Nile – Kenneth Alford
Elegy for a Young American – Ronald Lopresti
La Belle Helene – Jaques Offenbach
1999 (Grade V)
Chant And Jubilo – William McBeth
Aquarium – Johann De Meij
1998 (Grade VI)
The Diplomat
Liturgical Dances – David Holsinger
Toccatta Marcialle – Vaughn Williams
1997 (Grade VI)
British 8th – Sousa
Chorale & Fugue in G Minor – Bach
Finale Symphony # 5 – Shostakovich

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