50th
Anniversary Concert
Saturday, November 29, 2025 – 7:30pm
Holmes Hall – 719 Brighton Road, Allegheny West
(Pittsburgh’s North Side)
Come celebrate the Winds’ 50 years of music-making! Our annual holiday concert
in Holmes Hall will again feature great
chamber music, fine food at the reception,
and a tour of the incredible electric train
collection and display on site, not
ordinarily open to the public. The program is a potpourri of short pieces drawn from each decade of the group’s history.
PROGRAM
J. S. Bach: Contrapunctus VI
Alexander Zemlinsky: Humoreske
Frederick Jacobi: Scherzo
Heinrich Kaspar Schmid: Laendler
R. James Whipple: Gavotte & Trio
Nolan Medalla: Divergent Conversations
Eric Barndollar: “Reverie”
Julia Niebergall: Hoosier Rag
Traditional: I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
RECEPTION AND TOUR OF THE ANTIQUE TOY TRAIN MUSEUM FOLLOW THE CONCERT.
Click here to order tickets:
https://rcwinds.org/purchase-tickets-and-merchandise-copy/
PIPES REEDS AND HORNS
Friday, June 12, 2026 – 7:30pm
St. Anthony Chapel – 1704 Harpster Street, Pittsburgh PA 15212
(Troy Hill)
The Renaissance City Winds kick off the weekend celebration of St Anthony Day in Troy Hill, in the amazing St. Anthony Chapel. This program features organist Mark Brampton Smith on the recently rebuilt pipe organ of the chapel. In honor of the America 250th, he will perform the virtuosic variations of the national anthem by American composer John Knowles Paine, and join the Winds for a Baroque concerto by Hertel and a unique wedding march by Winds bassoonist and resident composer, R. James Whipple. The program also highlights a German romantic work for wind quartet and a trio by the late Robert Washburn. This program has been very popular on tour and now returns to Pittsburgh: “Nothing short of brilliant.” [OLEAN TIMES HERALD]
PROGRAM
Joseph Haydn: St. Anthony Chorale
Johann Hertel: Concerto for Oboe and Trumpet
John Knowles Paine:
. . . Variations on the Star-Spangled Banner
Karl Goepfart: Quartet in d minor
Robert Washburn: Three Pieces
R. James Whipple: Wedding Music for Kensington
RECEPTION TO FOLLOW THE CONCERT.
Donations at the door
