Tarleton State’s Wind Ensemble recording now available on major music streaming services.
- Jun 23
- 2 min read
TSU Media Relations
Special to Beneath the Surface News
Tarleton State University’s Wind Ensemble recently released a professionally recorded album, “Deep Reverberations,” through the VOCE label that is available on major music streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube.
“I’m quite proud of the Wind Ensemble for their work on this project,” said Dr. David Robinson, the group’s director.
“The success of this product was the result of both a ton of preparation by everyone involved and a commitment to a high level of focus in the recording session itself.
"The process challenged all of us artistically in ways that made us all better musicians.”
The title was inspired by one of the album’s six selections, “A deep reverberation fills with stars,” by John Mackey. Other pieces include “Clutch,” by David Perkins; Florence Price’s “Adoration;” “Danzas,” by Giovanni Santos; “Deir’ in De,” by Warren Barker; and Scott McAllister’s “Xanadu.”
The musical selections were chosen to exhibit a wide variety of composers and styles, allowing the musicians to showcase their versatility.
“Deep Reverberations” was recorded in November 2024 in the Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center Auditorium and edited by Dr. Robinson and VOCE Recordings’ Dr. Vince Kenney.
“The motivation behind this album was to respond to our university’s initiative for a higher level of scholarship output from us as a faculty,” said Dr. Robinson.
“For us who teach in the music field, especially with me as a conductor, this is the sort of project that fits that bill.”
The album was mostly self-funded through concert ticket sales over the past few years.
The Wind Ensemble consists of 40 to 50 undergraduate students selected annually by audition.
While many in the group study music as a major, a significant number represent other majors.
Mostly familiar to the Tarleton State community through performances at graduation ceremonies, the players rehearse just four hours a week during fall and spring semesters and perform at four campus concerts a year.
The Florence Price inclusion is the detail worth highlighting — her work has been significantly underperformed and under-recorded for most of the 20th century, and seeing "Adoration" on a 2024 Wind Ensemble album alongside John Mackey and Giovanni Santos says something about how programming choices are shifting in academic music. The album being self-funded through concert ticket sales and released through VOCE on major streaming platforms is also a practical model worth noting for other university ensembles. For producers who work with orchestral and classical recordings and want original commercial releases to sample legally, tracklib samples from that catalog are available with clearance handled in platform. Congratulations to Dr. Robinson and the entire ensemble on getting this into the world.
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