For Immediate Release
Contact David Lotz
609-203-2342
Shelley Belusar
732-775-0035
Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association Presents
The Atlantic Wind Ensemble
Celebrating Its 25th Anniversary
Free Concert – Saturday May 23, 2015 (8 PM) – Great Auditorium
Memorial Day Weekend Program Features Patriotic/Military Anthems, Popular Marches
In the spirit of the Memorial Day holiday, Ocean Grove will kick off its 146th summer season with a FREE
concert by the Atlantic Wind Ensemble entitled “We, The People – A Concert of Patriotic Music” on
Saturday, May 23, 2015. Showtime is 8 PM at the Great Auditorium, located at Pilgrim and Ocean
Pathways in Ocean Grove, NJ. For more information, visit www.oceangrove.org.
Highlights include: Mark Azzolina’s Shield of Freedom, Gustov Holst's First Suite in E Flat, Armed Forces
Salute, Reinhold Gliere’s Russian Sailor's Dance, selections from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Sound of
Music, and At A Dixieland Jazz Funeral featuring Linda Kreilick on Clarinet, Fred Wolf on Trumpet, Geoff
Grice on Trombone, Dan Laing on Tuba and Jim Sanford on Drums. Guest Vocalist Altha Morton will
perform Rodgers and Hart’s Blue Moon. The finale will include a rousing rendition of John Philip Sousa’s
The Stars & Stripes Forever.
The Atlantic Wind Ensemble (AWE) is directed by Dennis T. Eschbach, who was a music teacher and
band director for the Bergenfield High School Band and the North Brunswick High School Band. He was
also a Brass Instructor for the Muchachos, Bridgeman, and Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps. Dennis
holds a BS in Music Education from William Patterson University and has been a trombone player in the
Atlantic Wind Ensemble for the past 15 years. Guest Conductors include Curt Morton and Associate
Conductor David Attilio who is a. graduate of Kutztown University and a music teacher at Shore Regional
High School in West Long Branch. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the ensemble, originally founded
by Director Emeritus Harry D. Eichhorn in 1990.