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Arizona Winds ready for Disney blockbuster concert

Free Glendale show Feb. 9

Posted 1/7/20

The Arizona Winds will bring nine Disney films to life on stage with accompanying video production at a free concert 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9 at the Cactus High School Auditorium, 6330 W. Greenway Road, …

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Arizona Winds ready for Disney blockbuster concert

Free Glendale show Feb. 9

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The Arizona Winds will bring nine Disney films to life on stage with accompanying video production at a free concert 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9 at the Cactus High School Auditorium, 6330 W. Greenway Road, in Glendale.

Arizona Winds is an 85-member concert band located in Glendale, and conducted by musical director Lt. Col. Richard Shelton, USAF Ret.

Col. Shelton has selected nine of the all-time most popular and memorable award-winning animated Disney films, beginning with the world’s first full-length cell-animated feature film and the earliest Disney animated film, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” produced in 1937. “Alice in Wonderland” was Walt Disney Production’s 13th release of a full length animated feature film, and, since its premiere in 1951, is regarded as one of Disney’s greatest animated classics.

In 1953 Disney released its 14th animated film. The fantasy adventure “Peter Pan” was a story about a boy who wouldn’t grow up and his “Neverland” nemesis, Captain Hook. In 1964, Disney Productions won five Academy Awards and nine nominations for the fantasy musical film “Mary Poppins,” starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, featuring songs like “A Spoonful of Sugar,” “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocius,” and “Feed the Birds.”

The 1967 animated musical comedy “The Jungle Book” was the last film to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production. “The Little Mermaid,” the 1989 animated musical romantic fantasy film, was loosely based on the Danish fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, and won Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song, “Under the Sea.”

Disney’s 1991 release of “Beauty and the Beast,” its 30th animated feature film, also won Academy awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song and was the first animated film in film history to be nominated for Best Picture.

Disney’s 32nd animated feature film, “The Lion King,” finished its theatrical run as the highest-grossing release of 1994, the highest-grossing animated film and the second-highest-grossing film of all time. It is also the highest-grossing traditionally animated film of all time, as well as the best-selling film on home video, having sold over 30 million VHS tapes. “The Lion King” garnered two Academy Awards for its achievement in music and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture–Musical or Comedy. The musical score by Sir Elton John features songs like “Circle of Life,” “Hakuna Matata” and “Can You Feel the Love Tonight.”

The band concludes the program with excerpts from Disney’s 2009 five-time Academy Award-nominated, 3D computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film “Up.”

On Sunday, April 5 the band will present yet another music and film production featuring musical excerpts and video clips from “Oldies but Goodies” such as “Casablanca,” “The Magnificent Seven,” “South Pacific,” “Ben Hur,” “The Ten Commandments,” “From Russia with Love,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “The King and I” and more.

The season concludes May 31 with “America, the Dream Goes On,” a musical tribute to our men and women in uniform.

All concerts are 3 p.m. Sundays and admission is free.

Arizona Winds is celebrating its 45th year in the West Valley. The band’s musicians is comprised of adults from across the Valley and represents numerous professions from music educators to engineers, homemakers to accountants.

Visit azwinds.com.