The Lamar University Wind Ensemble has been honored with an invitation to perform before the Texas Music Educators Association’s (TMEA) 2026 clinic/convention in San Antonio. They will present a local preview of this upcoming concert at 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, in the Julie Rogers Theatre.
The performance will feature works by Paul Lovatt Cooper, Percy Grainger, and Lamar University alumnus Joel Love. The program will conclude with Karel Husa’s “Music for Prague 1968.” Admission and parking are free, and the concert will last one hour in total.
The Wind Ensemble is the premier instrumental ensemble of the Mary Morgan Moore Department of Music. Its membership is comprised of primarily undergraduate students, with roughly 70% studying instrumental music education. The ensemble will be making its 12th TMEA appearance, and its first under the direction of Andrew McMahan, who joined the Lamar faculty in 2017.
Begun in 1920, TMEA is an organization of more than 20,000 elementary through post-secondary school music teachers. It is the largest organization of its kind in the world. Only three university bands were invited to perform at this year’s clinic/convention.
The Wind Ensemble’s TMEA performance will take place at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12 in the Lila Cockrell Theatre of the San Antonio Convention Center.