Concerto for Wind Ensemble (Husa)

The Concerto for Wind Ensemble is a concerto for wind ensemble by the Czech-born American composer Karel Husa. It was written for the Michigan State University Wind Ensemble in 1982 and won the first Sudler International Composition Prize in 1983.
Reception.
"Classical Music: The Listener's Companion" compared the work favorably to Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra and praised the work for "...show[ing] a lightness of texture that allows the exposure of everyone's talents." Author Frank L. Battisti also lauded the work, saying: