Nearly 20 years later, the Globe hired Mr. Dyer to sit in Symphony Hall and hear the BSO in person, instead of on a turntable, and offer his opinion in the next day’s newspaper.

The Indiana Wind Symphony’s new music director isn’t planning a solemn future for the Carmel-based ensemble made up of 80 musicians who play brass, woodwind and percussion instruments.

The symphony commences with the soft PeepPeepPeep of a distant, hidden instrument, one of the first to be queued in for the nocturne. As he continues, more join the fray. Peep.Peep.Peep.Peep.Peep.

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