December 6, 2004
Dean Immel, Director
| Home For The Holidays (Concert Montage featuring: Home For The Holidays, Winter Wonderland, Over The River and I’ll Be Home For Christmas) |
Arranged by John Higgins
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| Carol Of The Bells | M. Leontovich – P. Wilhousky Arranged by Sean O’Loughlin |
| Bashana Haba’ah | Lyrics by Ehud Manor Music By Nurit Hirsh Arranged by Lloyd Conley |
| A Christmas Fantasy Based On Do You Hear What I Hear? |
Words and Music By Noel Regney Gloria Shayne Arranged by Calvin Custer |
| The Eighth Candle Prayer and Dance For Hanukkah |
Steve Reisteter |
| Gallop 4th Movement from First Suite For Band |
Alfred Reed |
| ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas a setting of the classic poem by Clement Clarke Moore Brooks Gardner, Narrator |
Bill Holcombe |
| Sleigh Ride | Leroy Anderson |
October 18, 2004
Dean Immel, Director
| Prelude and Fugue in F Minor From Eight Little Preludes and Fugues |
Johann Sebastian Bach
Transcribed by R.L. Moehlmann |
| Suite Francaise for Band 1. Normandie 3. Ile de France 5. Provence |
Darius Milhaud |
| Suite from Carmen The Toreadors, Argoniase, Habanera, Song of the Toreador, Dance Boheme |
George Bizet Arranged by James Curnow |
| One Fine Day from Madame Butterfly |
Giacomo Puccini Arranged by L. Calliet |
| Rhapsody on an Old English Sea Song | Stuart Johnson |
| Alleluja from Exultate, Jubilate |
W.A. Mozart Arranged by Walter Beeler |
| First Suite For Band III. Rag |
Alfred Reed |
| His Honor March | Henry Fillmore |
May 24, 2004
Dean Immel, Director
| American Tribute Based on Yankee Doodle, My Country, ‘Tis of Thee, America the Beautiful |
arranged by John Moss
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| Suite of Old American Dances 1. Cake Walk |
Robert Russell Bennett |
| American Originals A Symphonic Panorama including: Yankee Doodle Boy, Alexander’s Ragtime Band, Swanee River and You’re A Grand Old Flag |
arranged by Sammy Nestico |
| Fantasy on American Sailing Songs Including: Hornet and Peacock, Lowlands, What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor? and Rio Grande |
Clare Grundman |
| An American In Paris | George Gershwin transcribed and arranged for Symphonic Band by John Krance |
| Festival of American Spirituals Little David, Play on Your Harp *Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child* Ezekiel Saw The Wheel * Were You There? * Joshua* Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen * Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit |
arranged by Jerry Nowak |
| Salute To American Jazz A Night in Tunisia * St. Louis Blues * It Don’t Mean a Thing (If it Ain’t Got That Swing) * Birdland |
arranged by Sammy Nestico |
| Americans We March | Henry Fillmore |
April 19, 2004
Dean Immel, Director
| Chester (Overture for Band) Based on William Billings’ Hymn and Marching Song of the American Revolution |
William Schuman
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| Touch of Tuba Steve New, tuba soloist |
Art Dedrick |
| Four Pieces For Band | Bela Bartok |
| Symphonic Psalm | Claude T. Smith |
| Delirio Carlos Hernandez, tenor saxophone solo |
Cesar Portillo de la Cruz |
| Country Gardens | Percy Grainger |
| The Light Eternal | James Swearingen |
| The Fairest of the Fair | John Phillip Sousa |
PROGRAM NOTES
Chester: The Tune on which this composition is based was born during the time of the American Revolution, appearing in 1778 in a book of tunes and anthems composed by William Billings. It became the song of the American Revolution, sung around the campfires of the Continental Army and played by fifers on the march. The music and words express perfectly the burning desire for freedom which sustained the colonists through the difficult years of the war.
A Touch of Tuba: Steve New, Instrumental Music Director at John Muir Middle School in Burbank, California, is a graduate of the University of Southern California. Following a twenty-year hiatus from teaching, Mr. New returned to school to complete his teaching credential and Masters degree in Education.
Four Pieces for Band: This is an arrangement of four selected pieces from FOR CHILDREN, a collection of eighty-five Hungarian and Slovakian folk songs transcribed for piano solo by Bela Bartok.
Symphonic Psalm: This piece was commissioned by the 1979 Texas AA Honor Band, Bellville, H.S., Robert McElroy, conductor.
Delirio: Carlos Hernandez is backed up by Jose Blackman (bass), Mike Senescu (bongos), and Angelo Salazar (guitar).
Country Gardens: The world famous pianist, Percy Grainger, first performed an improvisation on an English morris dance called “Country Gardens” in 1918. This “ditty” became wildly popular, and was to become his best-known composition.
The Light Eternal: On February 3, 1943, the S.S. Dorchester, an American troop transport vessel, sank in the icy waters off the coast of Greenland, the victim of a German U-Boat. Of the 904 men aboard, 605 were lost. Among those who perished were four army chaplains, each of a different faith, each called to the same duty. The testimony of the survivors tells the story best: “As overcrowded lifeboats capsized, as rafts drifted away empty and men milled around the deck on the ragged edge of panic, the only fragment of hope came from these four men…and when the life jackets were gone, they gave away their own.” As the survivors swam away, they remember the chaplains standing, their arms linked, braced against the slanting deck. They were praying words in prayer in Latin, Hebrew and English, addressed to the same God. “The Light Eternal,” based on the well-known hymn, “God of Our Fathers,” is a reflective work that musically recounts this magnificent story.
The Fairest of the Fair March: This is the authentic original composition by John Phillip Sousa, with special drum arrangements by August Helmecke, drum virtuoso with the Sousa Band.