Winter Concert

ANCHOR BAY BAND BOOSTER EXECUTIVE BOARD The Anchor Bay High School Instrumental Music Department Carol LaPorte, President Barb Belanger, Vice President - Fundraising Jessie Jensen, Vice President - Special Event Fundraising proudly presents the Heidi Gnesda, Treasurer Tim Piepenbrok, Financial Secretary Maureen Block, Secretary CADET/CONCERT BAND Scott A. Oranchak, Instrumental Music Director Amy B. Tarnacki, Instrumental Music Director and the P. David Visnaw II, Instrumental Music Director ANCHOR BAY HIGH SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION SYMPHONIC BAND Mr. Joseph MacDonald, Principal Mr. Henry Anderson, Assistant Principal in a Mr. Victor Balaj, Assistant Principal Mr. David Boeskool, Assistant Principal/Athletic Director WINTER CONCERT UPCOMING INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC EVENTS 12/13/11 - 12/14/11 — Marching Band Picture Day (during school) 01/10/12— Band Booster Meeting (7:00PM, ABHS Band Room) 01/18/12 — Jazz Ensemble Concert (7:30PM, ABHS) 01/23/12—”A Taste of Music” Tastefest (6PM-8PM, ABHS) 2/09/12 - 2/11/12 — CMU Jazz Festival (Mt. Pleasant, MI) 02/29/12 — AB Pre-Festival Concert (TBA, ABHS) 03/15/12 - 03/16/12 — MSBOA District 16 Band Festival (TBA) Thursday, December 8, 2011 04/19/12 — Band Booster Meeting (7:00PM, ABHS) 5/08/12 — Spring Instrumental Music Concert (7:30PM, ABHS) 7:30 P.M. 5/09/12 — Spring Instrumental Music Concert (7:30PM, ABHS) Anchor Bay High School Auditorium 5/15/12 — Band Booster Meeting (7:00PM, ABHS) 05/31/12 — Instrumental Music Banquet Scott A. Oranchak, Instrumental Music Director Amy B. Tarnacki, Instrumental Music Director WWW.ANCHORBAYBANDS.ORG P. David Visnaw II, Instrumental Music Director PROGRAM A Rationale for Music Education MUSIC IS...a potential in every individual that, like all potential, should be COMBINED CADET & CONCERT BAND developed to its fullest. MUSIC PROVIDES…an outlet for creativity, self-expression, and individual uniqueness. It enables us to express our noblest thoughts and feelings. Allied Honor March………………...K. King/arr. J. Swearingen MUSIC TEACHES…students about unique aspects of their relationships with other human beings and with the world around them, in their own and other cultures. MUSIC IS...one of the most important manifestations of our cultural heritage. Children need to know about Beethoven, Louis Armstrong, and the Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas…………..….H. Martin Beatles as well as about Newton and Einstein. MUSIC OPENS...avenues of success for students who may have problems in other areas of the curriculum and opens approaches to learning that can be applied in other contexts. MUSIC EXALTS...the human spirit. Dances Fantastique……........................................D. Schaffer MUSIC IS…worth knowing and understanding. SYMPHONIC BAND A Slavic Farewell………………….V. Agapkin/arr. J Bourgeois DID YOU KNOW... “Every student in the nation should have an education in the arts.” This is the opening statement of “The Value and Quality of Arts Education: A Statement of Principles,” a document from the nation’s ten most important educational organizations, including the American Association of School Administrators, the National Education Association, the National Parent Teacher Association, and the Choreography……..…...……………………………….R. Shledon National School The benefits conveyed by music education can be grouped in four categories: Success in society Success in school A Christmas Collection…………………...………K. Bierschenk Success in developing intelligence Success in life When presented with the many and manifest benefits of music education, officials at all levels should universally support a full, balanced, sequential course of Immediately following tonight’s concert, please join us in the cafeteria music instruction taught by qualified teachers. And every student will have an for an afterglow! education in the arts. PROGRAM NOTES CONCERT ETIQUETTE CHOREOGRPHY A performer's intense concentration can be interrupted by little things that may seem trivial to audience members. The following suggestions will help audience members Robert Sheldon (b. Feb 3, 1954) has taught instrumental music in the Florida and show respect to the performers on stage as well as other members of the audience. Illinois public schools, and has served on the faculty at Florida State University where This will help the performers to do their best. he taught conducting and instrumental music education classes, and directed the university bands. As Concert Band Editor for Alfred Music Publishing, he maintains When To Applaud - Performers always appreciate applause, but there are appropriate an active composition and conducting schedule, and regularly accepts commissions moments to applaud. In a multi-movement work, applaud after all movements are for new works. Sheldon received the Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the completed. This allows the continuity of the piece to flow from one movement to the University of Miami and the Master of Fine Arts in Instrumental Conducting from the next. “Hooting and hollering” is not appropriate in the concert setting. University of Florida. Arrival Time - Leave early and allow enough time for parking and traffic. If you do Choreography was commissioned for the 2008 ATSSB All-State Band by the arrive late, wait by the doors until the first piece (not just a movement) is finished, then Association of Texas Small School Bands. Written in overture form, the piece draws discreetly take the nearest seat available. its inspiration from dance movements found in contemporary stage, ballet and theatrical productions. The piece opens with fast-paced angular gestures Entering and Exiting the Auditorium - Never enter or exit the auditorium during a accompanied by rapid rhythmical punctuations before yielding to a contrasting lyrical performance. If you must enter or exit, please wait until the performance on stage has section with long, flowing lines and many opportunities for expressive playing, the been completed. The most appropriate times to move about are during audience infectious beat patterns and memorable melodic content combine to make this an applause or set changes. excellent concert opener. Talking - Talking should not be tolerated. It is not only distracting to the performer, but to every person in the audience. It is just plain rude to talk (even whispering can be heard) during a musical performance. If someone around you is talking, ask them A CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION nicely to please stop. Kenny Bierschenk holds a Bachelor's degree in Music Education from the Other Noises - Avoid rustling your program, tapping your foot, bouncing your legs, etc. University of Texas at Austin, and a Master of Music degree in Conducting from the Pagers and cell phones should be turned off. Watches set to beep on the hour should University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. Since graduating from also be turned off. These high-pitched beeps are distracting to the performers and CCM in 1980, Mr. Bierschenk has held positions as a high school band director at audience members. several schools in Houston, Texas as well as Dayton and Cincinnati, Ohio. He is currently the director of bands at Taylor High School. Mr. Bierschenk's wife, Robin, is Coughing - It is hard to avoid a spontaneous cough. Be prepared with some type of also a CCM graduate and is the orchestra and choral director at Ursuline Academy in cough drops or candies. Avoid cellophane wrappers. Many come with a soft wax- Cincinnati. paper wrapping that will be much less noisy. As a performer, Mr. Bierschenk has considerable experience as a member of Taking Pictures - Refrain from taking any photographs during a performance. The community bands, orchestras, and choral groups, including Symphony North of click of a camera and especially the flash are very distracting. Pictures should be Houston, the Klein Wind Ensemble of Houston, The Houston Symphony Chorus and taken after the performance. Cincinnati's May Festival Chorus. He has also been active as a performer on trumpet with the North Houston Brass Quintet and the Queen City Conical Brass Children - Children need exposure to good music and live performances. If your Ensemble of Cincinnati. He performs regularly as a trumpet soloist at several young child begins to get restless in the middle of a performance, it may be best that churches in the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area. Mr. Bierschenk has served you exit the auditorium until calmer times prevail. as conductor of the Mount Community Concert Band since 1995. A Christmas Celebration is a medley of traditional carols. The noble March of the Kings serves as a regal start to the festivities which is soon followed by By following basic edicts of respect and consideration, performers and the audience Greensleeves; I Saw Three Ships; Lo, How a Rose and Bring a Torch. There are will have a more pleasurable and meaningful experience as they perform and attend wonderful displays of woodwind and brass choirs with several carols layered together live concerts. Because they have worked so hard for their performance, the students throughout the work. on stage deserve to be treated with respect. A SLAVIC FAREWELL This classic Slavic march was originally called Farewell to A Slavonic Woman, and since its premier during World War I, it has become the best-known, best-loved march in Russia and in the surrounding independent states of the former Soviet Russia. Vasilij Ivanovitz Agapkin was in Sjatjerovo in 1884. When he was a child, his parents moved to Astrachan near the Black Sea. Tragically, both parents died when he was 8 years old, leaving him homeless. Soon after, he was accepted as an apprentice th Thanks to all that have been using the Kroger Community Rewards Program to “band boy” in the 308 Tsarjob Battalion in Astrachan. He remained a musician in the th benefit the Anchor Bay Band Boosters. This program benefits the students of the army and, in 1912 during his enlistment with the 7 Calvary Regiment in Tambov, he Anchor Bay Bands by allowing our organization to receive 5% of your total composed A Slavic Farewell, or Farewell to A Slavonic Woman, Agapkin also worked purchases at Kroger Stores.

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