Solid Gold Sound Club Newsletter The official UCLA support organization for the UCLA Bruin Marching Band

Summer 2016 Band Alumni Reunion

The 14th Biennial Band Alumni Reunion will be held at halftime of the UCLA vs. Utah football game on Saturday, October 22nd at the . Plans call for the rehearsal to be held on a parking lot adjacent to the Rose Bowl beginning 3-1⁄2 hours before game time (yet to be announced). Immediately after the rehearsal, we will give away HUNDREDS of items from the Band’s Adidas allotment to all band alumni who attend! Items will include baseball caps, shoes, backpacks, jackets, sweatshirts, shorts and shirts! We will also have a special new item that all participants will receive! Registration forms have already been mailed out, so please email or call if you have not yet received yours. The alumni who travel the farthest distance and who represent the earliest UCLA class will receive special awards and will be introduced to the Rose Bowl audience as part of the halftime show. As we approach our 100th anniversary, let’s make this the biggest Reunion ever!

Assistant Director Kelly Flickinger presenting a Distance Award to Vangie Tangog Theobald from Band Juggler Chris Smith helps to lead the Band Alumni across the field East Syracuse, NY

Band Alumni Reunion in 2014 International Travel – Taiwan

Fifty members of the UCLA Bruin Marching Band and Dance Team traveled to Taiwan to perform at the Taoyuan International Band Festival in May 2016. The group performed at six schools in the Taoyuan area to promote music education before the final per- formance before a large audience in the Taoyuan Arena.

Band members being greeted by students in Taoyuan

The Band’s first performance in Taiwan just five hours after their arrival on a fourteen hour flight!

The Band surrounded during their concert by students at the Yangmei Junior High School

Trumpeters Sara Mosgrove and Tim Marcum with students at the XinMing Junior High School

Sousaphone players David Egen, Jason Tom and Mack Dimler with their new headgear

Grant Schulte, Jerry Qi, Julia Karstens and Trumpeter Brendan James with fans Alexis Korb All of the performers at the Taoyuan International Band Festival that included groups from Taiwan, Japan and Thailand

Kevin King, Nick DiNiro, Brendan Band members on the 89th floor observation James and Christine Hirata at the deck of Taipei 101 Tower, which was the Trombonist Lily Krol making friends Raohe Street Night Market world’s tallest building from 2004 to 2009 with two members of the Suranaree Band from Thailand

UCLA group photo outside of the Taoyuan Arena following At the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial with Liberty Square in the final performance the background

Travel in the U.S.

The Band had several opportunities to travel over the past Bowl game versus Nebraska. year. During football season, a 50-piece pep band went During basketball season, the Band returned to Las to the UCLA vs. UNLV game in Las Vegas and also to Vegas for the Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Tournament the UCLA vs. Arizona game in Tucson. The UCLA vs. and to Seattle for the Pac-12 Women’s Basketball Stanford game in Palo Alto was held on a Thursday night, Tournament. For the Women’s NCAA Basketball so the full band was unable to attend, but about half of Tournament in Bridgeport, Connecticut, band members the Band traveled there as a pep band. The Band then had the chance to visit New York City on their day off. traveled to San Francisco to perform at the Foster Farms Photos from 2015-16

Alto Saxophonist Kevin Kim Band members went all out for the Halloween Show

The Drumline rocking out! Trombonist Rebecca Buringrud being lifted up by Patrick McGihon and Adam Cobb

The UCLA and Cal Bands combine to perform the traditional Downfall of Troy Show The Drumline

Alto Saxophonists Evan Gentry and Nathan Cai

The Band performing in Wilson Plaza for Bruin Day, a major recruiting event for the UCLA campus

Horn Section Leader Nick Thompson Water Polo! Banners

As part of our recruiting efforts for new band members during Summer Orientation sessions, the Band has posted more than sixty banners all along Bruin Walk. The Band’s Recruitment Crew also sends mailings, makes phone calls and meets incom- ing students throughout the summer. A Record Tying Number of Performances

From July 2015 through June 2016, the Band performed 113 times! Here’s a complete list:

Football Season Games (11) Other Campus Events (26) • Home games – 6 • Eight Summer Orientation performances throughout the • Away games – 4 (UNLV, Arizona, Stanford, USC) summer of 2015 • Foster Farms Bowl in San Francisco 12/26/15 • Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Sports Party 7/16/15 • UCLA Store Rally 9/22/15 Men’s Basketball Games (19) • UCLA Open House in 9/26/15 • Home games – 18 • “Champed Up” Rally in Pauley Pavilion 9/22/15 • Pac-12 Tournament game – 1 (Las Vegas, NV) • Women’s Basketball Open Practice 10/4/15 Women’s Basketball Games (21) • “Dribble for the Cure” at Drake Stadium 10/11/15 • Home games – 15 • Krieger Child Care Center 10/16/15 • Pac-12 Tournament games – 3 (Seattle, WA) • Homecoming Rally 10/26/15 • NCAA Tournament games – 3 (, Bridgeport, CT) • Parents’ Weekend 10/30/15 Olympic Sports (19) • UCLA Lab School Carnival 11/15/15 • Women’s Volleyball 9/23/15 • UCLA at Utah football game Watch Party 11/21/15 • Men’s Soccer 9/25/15 • Bonfire Rally 11/24/15 • Women’s Soccer 11/6/15 • “42” Monument Unveiling 3/5/16 • Men’s Water Polo 11/15/15 • School of Music Open House 4/15/16 • Women’s Volleyball 12/4/15 (NCAA 1st Round) • Bruin Day Welcome in Pauley Pavilion 4/16/16 • Women’s Volleyball 12/5/15 (NCAA 2nd Round) • Bruin Day Rally in Wilson Plaza 4/16/16 • Men’s Water Polo 12/5/15 (NCAA Semifinal) • Healthy Campus Initiative in Pauley Pavilion 4/20/16 • Men’s Water Polo 12/6/15 (NCAA Final) • Bruin Transfer Day in Pauley Pavilion 5/14/16 • Gymnastics 1/10/16 Off Campus Events (17) • Men’s Volleyball 1/23/16 • Christening of Tugboat Lela Franco, Port of Long Beach • Swim/Dive 1/29/16 7/30/15 • Women’s Tennis 2/25/16 • Grand Re-Opening Ralphs Westwood 9/18/15 • Gymnastics 3/6/16 • WESCOM Meeting, Anaheim 10/12/15 • Men’s Tennis 4/1/16 • Rivals United for a Cure, downtown Los Angeles 10/21/15 • Softball 4/9/16 • AT&T/DirecTV NCAA Championship Watch Party, • Women’s Water Polo 4/23/16 Anaheim 1/11/16 • Track and Field 5/1/16 • Ellen DeGeneres Show, Burbank 1/20/16 • Women’s Water Polo 5/13/16 (NCAA 1st Round) • Patriot Brass event, Anaheim 3/3/16 • Baseball 5/13/16 • LAFD Station 71 Pancake Breakfast 5/22/16 • Asia Society Southern Annual Gala Honoring Shirley and Walter Wang, Skirball Cultural Center 5/22/16 • Taoyuan International Band Festival, seven performances in Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China 5/26–28/16 • Doritos “Chip Defender” video shoot, LA Live 6/16/16 The Ellen DeGeneres Show

January 20, 2016, was a GREAT day to watch The Ellen DeGeneres Show! Forty members of the UCLA Bruin Marching Band charged onto the set playing “The ,” followed by “Bang Bang.”

UCLA Band Program Solid Gold Sound Club Gordon Henderson Board of Directors Director of Bands Gary Bittner Ron Logan Director of the Bruin Marching and Varsity Bands Peter Dames Richard and Kathy Martin Travis J. Cross Rebecca Gottlieb Robert Milford Conductor of the Wind Ensemble Michael Hanson Michael O’Gara and Symphonic Band Nancy Ishiki Mary Park Ken Fisher Joe and Heidi Hardman Jeff Pickett Assistant Director of the Chris Holbert Matt Sonefeldt Bruin Marching and Varsity Bands Rob Joyner Brad Sraberg Paul Addleman Brian Kushnir Kim Strutt Administrative Assistant of the Alice Liu Andrew Yonce Bruin Marching and Varsity Bands

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