Winter Concert

ANCHOR BAY BAND BOOSTER EXECUTIVE BOARD The Anchor Bay High School Linda Petix, President Instrumental Music Department Carol LaPorte, Vice President - Fundraising Jesse Jensen, Vice President - Special Event Fundraising proudly presents the Heidi Gnesda, Treasurer Tim Piepenbrok, Financial Secretary th Maureen Block, Secretary 9 GRADE CADET BAND Molly J. Schack, Instrumental Music Director th P. David Visnaw II, Instrumental Music Director 9 GRADE SYMPHONIC BAND ANCHOR BAY HIGH SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION and the Mr. Joe MacDonald, Principal Mr. Hank Anderson, Assistant Principal Mr. Vic Balaj, Assistant Principal WIND ENSEMBLE Mrs. Yolanda White Assistant Principal in a WINTER CONCERT UPCOMING INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC EVENTS 1/11/11— Wind Ensemble MMC Send-off Concert (7:30PM, ABHS) 1/13/11— Band Booster Meeting (7:00PM, ABHS Band Room) 1/27/11 — Jazz Ensemble Concert (7:30PM, ABHS) 2/1/11—”A Taste of Music” Tastefest (6PM-8PM, ABHS) 2/10/11 - 2/12/11 — CMU Jazz Festival (Mt. Pleasant, MI) 2/23/11 — AB Pre-Festival Concert (TBA, ABHS) 3/11/11 - 3/12/11 — MSBOA District 16 Band Festival (TBA) 4/12/11 — Band Booster Meeting (7:00PM, ABHS) 5/10/11 — Spring Instrumental Music Concert (7:30PM, ABHS) Wednesday, December 8, 2010 5/11/11 — Spring Instrumental Music Concert (7:30PM, ABHS) 7:30 P.M. 5/17/11 — Band Booster Meeting (7:00PM, ABHS) 5/19/11 - 5/22/11 — New York City Trip Anchor Bay High School Auditorium 6/02/11 — Instrumental Music Banquet Molly J. Schack, Instrumental Music Director WWW.ANCHORBAYBANDS.ORG P. David Visnaw II, Instrumental Music Director PROGRAM PROGRAM NOTES 9TH GRADE CADET BAND DUSK (cont.) Spartan Centennial….…………………..….….…..J. Edmonson Dusk, a simple chorale-like work, captures the reflective calm of dusk, paradoxically illuminated by the fiery hues of sunset. Dusk is intended as a short passionate evocation of this moment of dramatic stillness. Escape from the Deep…..……………….…...…...B. Balmages STEVEN BRYANT (b. 1972) grew up in Little Rock, AK, and is an active composer and conductor with a varied catalog, including works for wind ensemble, orchestra, electronic and electro-acoustic creations, chamber music and music for the web. He Winter Holiday………………….……..……...…...J. Swearingen studied compositions with W. Fancis McBeth at Ouachita University, Cindy McTee at the University of North Texas, and John Corigliano at the Julliard School. CITYSCAPE Cityscape, a symphonic fanfare for winds and percussion, was written for and 9TH GRADE SYMPHONIC BAND dedicated to James F. Keene and the University of Illinois Wind Symphony. The work was designed to make a bold opening statement for the ensemble’s 2006 performance Imperial March…………………………………………..….K. King in New York City’s Carnegie Hall. Intense, clashing harmonies and tight, vertical rhythms combine with moments of calm, yet unsettled release to depict the atmosphere within the endless canyons of metal and cement in the heart of the city. Gateway West…………………………...………..…....J. O’Reilly SCOTT BOERMA (b. 1964) is associate director of bands, director of Michigan Marching and Athletic Bands, and the Donald R. Shepard associate professor of conducting at the University of Michigan. Previously he was director of bands at Yuletide Celebration………………………….….....E. Del Borgo Michigan public schools at Lamphere and Novi High Schools. Mr. Boerma earned his MM in music education at the University of Michigan, where he studied composition with William Bolcom, and his BM in music education at Western Michigan University, where he studied composition with Ramon Zupko. He is currently working toward completion of his DMA in wind conduction at Michigan State University. Mr. Boerma WIND ENSEMBLE has also studied composition with Anthony Iannaccone at Eastern Michigan University. Although he did not compose concert band works for most of his years as a public Easter Monday on the White House Lawn……..... J. P. Sousa school teacher, Mr. Boerma has written fifteen new pieces within the past ten years. Several of these works have been performed by “The President’s Own” Marine Band, the University of North Texas Wind Symphony, the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, the Dallas Wind Symphony, the University of Illinois Wind Symphony, and the University of Dancing at Stonehenge….…..…….…….……………...A. Suter Michigan at Camegie Hall, the Myerson Symphony Center, Hill Auditorium, and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Other published works include fanfare for a Molly Schack, Guest Conductor Golden Sky, Poem, Porta Nigra, Silver , Cauldron , Sesquicentennial Fanfare, and Bora Bora. Dusk………....……….….………………..…………...….S. Bryant Also a prolific arranger, Mr. Boerma is commissioned yearly to write for many high school and university marching bands and drum and bugle corps throughout the United States, as well as in Japan, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Thailand. From 1989-2006 he was the music arranger and head brass instructor for the Madison Cityscape…………………………………….……….....S. Boerma Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps. Most of the Big Ten University marching bands have performed Mr. Boerma’s arrangements. He has also written arrangements for the Detroit Chamber Winds Brass. Immediately following tonight’s concert, please join us in the cafeteria for an afterglow! PROGRAM NOTES CONCERT ETIQUETTE A performer's intense concentration can be interrupted by little things that may seem EASTER MONDAY ON THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN trivial to audience members. The following suggestions will help audience members show respect to the performers on stage as well as other members of the audience. Easter Monday on the White House Lawn was a late additional to the suite, Tales of This will help the performers to do their best. a Traveler, a piece composed 17 years earlier and was inspired by events of The JOHN PHILIP SOUSA Band’s round-the-world tour of 1910-1911. The third movement When To Applaud - Performers always appreciate applause, but there are appropriate of the suite brought the composer considerable grief. Easter Monday was originally moments to applaud. In a multi-movement work, applaud after all movements are called Coronation March and was composed for the coronation of King George V of completed. This allows the continuity of the piece to flow from one movement to the England. The piece was never used for this event and was given a new title, Grand next. “Hooting and hollering” is not appropriate in the concert setting. Promenade at the White House. Later, Sousa replaced Grand Promenade at the White House with the title Easter Monday on the White House Lawn as the third Arrival Time - Leave early and allow enough time for parking and traffic. If you do movement of his Tales of a Traveler Suite - a way of putting the British snub out of his arrive late, wait by the doors until the first piece (not just a movement) is finished, then mind. Easter egg-rolling in Washington is an American tradition which began during discreetly take the nearest seat available. President Madison’s administration. President Benjamin Harrison introduced music for the event in 1889, with Sousa directing the Marine Band. Thus Sousa was present at Entering and Exiting the Auditorium - Never enter or exit the auditorium during a the three egg rolls before leaving the Marine Corps. The event has been held ever performance. If you must enter or exit, please wait until the performance on stage has since and has grown in popularity to the extent that it now rates much media coverage. been completed. The most appropriate times to move about are during audience applause or set changes. Whatever the reason for the substitution of Easter Monday on the White House Lawn in place of the original last movement, this lively new piece was well in keeping with the Talking - Talking should not be tolerated. It is not only distracting to the performer, but dynamic America reflected in the “roaring twenties.” Sousa’s memories are recorded in to every person in the audience. It is just plain rude to talk (even whispering can be the notes he added to Sousa Band programs when Easter Monday on the White heard) during a musical performance. If someone around you is talking, ask them House Lawn was featured on the 1928 tour: “With the children rolling eggs, dancing nicely to please stop. and romping, a scene of animation persists itself; the elders, from President to the merest passerby, look on the scene with joy and pleasure.” Other Noises - Avoid rustling your program, tapping your foot, bouncing your legs, etc. Pagers and cell phones should be turned off. Watches set to beep on the hour should DANCING AT STONEHENGE also be turned off. These high-pitched beeps are distracting to the performers and audience members. Dancing at Stonehenge was completed in October 2003 while the composer was a student at the University of Michigan. It was commissioned by Craig L. Blume and the Coughing - It is hard to avoid a spontaneous cough. Be prepared with some type of Pioneer Junior/Senior High School Band. In 2005, Dancing at Stonehenge was named cough drops or candies. Avoid cellophane wrappers. Many come with a soft wax- winner of the College Band Directors National association Young Band Composition paper wrapping that will be much less noisy. Contest. The piece is in a single movement and has an appropriate duration of six minutes. The composer says the following: This piece attempts to invoke a festive Taking Pictures - Refrain from taking any photographs during a performance. The tone, though without any overt musical/thematic references to the title. Musical ideas click of a camera and especially the flash are very distracting. Pictures should be have been borrowed from a variety of resources; mostly audibly, I have taken cues taken after the performance. from Brazilian music, American Jazz, and Renaissance music. This pluralistic approach is, however, suggested by the title.

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