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The Medina Community Band Marcus Neiman, conductor John Connors, associate conductor & Matthew Hastings, assistant conductor With Denise Milner Howell, vocal soloist; Kevin Wallick, cornet soloist; and, Sadie Nayman, flute soloist Ice Cream Social Host – Kiwanis Breakfast Club of Medina MCBA Welcome – Lu Ann Gresh, president Thursday Evening, July 4th, 2019 Medina Uptown Park Square Gazebo 8:30 p.m. Anthem, Star Spangled Banner (1889/1917) .......................................................................................... Francis Scott Key John Philip Sousa Selection, Indiana Jones Selections (1981/2007) ................................................................................................. John Williams Hans van der Heide Anniversary, Fly Me to the Moon (1954/2014) .............................................................................................. Bart Howard Takashi Hoshide Cornet Solo, From the Shores of the Mighty Pacific (1912) ............................................................... Herbert L. Clarke Kevin Wallick, soloist Ragtime, Yankee Girl (1904) ............................................................................................................... J. Bodewalt Lampe Sing & Whistle Along, Cheerio (1933) .......................................................................................... Edwin Franko Goldman Matthew Hastings, conducting Flute Solo, Concertino, Op. 107 (1902/1960) ......................................................................................... Cécile Chaminade Clayton Wilson Sadie Nayman, soloist March, El Capitan (1896) ..................................................................................................................... John Philip Sousa Vocal Solo, I Dreamed a Dream (from Les Misérables) (1980/2009) ........................................ Claude-Michel Schönberg Michael Brown Vocal Solo, Irving Berlin – Songs of America .......................................................................................... Irving Berlin James Swearingen Denise Milner Howell, soloist Patriotic Salute, Armed Forces Salute ............................................................................................ Arr. Robert Lowden National March, The Stars and Stripes Forever (1896) ........................................................................ John Philip Sousa Patriotic Sing-A-Long, God Bless America (1917) .......................................................................................... Irving Berlin Erik William Gustav Leidzén Program subject to change MCB Gazebo Concert – Thursday, July 4th, 2019 – Program Notes – page 1 Indiana Jones Selections John Williams / Hans van der Heide Williams, John DOB: February 8th, 1932 (Queens, New York) John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in Hollywood history, including: Star Wars, Superman, Home Alone, the first three Harry Potter movies, and all but two of Steven Spielberg’s feature films including the Indiana Jones series, Schindler’s List, E.T. the Extra- Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, and Jaws. He also composed the soundtrack for the hit 1960s TV series Lost in Space. Williams has composed theme music for four Olympic Games, the NBC Nightly News, the inauguration of Barack Obama, and numerous television series and concert piece. He served as the principal conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra from 1980 to 1993, and is now the orchestra’s laureate conductor. Williams is a five-time winner of the Academy Award. He has also won four Golden Globe Awards, seven SAFTA Awards, and 21 Grammy Awards. With 45 Academy Award nominations, Williams is together with composer Alfred Newman, the second most nominated individual after Walt Disney. He was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame in 2000, and was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004. Indiana Jones Selections. Includes: Raiders March from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981) Slave Children’s Crusade from “Temple of Doom” (1984) Short Round’s Theme from “Temple of Doom” Love Theme from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” Keeper of the Grail from “Last Crusade” (1989) The bandstration has been arranged by Hans van der Heide Indiana" Jones's full name is Dr. Henry Walton Jones Jr., and his nickname is often shortened to "Indy". In his role as a college professor of archaeology, Jones is scholarly and learned in a tweed suit, lecturing on ancient civilizations. At the opportunity to recover important artifacts, Dr. Jones transforms into "Indiana," a "non-superhero superhero" image he has concocted for himself. Producer Frank Marshall said, "Indy [is] a fallible character. He makes mistakes and gets hurt. ... That's the other thing people like: He's a real character, not a character with superpowers." Spielberg said there "was the willingness to allow our leading man to get hurt and to express his pain and to get his mad out and to take pratfalls and sometimes be the butt of his own jokes.1 Indiana Jones is modeled after the strong-jawed heroes of the matinée serials and pulp magazines that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg enjoyed in their childhoods (such as the Republic Pictures serials, and the Doc Savage series). Sir H. Rider Haggard's safari guide/big game hunter Allan Quatermain of King Solomon's Mines is a notable template for Jones. 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones#Character_description_and_formation MCB Gazebo Concert – Thursday, July 4th, 2019 – Program Notes – page 2 Fly Me to the Moon Bart Howard / Takashi Hoshide Born Howard Joseph Gustafson. Best-known for the perennial "Fly Me to the Moon," composer Bart Howard was born Howard Joseph Gustafson in Burlington, Iowa in 1916. After leaving home at 16 to serve as the pianist in a dance band that toured in support of Siamese twins Daisy and Violet Hilton, in 1934 he settled in Los Angeles in the hopes of mounting a career as a Hollywood tunesmith. Instead, Howard ended up as the accompanist behind female impersonator Rae Bourbon -- from there he backed comedienne Elizabeth Talbot-Martin, following her to New York City when she was booked at the Rainbow Room in 1937. From 1951 to 1959, Howard served as the emcee and intermission pianist at New York's Blue Angel; by day, he continued honing his own material, and in 1954, he completed "In Other Words." One publisher suggested he retitle the song "Take Me to the Moon," but he finally settled on "Fly Me to the Moon"; first performed by cabaret singer Felicia Sanders. In 1960, the song was made a huge hit by Peggy Lee, and was later recorded by Judy Garland, Doris Day, and -- perhaps most notably -- Frank Sinatra. Its success made Howard so wealthy that he curtailed his songwriting efforts and entered semi- retirement, although his "Let Me Love You" and "Don't Dream of Anybody but Me" also earned some measure of significant success. Frank Sinatra's 1964 recording of "Fly Me to the Moon" became closely associated with NASA's Apollo space program. A copy of the song was played on the Apollo 10 mission which orbited the Moon. It became the first music heard on the Moon when played on a portable cassette player by Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin after he stepped onto the Moon. The song’s association with Apollo 11 was reprised many years later when Diana Krall sang it at the mission's 40th anniversary commemoration ceremony. She also sang a “slow and solemn version” in 2012 at the national memorial service for Apollo 11 mission commander Neil Armstrong.2 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Me_to_the_Moon MCB Gazebo Concert – Thursday, July 4th, 2019 – Program Notes – page 3 From the Shores of the Mighty Pacific Herbert L. Clarke In America, in the small towns and burgeoning industrial metropolises of the turn of the “last” century, cornetist were heroes. Small girls and boys would flock to hear them and their bands, resplendent in paramilitary costume, filled the Sunday-park air. Herbert L. Clarke, certainly the most famous cornetist of his time, would in his long career conduct ensembles with such bizarre names as the Huntsville Leather Company Band of Ontario. Clarke was probably one of the two best-known players in cornet history. Proud of his Yankee heritage, he was born into a musical family in Woburn, Massachusetts, where his organist father assured all his sons through training in several instruments apiece, but tried to dissuade them from pursuing musical careers. Nevertheless, Herbert and his trombonist brother Ernest were to become famous soloists, first in Patrick Gilmore’s historic ensemble (then conducted by Victor Herbert), later with John Philip Sousa. At one time, Clarke was Sousa’s highest-paid soloist, but despite efforts of the great man to keep him permanently, Clarke’s band leading and composing interests were to take him on long sojourns. Much to Sousa’s frustration, in fact, Clarke insisted on retiring from solo performance on the cornet at age 50 (a cut-off point he had set for himself in his youth – that on one might ever say to him, “he doesn’t play as well as he did in his prime.”) A composer of 240 works, Clarke brought the curiously rigid form of the cornet solo as far as it could reasonably go in harmonic interest and wealth of musical ideas. A large part of the Gilmore and Sousa band tradition was the inclusion of virtuosic cornet features on each concert. Clarke claimed to have given 7,000 of these solo performances in his career. Not only did he perform these