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ANCHOR BAY BAND BOOSTER EXECUTIVE BOARD The Anchor Bay High School Instrumental Music Department Carol LaPorte, President proudly presents the Barb Trombly, Vice President - Fundraising Jodi Gunst, Vice President - Special Event Fundraising Diane Lobbestael, Treasurer CADET/CONCERT BAND Patrick DeRey, Financial Secretary Jennifer Stone, Secretary Scott A. Oranchak, Instrumental Music Director and the P. David Visnaw II, Instrumental Music Director ANCHOR BAY HIGH SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION 9th GRADE SYMPHONIC BAND Mr. Joseph McDonald, Principal in a Mr. Henry Anderson, Assistant Principal Mr. Victor Balaj, Assistant Principal Mrs. Heidi Stephenson, Assistant Principal UPCOMING INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC EVENTS 5/07/15 — Flower Sale Pick-Up 5/11/15 — Band Booster Meeting 5/13/15-5/17/15 — Instrumental Music NYC Trip 5/19/15 — Marching Band Registration Night Wednesday, May 6, 2015 5/25/15 — New Baltimore Memorial Day Parade 7:30 P.M. 5/31/15 — Graduation (McMorran Auditorium, Port Huron) 6/5, 6/8 & 6/9/15 — Marching Band Pre-Camp (‘15 - ‘16 MB) Anchor Bay High School Auditorium 6/28/15 — Bay Rama Parade (‘15 - ‘16 MB) 7/27/15-8/01/15 — Marching Band Camp @ CMU Scott A. Oranchak, Instrumental Music Director P. David Visnaw II, Instrumental Music Director WWW.ANCHORBAYBANDS.ORG Vincent J. Rubino, Student Teacher PROGRAM PROGRAM NOTES HARRY’S WONDROUS WORLD John Williams, one of the most popular and successful American orchestral CADET/CONCERT BAND composers of the modern age, is the winner of five Academy Awards, 17 Grammys, three Golden Globes, two Emmys and five BAFTA Awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Best known for his film scores and ceremonial music, Williams is also a noted composer of concert works and a renowned conductor. Jungle Dance…..……………………………….…… B. Balmages Williams’s scores for such films as Jaws, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Schindler's List, as well as the Indiana Jones series, have won him multiple awards and produced best- selling recordings, and his scores for the original Star Wars trilogy transformed the landscape of Hollywood film music and became icons of American culture. Williams has composed the music and served as music director for nearly eighty films, including Saving Private Ryan, Amistad, Seven Years in Tibet, The Lost World, How to Train Your Dragon………… J. Powell, arr. O’Loughlin Rosewood, Sleepers, Nixon, Sabrina, Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, Home Alone, Far and Away, JFK, Hook, Presumed Innocent, Always, Born on the Fourth of July, the Indiana Jones trilogy, The Accidental Tourist, Empire of the Sun, The Witches of Eastwick, the Star Wars trilogy, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, The Empire Strikes Back, Superman, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws and Goodbye Mr. Chips. Williams has been awarded several gold and platinum records, and his score for Schindler's List earned him both an Oscar and a Grammy. In 2000, at the ShoWest Convention USA, he was honored as Maestro of the Year by the National Association 9th GRADE SYMPHONIC BAND of Theater Owners. John Williams was born in New York and moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1948. There he attended UCLA and studied composition privately with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. After service in the Air Force, Mr. Williams returned to New Orion’s Sword……………………………….………….. A. L. Silva York to attend the Juilliard School, where he studied piano with Madame Rosina Lhevinne. While in New York, he also worked as a jazz pianist, both in clubs and on recordings. He then returned to Los Angeles, where he began his career in the film industry, working with such composers as Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Newman, and Franz Waxman. He went on to write music for many television programs in the 1960s, winning two Emmy Awards for his work. In January 1980, Williams was named nineteenth Conductor of the Boston Pops Harry’s Wondrous World…………. J. Williams, arr. Brubaker Orchestra since its founding in 1885. He assumed the title of Boston Pops Laureate Conductor, following his retirement in December 1993, and currently holds the title of Artist-in-Residence at Tanglewood. J. K. Rowling’s first book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, was released in September 1998. Between the years of 1999 and 2007, six Immediately following tonight’s concert, please join us in more books were added to the series. In November 2001, the first film of the famous Harry Potter movie series was released. The movie franchise spread from 2001 to the cafeteria for an afterglow . 2011. Harry’s Wondrous World showcases the music from the second film of the series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. PROGRAM NOTES CONCERT ETIQUITTE ORION’S SWORD 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 Alan Lee Silva is a composer and arranger whose credits include orchestration show respect to the performers on stage as well as other members of the audience. for television’s popular 7th Heaven and Eight Simple Rules, arrangements for feature This will help the performers to do their best. and television movies Enough and Soul Collector, and scores for independent films Eli’s Coming, State of the Artist, and The Studio. He has arranged for an eclectic mix When To Applaud - Performers always appreciate applause, but there are appropriate of artists ranging from Broadway’s Susan Egan to the Nuclear Whales Saxophone moments to applaud. In a multi-movement work, applaud after all movements are Orchestra to Disney’s California Adventure Theme Park to the rock group KISS. His completed. This allows the continuity of the piece to flow from one movement to the pieces have been performed by some of Hollywood’s finest studio musicians, and his next. “Hooting and hollering” is not appropriate in the concert setting. strong melodic style and contemporary harmonies are influenced by the music of Aaron Copland, Dave Grusin, and Jerry Goldsmith. Arrival Time - Leave early and allow enough time for parking and traffic. If you do arrive late, wait by the doors until the first piece (not just a movement) is finished, then Alan earned a BA in jazz composition and performance from Dan Jose State discreetly take the nearest seat available. University. He then went on to study at the acclaimed Dick Grove School of Music in Los Angeles, where he later taught composition, arranging and keyboard. His Entering and Exiting the Auditorium - Never enter or exit the auditorium during a contemporary jazz piece The Flight recorded on the Burning Bridges CD Forethought, performance. If you must enter or exit, please wait until the performance on stage has became a favorite on San Francisco radio stations. He has worked proofreading film been completed. The most appropriate times to move about are during audience and television scores in the music libraries of the 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures applause or set changes. Entertainment, and paramount Pictures. Talking - Talking should not be tolerated. It is not only distracting to the performer, but Alan’s compositions reflect his belief that music at all levels must be melodically strong to every person in the audience. It is unacceptable to talk (even whispering can be in order to be both satisfying to the listener and engaging to a young musician. Alan heard) during a musical performance. If someone around you is talking, ask them lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters. nicely to please stop. Orion’s Sword has a mysterious minor opening, highlighted by ominous drones, Other Noises - Avoid rustling your program, tapping your foot, bouncing your legs, etc. haunting flute melodies, and muted trumpet clusters, that set up an intriguing aural Pagers and cell phones should be turned off. Watches set to beep on the hour should atmosphere. The modal introduction (mm. 1-18) begins with a distant low brass also be turned off. These high-pitched beeps are distracting to the performers and melody, then quickly intensifies, punctuated by big ensemble chords and swirling audience members. woodwind melodies. The driving sixteenths in the low woodwinds (m.19) and alternating high woodwind motives are played with intensity, creating forward motion to Coughing - It is hard to avoid a spontaneous cough. Be prepared with some type of the heroic main theme in the relative major (m.29). The trumpets lead the powerful cough drops or candies. Avoid cellophane wrappers. Many come with a soft wax- brass section here, as quick woodwind runs dance between the phrases. The horns paper wrapping that will be much less noisy. and tenor saxophone take over the lead (m. 37), playing a legato melody with cascading woodwind lines in the background. This repose section eventually leads Taking Pictures - Refrain from taking any photographs during a performance. The back into another statement of the main brass melody (m. 45). The modal transition click of a camera and especially the flash are very distracting. Pictures should be (m. 53) slows the pace in preparation for the beautiful, chorale-like middle section of taken after the performance. the piece (m. 61). Alternating woodwind melodies (optional solos), and flowing horn counter-lines highlight this section. A return to Tempo I (m. 73) and the modal Children - Children need exposure to good music and live performances. If your introduction material set up the driving woodwind sixteenth notes and staccato brass young child begins to get restless in the middle of a performance, it may be best that figures (m. 90). The piece builds to a syncopated tutti transition (m. 96) and is played you exit the auditorium until calmer times prevail. energetically, setting up the modulation and return of the heroic main theme.

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