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Purpose and History

The Community Band of Brevard exists to educate its members, to entertain its audiences, and to serve its community. Our musical director is Mr. Marion Scott. Mr. Scott formed the Band in 1985 to provide a performance outlet for adult musicians in the area. Our membership, currently numbering about 90, includes people of all ages representing many occupations. If you would like more information about the Band, or wish to join, send us a message to [email protected] or contact David Scarborough at (321) 338-6210. Like us on Facebook at Community Band of Brevard and visit our Web site at http://www.CommunityBandOfBrevard.com.

CBOB’S FL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE & CONSUMER SERVICES REGISTRATION NUM- BER IS CH35170. A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER SERVICES BY CALLING TOLL-FREE (800-435- 7352) WITHIN THE STATE. REGISTRATION DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT, APPROVAL, OR RECOMMENDATION BY THE STATE.

Board of Directors Conductor ...... Marion Scott Chairman ...... David Scarborough Vice Chairman ...... Fran Youmans Personnel Manager ...... Marjorie Varuska, Christine McKnight Equipment Manager ...... David Douglass Business Manager ...... Connie Miller Publicity/Advertising Coordinator ...... Mike Freeman Librarian ...... Paige Klaus Secretary ...... Terri Poppell

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Chairman’s Message Concert Calendar *

Greetings and welcome to the start of our 2016-2017 concert *All dates, times, and venues subject to change. Join our e-mail seasonour 31st! The Broadway musical has been an exciting part or mailing list for concert updates, or visit of American cultural life since the mid-nineteenth century, and its www.CommunityBandOfBrevard.com. history is a fascinating one. While Broadway was a popular destination for -goers for many years, it wasn’t until the The Community Band of Brevard end of the 19th century that plays featuring music and dance All concerts below take place at Merritt Island High School Auditorium became an entertainment staple. Some of the musical selections on today’s concert were first performed during the “Golden Age of A Winter Concert Broadway,” which spans from the late 1940’s through the 50’s, Sunday, December 4, 2016 at 3:00 PM — FREE concert while the selections from Jesus Christ Superstar and were first performed in the 1970’s. Some Broadway trivia: What was the Director’s Choice first musical written by the legendary team of and Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 3:00 PM — FREE concert

Oscar Hammerstein? Give up? Hint: it features “The Surrey with Crowd Pleasers the Fringe on Top.” Sunday, June 11, 2017 at 3:00 PM — FREE concert We are pleased to announce that our sister organization, the Space Coast Swing Ensemble, will be performing again at the The Space Coast Swing Ensemble Merritt Island High School auditorium on December 11, 2016 at

3:00 PM. Please mark your calendars, as we invite you to come out Swingin’ in the Season and enjoy some swingin’ music and Big Band favorites performed Sunday, December 11, 2016 at 3:00 PM — FREE concert by some of the best players in central Florida. Merritt Island High School Auditorium

As always, thank you for attending today’s concert and for the The Space Coast Swing Ensemble performs music of the Big Bands generous support you have provided the Band during the past 30 of the 1930s—1950s and performs at dances, theater shows, years. I hope you enjoy today’s concert and look forward to seeing concerts, and special occasions. Members include many you, your family, and friends at our annual Winter Concert on professional musicians from Brevard, Orange, Volusia, and December 4, 2016 and at the Big Band Concert the following week. Seminole counties. The Space Coast Swing Ensemble is available for hire for church, special, or community events. Call Marion David E. Scarborough Scott at 321-268-5312 for more information. Chairman, The Community Band of Brevard

Donating to The Community Band of Brevard

An Invitation The Community Band of Brevard has been granted 501(c)(3) status by the IRS. Contributions to the Band are deductible under Membership in The Community Band of Brevard is available to section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code. The Band is also anyone who currently plays, or once played, a band instrument. We qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers, or do not audition new members. Please join us for rehearsals on gifts under section 2055, 2106, or 2522 of the Code. Note that you Wednesdays at 7 P.M. in the band room at Edgewood Jr./Sr. High on may now contribute larger gifts for tax purposes simply by claiming Merritt Island. Call 321-338-6210 or 321-268-5312 for more info. your gift to The Community Band of Brevard.

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 2015-2016 Season—Patrons of Note  Our Conductor

The following patrons made significant donations during the Marion A. Scott, a native of 2015-2016 concert season. This list includes only patrons we are South Carolina, taught in Brevard fully aware of, and does not include the many generous, yet County, Florida schools for 39 anonymous, patrons without whom we could not continue to exist. years. From 1959 to 1965 he served To all of you, we express our gratitude. Please note that we as Band Director at Southwest accrue the names of all patrons we are aware of throughout the Junior High School in Melbourne. In current concert season. When a patron’s contributions reach one 1965 he founded the Merritt Island of the levels shown below, we list the patron in our programs. High School Band when the school opened, and directed the group Conductor’s Circle ($1,000+) until 1975. The school’s Dione Negroni-Hendrick and Don Hendrick instrumental program included a Larry and Brenda Vickers 230-piece marching band, wind ensemble, symphonic band, Platinum Baton ($500-$999) Gold Baton ($250-$499) woodwind and brass ensemble classes, , two jazz Ed and Kim Shinskie Lt. Col. Gregory (ret) & Joyce Clark ensembles, and a jazz theory class. He retired as Director of Bands Bart and Judy Lipofsky at BCC (now Eastern Florida State College), Cocoa Campus in 1999. Tom and Donna MacDonald Mr. Scott earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Music Jim and Christine McKnight Education from the University of Georgia, and Master of Music in Gary and Connie Miller Performance from the University of South Florida. His professional Bradley and Marjorie Varuska affiliations include Phi Beta Mu, Phi Mu Alpha, ASBDA (for which he Silver Baton ($100-$249) Bronze Baton ($50-$99) served as State Chairman), MENC, NAJE, CBDNA, and FMEA. He has Daniel Acker Dr. Carol Cook-Koenig also been active in the Florida Bandmaster’s Association, in which Frances A. Bradford Sharolee Huet he has held the position of District Chairman of the FBA Board of Helen Bray Richard and Patricia Koralewicz Directors, and has served on the FBA Stage Band Committee. Donald Bryan Raymond and Ruthann Kuhlman Mr. Scott has served as an adjudicator for concert, solo, Clarice Costello Ronald and Mary Ann Lang ensemble, and stage band contests throughout Florida. He has George English James and Sharon Malecki served as Conductor/Clinician for various music festivals Michael Freeman Antionette D. Pemberton throughout Florida, such as the All-State Jr. College Band in 1976, Kerry and Nancy Goodier All-State Reading Bands in 1977 and 1978, All-State Junior High Jack and Dorothy Hollander Concert Band in 1980, Brevard All-County Junior High School Band George and Sally Lambert in 1982, Hillsborough All-County High School Band in 1986, and the Susan Perez Brevard All-County High School Band in 1988 and 1998. In 1985 he Ken and Terri Poppell established the Brevard Community Band (now The Community Harry Vickers, Esq. Band of Brevard). Douglas and Patricia Zinn Mr. Scott has played with many name bands, including the Harry James Orchestra, Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Tex Beneke Orchestra, Sammy Kaye Orchestra, Terry Myers Benny Goodman Tribute Orchestra, and others. He currently plays with the Sanford Jazz Ensemble and is the leader of the Space Coast Swing Ensemble.

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Musicians Program

Flute/Piccolo Bass Clarinet Trombone ** As a courtesy to fellow audience members, kindly silence all cell phones and electronic devices. ** Sarah Bryan Kathleen Moore-Manship Rafael Benet

Caitlyn Button Roberta Clark Kathleen Colman † Alto Saxophone James Condy Mike Freeman * Elliot Benjamin Jacob Dawson The Star-Spangled Banner ...... F. Scott Key/Claire Cloninger Paige Klaus Louis Deal Emily Hall Bart Lipofsky * Kyle Leve Chelsea Letchworth Donna MacDonald * Norman McCorvey Derek McLean Amazing Grace ...... John Newton/Arr. Frank Ticheli Connie Miller Makenzie Pauline David Scarborough † Carolyn Ward Jeff Vickers † Michael Schwindt Dale Swartout Jesus Christ Superstar ...... A. Webber & T. Rice/Arr. Oboe Tenor Saxophone

Jane Francoeur † David Douglass Baritone/Euphonium Oklahoma! ...... R. Rodgers & O. Hammerstein/ Dee Pait Dave Jennings Gerald Leach † Arr. Robert Russell Bennett Ron Youmans * Michelle Pittman Jeff Murphree Marianne Rigolini Scott Zinn Baritone Saxophone The Music Man ...... Meredith Willson/Arr. Philip J. Lang Bassoon Tom MacDonald Tuba Mike McLaughlin Ed Moran † Robert Sawyer French Horn An American in Paris ...... /Trans. Jerry Brubaker Becky Atwood Percussion E♭ Clarinet Hannah Briant Dan Bryan

Rudy Deal Elizabeth Bryan Trumpet/Cornet Noah Bryan Intermission (15 minutes) Anna Bryan Steve Bryan † B♭ Clarinet Bob Comer Suzanne Clark Cameron Bradley René Hulsker † Russell Jones * Kathlyn Condy ...... R. Rodgers & O. Hammerstein/ Lee Medlin James Deal Jim Milucky Arr. Robert Russell Bennett Rudy Deal Ken Morris Jacob White Judy Dixon Tracy Patt Barbara Ziegler

Susan Eklund * James Paul Selections from Grease ...... W. Casey & J. Jacobs/Arr. Ted Ricketts Emma Fernandez Mike Torres Piano/Keyboard Margaret Jennings Pauline Lewis Virginia McKinney Christine McKnight West Side Story Selection ...... /Arr. W.J. Duthoit

Edward Pallone

Terri Poppell (Symphonic Scenario) ...... R. Rodgers & O. Hammerstein/ (Concertmaster) * Charter Member—participated in the Band’s Arr. Robert Russell Bennett Marin Schrack premiere performance on 11/21/1985

Harry Vickers Frances Youmans * † † Section Leader

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Program Notes — Broadway Favorites Program Notes — Broadway Favorites (cont.)

Amazing Grace (John Newton/Arr. Frank Ticheli) impressive talents in the musical theater. It opened, after eight John Newton was from a seafaring family. From 1736 to 1742, he years of writing, on December 19, 1957 at New York’s Majestic served on a trading ship of which his father was the master. Then Theater and ran for 1375 performances. It was honored by many he ended up in the slave trade, exchanging British manufactured awards, national tours, being made into a film, and by the fact goods for African slaves. During a storm at sea in 1748, he that most of Willson’s songs in it became widely known. Of all the underwent a religious conversion. In 1755, he gave up seafaring, tunes in the musical, “Seventy Six Trombones” is probably the settled in Liverpool, came to know John Wesley, and became an most popular and enduring. ordained minister. Newton was closely associated with the church An American in Paris (George Gershwin) in Olney Parrish, England. He wrote Amazing Grace in 1770 George Gershwin created a handful of works which are among the (approximately) to be used in the weekly meetings that he started finest achievements of any American . He turned popular there. Many believe it to be a Negro spiritual, which is ironic as it song into a vital and respectable art form by embellishing it with was actually written by a slave trader. The Band is dedicating this the harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic resources of serious music. piece in memoriam to the victims of the 9/11 attacks. His musical successes came not from an innate musical gift, but Jesus Christ Superstar () from hard work as well as a passion and realization that popular Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice conceived Jesus Christ idioms could become something important, and something Superstar as a work for the theater, but it appeared first as a American in the hands of a good musician. He was not yet 39 when record because its writers could not find a producer willing to take his death from a brain tumor shocked and saddened the world. In a chance on so daring a production. Things became much easier 1926 George traveled to England to manage the production of his for them, however, after the record went Gold. The self-described Lady Be Good in London. Before the opening, he spent a week in “rock ” told the story of the last seven days of Christ in such Paris with his friends. While there he conceived and started work a flamboyant, campy, and mind-blowing fashion that despite a on An American in Paris. Two years later, on another trip to Paris mixed press and the opposition from various religious groups, the he continued work on American in Paris. On August 1, 1928 he show became a media hype and a box office hit. The movie version completed the piano sketch and started work on the , was released in 1973. It opened in New York at the Mark Hellinger which he completed on November 18. Walter Damrosch conducted Theater on October 12, 1971 and ran for 720 performances. the premier performance at Carnegie Hall on December 13, 1928. The Sound of Music (Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) Oklahoma! (Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) The Sound of Music is based on Maria Von Trapp’s autobiography, Oklahoma! is the first musical to be written by Rodgers and “The Trapp Family Singers.” and Theodore Bikel were Hammerstein. It is recognized as a landmark in the evolution of the show’s initial stars. The popular 1965 movie version starred the American musical theater. Oklahoma! fused story, songs and Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The Sound of Music was dances and introduced the dream ballet to represent hidden fears Oscar Hammerstein’s 35th and final work. “Edelweiss” was his last and desires of the characters. Oklahoma! is based on the 1931 play song, and he died nine months after the show opened. On “Green Grow the Lilacs” by Lynn Riggs. Initially titled Away We Broadway, the show opened in 1959 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater Go!, the show was renamed Oklahoma! for its Broadway run at the where it ran for 1443 performances, becoming the second longest- St. James Theater beginning on March 31, 1943. That run running show of the 1950s. It won for Best Musical continued for five years and nine weeks (2,212 performances). and Best Score and a Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Album. The Music Man (Meredith Willson) Selections from Grease ( & Jim Jacobs) The Music Man, one of the most popular musicals ever written, Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The clearly established newcomer Meredith Willson as one of the most musical is named for the 1950s working-class youth

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Program Notes — Broadway Favorites (cont.) subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School, follows ten working-class teenagers as Check Out These Cultural Links! they navigate the complexities of love, cars, and drive-ins. In its Brevard County is very fortunate to have many high-quality cultural record-breaking original Broadway production, Grease was a organizations. Below is a list of some of these organizations with links to raunchy, raw, aggressive, vulgar show that since has been their Internet Web sites. sanitized and tamed down by subsequent productions. Grease first was performed in 1971 in . From there, it has been Brevard Chorale http://www.brevardchorale.org successful on both stage and screen, but the content has changed Brevard Cultural Alliance http://www.artsbrevard.org drastically and its characters have become more generic. After Brevard Symphony Orchestra http://www.brevardsymphony.com 3,388 performances on Broadway, Grease went on to become a Central Florida Winds http://www.cfwinds.org hugely successful film, and a staple of theatre groups. Indialantic Chamber Singers http://www.indialanticchambersingers.org West Side Story Selection (Leonard Bernstein & ) Melbourne Chamber Music Society http://www.melbournechambermusicsociety.com West Side Story is a modern version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Melbourne Community Orchestra http://www.mcorchestra.org Julliet. The lyrics were written by, at that time, Broadway newcomer Stephen Sondheim. It was a jolting work, not just for its Melbourne Municipal Band http://www.mmband.net story, but also for its compelling music and advanced use of dance New Horizons Band (Melbourne) http://www.newhorizonsbandmelbourne.org within the framework of a musical play. A 1961 film version rehearses Tuesdays 9am-11am Email: [email protected] starred Richard Beymer, Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, and Rita Space Coast Flute Choir http://www.scfo.org Moreno. The Broadway version ran for 732 performances beginning Space Coast Symphony Orchestra http://www.spacecoastsymphony.org on September 26, 1957 at the Winter Garden.

South Pacific (Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) ’s fourth musical, South Pacific, was based on two novels by James Michener, “Our Heroine” and “Tales of the South Pacific.” The main story deals with the romance between a naïve Navy nurse from Little Rock and a worldly French planter living on a Pacific island. The secondary story deals with Lt. Joe Cable’s tender and tragic romance with a Polynesian girl. Lyricist and co-librettist Hammerstein explored the relationships among these characters, and the cultural contrasts were supported by musical ones. The score veered between lush, operatic ballads and earthy comedic numbers. The story also allowed Rodgers & Hammerstein to portray the rough-edged, lusty character of U.S. servicemen and to present music with an exotic flavor (“Bali Ha’i”). The result was a massive hit. Opening on Broadway April 7, 1949, South Pacific ran for 1,925 performances. —————————————— Program Notes by Terri Poppell. Copyright 2016 Proudly providing Brevard County with quality musical entertainment since 1985

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