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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 80, includes people of all ages representing many occupations. Most of our concerts have a specific theme upon which the music focuses. Those themes have often led us to include exceedingly difficult works, which we willingly do, and to include special guest artists. The Band gives several concerts throughout the year. Our concerts include many diverse musical genres, composers, and often previously unpublished works for band. Each program is planned to please a variety of musical tastes. If you would like more information about the Band, or wish to join, send us a message to [email protected] or contact 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 NUMBER 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 Equipment Manager ...... David Douglass Business Manager ...... Michelle Pittman Publicity/Advertising Coordinator ...... Mike Freeman Librarian ...... Cheree Coleman, Marianne Rigolini Secretary ...... Ken Morris

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Chairman’s Message Concert Calendar *

*All dates, times, and venues subject to change. Join our e-mail Good Afternoon and Welcome! or mailing list for concert updates, or visit www.CommunityBandOfBrevard.com. Today’s performance, An Afternoon marks the beginning of the Band’s 33rd season. The “Broadway The Community Band of Brevard Musical” has been an exciting part of American cultural life since the mid-nineteenth century and its history is a All concerts below take place at Merritt Island High School Auditorium fascinating one. While Broadway was a popular destination for -goers for many years, it wasn’t until the end of A Holiday Celebration th the 19 century that plays featuring music and dance Sunday, December 9, 2018 at 3:00 PM — FREE concert became an entertainment staple. The concert features a mix of musical selections that were first performed during the “Golden Age of Broadway”, which spans from the late 1940’s through the 50’s, and other selections considered to be from the age of “Contemporary Broadway”, which were performed during the past 30 years from 1988 until present day.

Please take a moment to read through the program notes. This will help you familiarize yourself with each composer and provide you with some insight on the music being performed this An Invitation afternoon. Membership in The Community Band of Brevard is available to anyone who currently plays, or played, a band instrument. We We endeavor to keep all patrons informed of upcoming do not audition new members. Please join us for rehearsals on concerts, if you or a friend or family member is not Wednesdays at 7 P.M. in the band room at Edgewood Jr./Sr. High on currently on our e-mail or regular mailing list, and wish to Merritt Island. Call 321-338-6210 or 321-698-5821 for more info. receive future flyers (or update your information), you can complete the short form enclosed in your program, or send an email to [email protected].

As always, thank you for attending today’s concert and for the generous support you have provided the Band during the past 33 Donating to The Community Band of Brevard years. I hope you enjoy today’s concert and look forward to seeing you, your family and friends at our annual Winter Concert “A The Community Band of Brevard has been granted 501(c)(3) Holiday Celebration” to be held on Sunday, December 9, 2018 status by the IRS. Contributions to the Band are deductible under at 3:00 PM at the Merritt Island High School Auditorium. section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code. The Band is also qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers, or David E. Scarborough gifts under section 2055, 2106, or 2522 of the Code. Note that you Chairman, may now contribute larger gifts for tax purposes simply by claiming The Community Band of Brevard your gift to The Community Band of Brevard.

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 Patrons of Note  Our Conductor The following patrons made significant donations during the past 12 Marion A. Scott, a native of months. This list includes only patrons we are fully aware of, and does not South Carolina, taught in Brevard include the many generous, yet anonymous, patrons without whom we County, Florida schools for 39 could not continue to exist. To all of you, we express our gratitude. years. From 1959 to 1965 he served as Band Director at Southwest Junior Conductor’s Circle ($1,000+) High School in Melbourne. In 1965 Donald J. Hendrick he founded the Merritt Island High jCARES (Jacobs, Aerodyne, ERC) School Band when the school Larry and Brenda Vickers opened, and directed the group until 1975. The school ’ s Platinum Baton ($500-$999) Gold Baton ($250-$499) instrumental program included a Harris Foundation Bart and Judy Lipofsky 230-piece marching band, wind Ray Norman and Karen Horton Gary and Connie Miller ensemble, symphonic band, Ed and Kim Shinskie Bradley and Marjorie Varuska woodwind and brass ensemble Wakelight Technologies Inc. classes, concert band, two jazz ensembles, and a jazz theory class. He retired as Director of Bands at BCC (now Eastern Florida State Silver Baton ($100-$249) Bronze Baton ($50-$99) College), Cocoa Campus in 1999. Donald Bryan Pat Bender Mr. Scott earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education Richard and Pauline Charpentier Merle D. Buck from the University of Georgia, and Master of Music in Performance Lt. Col. Gregory (ret) & Joyce Clark George L. English from the University of South Florida. His professional affiliations Dr. Carol Cook-Koenig Morris and Ethel Goodmark include Phi Beta Mu, Phi Mu Alpha, ASBDA (for which he served as Clarence and Nena Galligan Patricia Fread State Chairman), MENC, NAJE, CBDNA, and FMEA. He has also been Parker and Barbara Holden Jackie Haines active in the Florida Bandmaster’s Association, in which he has held Gillian R. Jones Gary K. Hobbs the position of District Chairman of the FBA Board of Directors, and Raymond and Ruthann Kuhlman Edward and Dorothy Hudak has served on the FBA Stage Band Committee. Mary K. Lowe Kathryn M. James Mr. Scott has served as an adjudicator for concert, solo, ensemble, Norman and Sharon Lowry Ronald and Mary Ann Lang and stage band contests throughout Florida. He has served as Ken and Marsha Morris James and Sharon Malecki Conductor/Clinician for various music festivals throughout Florida, Antoinette D. Pemberton G.A. and Charlene Tarver Jr. such as the All-State Jr. College Band in 1976, All-State Reading Bands Sandra Scott Rita Tonito in 1977 and 1978, All-State Junior High Concert Band in 1980, Brevard Marjorie B. Smith James and Kathleen Tulley Jr. All-County Junior High School Band in 1982, Hillsborough All-County Dale and Linda Swartout Lawrence and Beverly Worley High School Band in 1986, and the Brevard All-County High School Harry Vickers, Esq. Douglas and Patricia Zinn Band in 1988 and 1998. In 1985 he established the Brevard Community Band (now The Community Band of Brevard). 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

Flute/Piccolo Alto Saxophone Baritone/Euphonium Sara Bryan David Ammerman Bud Hilton Kitty Colman † Noah Bryan Gerald Leach Mike Freeman * Jeff Vickers † Ron Youmans* Bart Lipofsky * Scott Zinn † Olympia Lord Tenor Saxophone Connie Miller David Douglass Tuba Jennifer Reeg David Colman Margie Varuska Baritone Ed Moran Carolyn Ward Saxophone Jeff Murphree Percussion Oboe Steve Bryan † Jane Francoeur † French Horn Suzanne Clark Dee Pait Becky Atwood Rusty Jones* Michelle Pittman Becca McCullough Lee Medlin Please Visit and Support Marianne Rigolini Paul Rigolini Evie Tompkins The Foosaner Art Museum Florida Institute of Technology 1463 Highland Ave, Melbourne, FL 32935 Bassoon Trumpet/Cornet Electric Bass Mike McLaughlin Bill Brown Gary Roland Robert Sawyer Anna Bryan Cheree Coleman B♭ Clarinet John Pergola Elizabeth Bryan Ken Morris † Judy Dixon Tracy Patt Susan Eklund * David Wilson * Suzanne Gardner Virginia McKinney Trombone Eddie Pallone Daniel Bryan Neva Rossignol Gary Roland Harry Vickers David Scarborough † (Concertmaster) Dale Swartout Frances Youmans * †

Bass Clarinet Kathleen Moore-Manship * Charter Member— participated in the Band’s premiere performance on 11/21/1985 † Section Leader

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Program Program Notes — An Afternoon on Broadway

** As a courtesy to fellow audience members, kindly silence all cell phones. ** Broadway Journey: 25 Years of Golden Classics (Arranged by James Christensen) The Star Spangled Banner...... Francis Scott Key Broadway Journey is a spectacular medley featuring the best from Broadway's golden era (1934-1959). Includes: (Anything Broadway Journey: 25 Years of Golden Classics . . . Arr. James Goes); It Ain't Necessarily So ( Porgy And Bess); It's Delovely (Red; Hot; Christensen and Blue); My Funny Valentine (Babes In Arms); Oklahoma! (Oklahoma!); How Are Things In Glocca Morra? (Finian's Rainbow); Another Op'nin'; . . . . Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda/Arr. Jerry Another Show (Kiss Me Kate); Getting To Know You (The King And I); Brubaker Stranger In Paradise (); On The Street Where You Live (My Fair Lady); Let Me Entertain You (Gypsy). Selections from Wicked. . . . . Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz/Arr. Jay Bocook Hamilton (Words and Music by Lin-Manuel Miranda/Arranged by Jerry Brubaker) Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American composer, lyricist, playwright, and Selections from . . . . Music by and Lyrics by actor best known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals In /Arr. Ted Ricketts the Heights and Hamilton. Miranda is most celebrated for writing the book, music and lyrics for Hamilton: An American Musical, which has and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat . . .Music by been acclaimed as a pop culture phenomenon since its Broadway and Lyrics by /Arr. Michael Sweeney premiere in August 2015. The show earned the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and State Fair . . . . Music by and Lyrics by Oscar was nominated for a record-setting 16 , of which it won 11, Hammerstein/Arr. Paul Yoder including Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Book. For his performance in the lead role of Alexander Hamilton, Miranda was Intermission (15 minutes) nominated for another Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Hamilton: An American Musical premiered off-Broadway at The Public The Symphonic Gershwin . . . . Music by George Gershwin/Arr. Theater in January 2015, directed by Thomas Kail. Miranda wrote the Warren Barker book and score, and starred as the title character. The show received highly positive reviews, and its engagement was sold out. The show Kismet (Based on themes of A. Borodin). . . . By Robert Wright and began previews on Broadway in July 2015 at the Richard Rodgers George Forrest/Arr. Walter Beeler Theatre and officially opened on August 6, 2015, earning positive reviews. On the first night of Hamilton previews over 700 people lined Selections from . . . Music and Lyrics by Stephen up for lottery tickets. The Hamilton ticket lottery evolved into Sondheim/Arr. Stephen Bulla Ham4Ham, a series of outdoor mini-performances for lottery participants that was hosted daily by Miranda and cast members for . . . .Music by and Lyrics by Marc Shaiman over a year, until August 31, 2016. In May 2016, for his work in the role and /Arr. Ted Ricketts of Alexander Hamilton, Miranda received the Drama League Distinguished Performance Award. Miranda gave his last performance in Jersey Boys . . . . Arranged by Michael Brown Hamilton on July 9, 2016.

Annie Get Your Gun. . . . /Arr. Eric Leidzen

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Program Notes — An Afternoon on Broadway (cont.) Program Notes — An Afternoon on Broadway (cont.)

Selections from Wicked 1975 at the 46th Street Theatre and ran for 936 performances until (Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz/Arranged by Jay Bocook) 1977. Bob choreographed the original production, and his Rarely has a musical in modern times taken Broadway by storm the style is strongly identified with the show. Following a West End way this huge hit from Stephen Schwartz has done. The musical debut in 1979 which ran for 600 performances, Chicago was Wicked is an alternative telling of the story of the 1939 film and revived on Broadway in 1996, and a year later in the West End. 1900 book The Wizard of Oz, and , looks at what happened in the The Broadway revival holds the record as the longest-running Land of Oz…but from a different angle. The story centers on musical revival and the longest-running American musical in Elphaba, the misunderstood, smart, and fiery girl of emerald- Broadway history. It is the second longest-running show in green skin who grows up to become the notorious Wicked Witch of Broadway history, behind only The Phantom of the Opera, having the West and Galinda, the beautiful, blonde, popular girl who played its 7,486th performance on November 23, 2014, surpassing grows up to become Glinda the Good Witch of the South. Wicked is . The 2002 film version of the musical won the Academy a prequel to The Wizard of OZ and is the story of how Elphaba Award for Best Picture. becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, and it involves love, loss, hatred, envy and an unwillingness to accept anything that is Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Music by Andrew different. With a thrilling score, Selections from Wicked includes a Lloyd Webber and Lyrics by Tim Rice/Arr. Michael Sweeney) medley of hits, “No One Mourns the Wicked,” “Dancing Through One of the most enduring shows of all time, Joseph and the Life,” “No Good Deed,” “For Good,” and “Defying Gravity.” Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a reimagining of the Biblical Wicked has been hailed by The Times as “the defining story of Joseph, his father Jacob, eleven brothers and the coat of musical of the decade.” From the first electrifying note to the many colors. Told entirely through song with the help of a main final breathtaking moment, Wicked—the untold true story of the character Narrator, the musical follows preferred son Joseph. Witches of Oz—transfixes audiences with its wildly inventive story. After being sold into slavery by his brothers, he ingratiates himself It will send your spirits soaring to heights you’ll never forget. The with Egyptian noble Potiphar, but ends up in jail after refusing the highly successful show premiered on Broadway in 2003 and amorous advances of Potiphar’s wife. While imprisoned, Joseph continues to play there and in other venues around the world. discovers his ability to interpret dreams, and he soon finds himself in front of the mighty but troubled, Elvis-inspired, Pharaoh. Selections from Chicago (Words by Fred Ebb and Music by John Kander/Arr. Joseph’s solution to Egypt’s famine elevates him to Pharaoh’s Ted Ricketts) right-hand man and reunites him with his family. The magical Music from this academy award-winning movie is rapidly gaining musical is full of catchy songs in a variety of styles, from a parody popularity as it harkens back to the early jazz age and raucous life of French ballads (“Those Canaan Days”), to country-western style of gangster-era Chicago. This well-scored arrangement opens (“One More Angel in Heaven”) and calypso (“Benjamin Calypso”), with a bluesy trumpet solo and includes feature spots for all along with the unforgettable classics “Any Dream Will Do” and sections of the band as it winds through the hits “And All That “.” Jazz,” “,” “Roxie” and “They Both Reached for the Gun.” Chicago is an American musical with music by John State Fair (Music by Richard Rodgers and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein/Arr. Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and . Set in Paul Yoder) Jazz Age Chicago, the musical is based on a 1926 play of the same Rodgers and Hammerstein’s blue-ribbon winner was based on a name by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals novel by Phil Stong that was first turned into a non-musical 20th and crimes she reported on. The story is a satire on corruption in Century Fox film starring Will Rogers. The pair’s first—and only— the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the musical created expressly for the big screen, State Fair was "celebrity criminal". The original Broadway production opened in written after Oklahoma! and before Carousel, and evokes the Americana of both, but with a simpler, sunnier tone. Directed by

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Program Notes — An Afternoon on Broadway (cont.) Program Notes — An Afternoon on Broadway (cont.) Walter Lang, this State Fair featured Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, music is based on works by . “Stranger in Dick Haymes and Vivian Blaine in a story of the Frake family and Paradise” comes from Polovetsian Dances and the songs “And This their search for love, happiness, and a few prizes at the Iowa State is My Beloved” and “Baubles, Bangles and Beads” are from the D- Fair. A 1962 remake, directed by José Ferrer, re-set in Texas, was Major String Quartet. saucier in style, and even a little hipper with its rock ‘n’ roll flair; the cast here was led by Ann-Margret, Pat Boone and Bobby Darin. Selections from Sweeney Todd (Music and Lyrics by Stephen Songs shared in both versions included “Our State Fair,” “A Grand Sondheim/Arr. Stephen Bulla) Night for Singing,” and the wistfully perfect “It Might As Well Be The story of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Spring.” After two movie versions, State Fair became a Broadway first appeared in the 1830s in England and was soon adapted for musical in 1996, having started its trek to New York the previous the London stage. When , the celebrated August with a national tour that began, appropriately, in Des producer of hit Broadway musicals, saw a version of the play in Moines during the Iowa State Fair. Blue ribbons, roller coasters and London in the mid 1970s, he asked to collaborate corn dogs were abundant on both sides of the footlights. with him on a musical adaptation. When the new Sweeney Todd opened on Broadway in 1979, it became an instant hit and later The Symphonic Gershwin (Music by George Gershwin/Arr. Warren Barker) walked away with that year's Tony award—, Broadway's highest The Symphonic Gershwin contains three familiar works: An honor. The public was shocked but thoroughly entertained by the American in is a “rhapsodic ballet”, inspired by an overseas gruesome storyline of this musical thriller, which focuses on the trip in 1928. An opening section is followed by a rich “blues” with murderous machinations of a vengeful English barber and his strong rhythmic undercurrent as an American visitor, perhaps after accommodating landlady. The play follows the barber, Sweeney strolling into a cafe, succumbs to a spasm of homesickness. In a Todd, as he plots his revenge against Judge Turpin, who sent him coda, the spirit of the music returns to vivacity and bubbling to prison on false charges—an act which causes the destruction of exuberance, taxi horns contributing to the street noises and Sweeney's family. As Sweeney's revenge plot accidentally broadens atmosphere. Rhapsody in Blue was first performed by the Paul to include other citizens of the corrupt society of Victorian Whiteman Orchestra in 1924 with Gershwin playing the as-yet- London, his landlady, Mrs. Lovett, finds a way to cover up the unscored piano part “from the music in my mind.” Cuban Overture barber's crimes as well as her own. Through this darkly comic embodies the polyrhythmic essence of the rumba with the unique story, Wheeler explores the motivations for, and consequences of, percussive aspects of the island’s music. revenge.

Kismet (Based on themes of Alexander Borodin) By Robert Wright and George Hairspray (Music by Marc Shaiman and Lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Forrest/Arr. Walter Beeler Wittman/Arr. Ted Ricketts) Kismet is based on a 1911 play written by Edward Knoblock. It is Hairspray is a 1988 American dance comedy film written and set in ancient Baghdad and covers a 24-hour period during which a directed by , and starring Ricki Lake, Divine, Debbie roguish poet has many unlikely adventures. During the summer of Harry, Sonny , Jerry Stiller, Leslie Ann Powers, Colleen 1953, Kismet was presented in and San Francisco. It Fitzpatrick, and Michael St. Gerard. Most critics praised the film, opened in New York on December 3, 1953 at the Ziegfeld Theater although some were displeased with the overall campiness. The where it ran for 583 performances. The movie version, starring songs include 1960s-style dance music and "downtown" rhythm Howard Keel and Ann Blyth, was released in 1955. In 1965 Kismet and blues. In 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, plump teenager Tracy was revived at Lincoln Center. In 1985 it was added to the Turnblad's dream is to dance on The Corny Collins Show, a local repertory of the New York Opera. In 1978 an all-black version, TV dance program based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show. named Timbuktu, ran on Broadway for 221 performances. The When Tracy wins a role on the show, she becomes a celebrity overnight, and meets a colorful group of characters, leading to

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Program Notes — An Afternoon on Broadway (cont.) social change as Tracy campaigns for the show's integration. In Check Out These Cultural Links! 2003 it won eight Tony Awards, including one for Best Musical, out of 13 nominations. It ran for 2,642 performances, and closed Brevard County is very fortunate to have many high-quality cultural on January 4, 2009. organizations. Below is a list of some of these organizations with links to their Internet Web sites. Jersey Boys (Arranged by Michael Brown) Jersey Boys is a 2005 with music by Bob Gaudio, Brevard Chorale http://www.brevardchorale.org lyrics by Bob Crewe, and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. Brevard Cultural Alliance http://www.artsbrevard.org It is presented in a documentary-style format that dramatizes the Brevard Symphony Orchestra http://www.brevardsymphony.com formation, success and eventual break-up of the 1960s rock 'n' roll Central Florida Winds http://www.cfwinds.org group The Four Seasons. The musical is structured as four "seasons", each narrated by a different member of the band who Indialantic Chamber Singers http://www.indialanticchambersingers.org gives his own perspective on its history and music. Songs include Melbourne Chamber Music Society http://www.melbournechambermusicsociety.com "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Sherry", "December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)", Melbourne Community Orchestra http://www.mcorchestra.org "My Eyes Adored You", "Stay", "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", Melbourne Municipal Band http://www.mmband.net "Working My Way Back to You" and "Rag Doll", among others. The New Horizons Band (Melbourne) http://www.newhorizonsbandmelbourne.org title refers to the fact that the members of The Four Seasons are from New Jersey and are male. The musical ran on Broadway from rehearses Tuesdays 9am-11am Email: [email protected] 2005 to 2017. Jersey Boys won four 2006 Tony Awards including Space Coast Flute Choir http://www.scfo.org Best Musical, and the 2009 Award for Best New Space Coast Symphony Orchestra http://www.spacecoastsymphony.org Musical.

Annie Get Your Gun (Irving Berlin/Arr. Eric Leidzen) Annie Get Your Gun is a musical with lyrics and music by Irving Berlin and a book by and her brother Herbert Fields. The story is a fictionalized version of the life of Annie Oakley (1860–1926), a sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West, and her romance with sharpshooter Frank E. Butler (1847–1926), who meet at a shooting match. Annie joins Frank Butler in Col. Cody's Wild West Show. They tour the world performing before Royalty as well as the public at large. The 1946 Broadway production was a hit, and the musical had long runs in both New York (1,147 performances) and London, spawning revivals, a 1950 film version and versions. Songs that became hits include "There's No Business Like Show Business", "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly", "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun", "They Say It's Wonderful", and "Anything You Can Do." —————————————— Program Notes by David Scarborough Copyright 2018 Proudly providing Brevard County with quality musical

entertainment since 1985

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