ANCHOR BAY BAND BOOSTER EXECUTIVE BOARD The Anchor Bay High School Instrumental Music Department Tom Stanton, President Chris Worton, Vice President - Fundraising proudly presents the Kathy Simpson, Vice President - Bingo Holly Bennett, Treasurer Dean Larson, Student Accounts CONCERT BAND Lynnette O’Brien, Secretary P. David Visnaw II, Instrumental Music Director and the ANCHOR BAY HIGH SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION SYMPHONIC BAND Ms. Judy Stefanac, Principal Mr. Hank Anderson, Assistant Principal in a Mr. Vic Balaj, Assistant Principal Mrs. Sherry Kenwood, Assistant Principal WINTER CONCERT UPCOMING INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC EVENTS 1/13/04 — Band Booster Meeting (7:00PM, ABHS Band Room) 1/22/04 — Jazz Ensemble Concert (7:30PM, ABHS) 2/12/04 - 2/14/04 — CMU Jazz Festival (Mt. Pleasant, MI) 2/24/04 — AB Pre-Festival Concert (TBA, ABHS) Wednesday, December 10, 2003 3/5/04 or 3/6/04 — MSBOA District 16 Band Festival (TBA) 7:30 P.M. 4/7/04 — Band Booster Meeting (7:00PM, ABHS) Anchor Bay High School Auditorium 5/6/04 — Band Booster Meeting (7:00PM. ABHS) 5/12/04 — Spring Instrumental Music Concert (7:30PM, ABHS) 5/13/04 — Spring Instrumental Music Concert (7:30PM, ABHS) Michael R. Sauer, Instrumental Music Director 5/20/04 - 5/23/04 — Chicago Trip! P. David Visnaw II, Instrumental Music Director 6/1/04 — Instrumental Music Banquet Jennifer Martinico, Student Teacher PROGRAM SYMPHONIC BAND CONCERT BAND PICCOLO BASS CLARINET FRENCH HORN Apryl O'Leary Heather Green* Crystal Dillon Stephanie White Melissa Meteyer* Courtney Dornburg The Coast Guard’s March.........…………......………....K. King Amanda Ruhlman Elise Holderbaum Amanda Shirey Jeff Payne*+ FLUTE Derek Jones Amanda April Jamie McCullough Apple Island Legend.......….………..….……...........J. Curnow Theresa Chirio BASSOON Genna Randazzo* Brittani Cunningham Ben Hanson+ Karen Rosenbusch Caroline Haas* Jenna Hill A Christmas Collection……………...……………..E. Del Borgo Lindsay Hornibrook ALTO SAXOPHONE Antoinette Klempay* Jackie Heide TROMBONE Carolyn Murray Cassie Bienenstein Jeanine Blom* Melinda Redwine Bobby Caretti Dan Groth Amanda Trembley Brandon DeCaluwe*+ Deanna Hines SYMPHONIC BAND PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE Nicole Vanderhoff Erica Deforest Sarah Janulis* Melinda Maddock Dani Kopson Jingle Bells?……………………….…………………arr. M. Paich Jody Shields* John McQuiston OBOE Christina Summers Meghan Root+ Chelsey Mittlestat Jarett Smith Kim Stemp TENOR SAXOPHONE CLARINET Dylan Campbell* SYMPHONIC BAND Vida Austin Patrick O'Brien* EUPHONIUM Shaina Barry Rachel Olivares Josh Bennett* English Folk Song Suite.......……............R. Vaughn Williams Amy Bowron Maxwell Price Kyle Green Jessica Haag Jessica Keller Jessica Irwin Daniel Michelson* III. March Michael Johnson II BARITONE SAXOPHONE Jeremy Rhodes Paige Laemmerman Amy Bowron Kristen Long Darryl Hentrich Tiffany Reeves Josh Stros* TUBA Cajun Folk Songs…………....……..………..……....….F. Ticheli Theresa Robichaud Bryn Watnoski* Jessica Bannasch Jason Saghy*+ Candice Forrest* Jessica White Eric Kociemba I. La Belle et le Capitaine Courtney Wynne* TRUMPET Matt Wagner*+ II. Belle Nicole Zvara Mike Abele Matt Accivatti Joshua Burns* PERCUSSION ALTO CLARINET Brian Colbert Eric Anderson Salvation is Created…..…..Tschesnokoff / arr. Houseknecht Alaena Parsons Jeremy Glefke Billy Andrews Aaron Qualls Kelly Grossman Shawn Crowl Andrew Karasinski* Sean Demers Thaddeus Kulczycki Scott Larson* The Nutcracker Suite…………...Tschaikowsky/arr. Johnson Richard Reece Joshua Miller* Chris Roehr Joe Monsur Sarah Tucker Christopher Murray* Robert Nowak Stephanie Szabo Immediately following tonight’s concert, please join us in the cafeteria * Denotes Section Leader for an afterglow and a performance by the ABHS Jazz Ensemble. + Denotes East Shore Honors Band PROGRAM NOTES PROGRAM NOTES COAST GUARD’S MARCH SALVATION IS CREATED Karl Lawrence King began his long career in music at the age of 11 when he bought a cornet with Composed by Russian Pevel Tschesnokoff and arranged by Bruce Houseknect, Salvation Is money earned by selling newspapers. He was born in Paintersville, Ohio, in 1891, but his family Created has become a standard in wind literature. It is a Russian Orthodox Communion hymn moved to Canton, Ohio in 1902, and it was there that he began lessons on the cornet. He soon based on a simple chant melody and Psalm 74. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Salvation is Cre- exchanged that instrument for a euphonium, which he played first in the Canton “Marine” Band and ated has become a favorite in the Russian Orthodox church. The original Russian text is as follows: later in the local Thayer Military Band. His only formal music instruction consisted of four piano Spaseniye Sodelal Yesi Posrede Zemli Bozhe. Alliluya (Salvation is created in the midst of the lessons and one harmony lesson from a musical show director, William Bradford; his academic earth, O God. Alleluia). education ended with the eighth grade. By the time he was 17 King had his first composition pub- lished. ENGLISH FOLK SONG SUITE (MOVEMENT III, MARCH) APPLE ISLAND LEGEND Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in Down, Ampney, England in 1872, and died in London in 1958. He was acknowledged as Britain’s leading composer after the death of Sir Edward Elgar in James Curnow was born in Port Huron, Michigan and raised in Royal Oak, Michigan. He lives in 1934, and he was the leader of the 20th-century English national school. From 1938 intil death, his Nicholasville, Kentucky where he is president, composer, and educational consultant for Curnow time was devoted to composition, folk song research and publication, church music, and music for Music Press, Inc., publishers of significant music for concert band, symphonic band, and brass amateur use. His main contributions include nine symphonies and other orchestral works, including band. He also serves as Composer-in-residence on the faculty of Asbury College in Wilmore, Ken- Variations on the Theme by Thomas Tallis, solo works such as the Tuba Concerto, choral works, tucky. His formal training was received at Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) and at Michi- operas, and several works for band, including Sea Songs, Toccata Marziale, Flourish for Wind gan State University (East Lansing, Michigan), where he was a euphonium student of Leonard Band, and Rhosymedre (arr. Beeler). His Symphony No. 8 contains Scherzo alla Marcia, a move- Falcone, and a conducting student of Dr. Harry Begian. ment composed entirely for wind section and often performed as an individual work by wind ensem- bles. This work has been commissioned by Mr. Larry Cohen and the supporters of the Orchard Lake Michigan Middle School Band program, Douglas Blackwell, conductor. At the Mid-Western Music English Folk Song Suite was composed for British military band in 1924. It is the three movements Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on January 18, 1997, Apple Island Legend’s premiere perform- (March-Seventeen Come Sunday, Intermezzo-My Bonny Boy, and March-Folk Songs from ance featured the Orchard Lake Middle School Symphony Band with the composer conducting. Summerset). Based entirely on folk music sources, the work in its entirety is approximately nine and Apple Island Legend is dedicated to the many young musicians who, with bright eyes and strong one-half minutes long. hearts, share their gift of music. English Folk Song Suite, along with the two Suites by Gustav Holst, was one of the first works in Apple Island is located in the center of Orchard Lake and lies within the boundaries of the City of this century’s repertoire of compositions specifically composed for wind band. Vaughan Williams’s Orchard Lake Village, Michigan. It is a small island and with a cedar forest, which is now uninhab- use of folk music materials can be attributed to his nearly life-long interest and research in English ited but once was a Cherokee and Chippewa Indian reservation. Apple Island has a number of folk songs. Folk sources can be found in many of his other works from this period, as Nationalism in legends of its own. Best known of all seems to be that Chief Pontiac (Bowon-diac 1720-1769), a music flourished during the years between the two world wars. person of great energy, intelligence and oratorical skill, used the island as a retreat and is actually buried somewhere near Chief Pontiac’s Mound. Apple Island Legend strives to capture the THE NUTCRACKER SUITE (Selections from) beauty of the island and the surrounding area and to pay homage to the colorful and charismatic Peter IlyichTchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, Russia in the western Ural area of the life of the Native American chant (not exact quotes) that is still used today in their sacred religious country. He studied law in Saint Petersburg and took music classes at the Saint Petersburg Conser- ceremonies. vatory. There his teachers included Russian composer and pianist Anton Rubinstein, from whom Tchaikovsky subsequently took advanced instruction in orchestration. In 1866 composer-pianist A CHRISTMAS COLLECTION Nicholas Rubinstein, Anton's brother, obtained for Tchaikovsky the post of teacher of harmony at the Moscow Conservatory. There the young composer met dramatist Aleksandr Nikolayevich Os- Elliot Del Borgo is a highly respected composer of scores for orchestra, chorus, and chamber trovsky, who wrote the libretto for Tchaikovsky's first opera, The Voyevoda (1868). From this period groups, as well as for over 135 works for wind band. He is also an experienced teacher and is also date Tchaikovsky’s operas Undine (1869) and The Oprichnik (1872); the Piano Concerto no.