Spring Concert - Stow

Wind Ensemble
Mr. Brian Monroe: Director
20th Century Fox Theme..........................................................Alfred Newman
Arranged: Brian Monroe
Star Ways Medley............................................................................John Williams
Arranged: James Burden
“A long time ago and a galaxy far, far away” screen writer and director George Lucas
began his first draft of a film that was destined to become a classic. Star Wars is a highly
imaginative, entertainment experience which transports the audience from the grimness of
everyday life to an unknown galaxy. This high energy adventure combines the hardware of
contemporary science fiction with the romantic fantasies of sword and sorcery to produce a
classic Hollywood legend.
The brilliant musical score composed by John Williams is full of high adventure and soaring
spirits in keeping with the character of the film itself. Themes for each of the characters, written
in the manner of Wagnerian Leitmotifs, appear in a variety of permutations determined by the
dramatic action as it unfolds on the screen. For “Star Wars Medley” arranger James Burden has
chosen representative portions of both the main and end titles. This transcription retains all the
fire and excitement, tension and exuberance of the original.
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Trombones.............................................................Meredith
Wilson
Arranged by : Leroy Anderson & Transcribed for Band by: Jay Bocook
Conducted by Mr. John Addington: Student Teacher, the University of Akron.
This fabulous arrangement has been a trademark of the Boston Pops Orchestra for years.
Legendary arranger Leroy Anderson cleverly mixes Sousa march strains in and around the
rousing march from "The Music Man" with a skill that just can't be duplicated.
B o n h a m ...................................................................Christopher Rouse
featuring senior Percussionists: Tim Horak, Dan Phillips, Kristy Cliffe, Matt Shall,
Kevin Scheutzow, Sarah Pike, Ming Jay Shiao & Junior Richard Patterson.
HONORING THE CLASS OF 2002
Please hold applause until all names have been read.
Voodoo...................................................................................................Daniel Bukvich
"Voodoo" was commissioned by the Idaho All-State Band in 1984 with the idea of
creating a totally new "theater style" composition. The result is in no way related to the practice
of voodoo. The title of the piece is derived from a conversation Bukvich had with a friend who
was a missionary nun living in Guatemala. "She told me that the sounds of the jungle at night
time reminded her of those old “voodoo” movies she used to watch,". Bukvich invokes many
of these sounds as he transports us to the dark and scary environment described by his friend.
Memories &
Music
a Spring Concert
Honoring the Class of 2002
with the:
Concert Band, Symphonic
Band
& Wind Ensemble
Wednesday, May 15th, 2002
7:00 P.M.
Stow-Munroe Falls H.S.
Concert Band
Mr. Chad Guess: Director
Of Dark Lords and Ancient Kings...................................Roland Barrett
Symphonic Band
Pictures at and Exhibition..........................................Modest Moussorgsky
Arranged by James Curnow
Conducted by Mr. John Addington: Student Teacher, the University of Akron.
1. Promenade
2. TheHut of Bubba Yaga
Mr. Greg Newman: Director
3. The Great Gate of Kiev.
Modest Moussorgsky (1839-1881) composed this colorful suite for piano solo in 1874,
prompted by ten drawings and watercolors by his late friend Victor Hartmann. Nearly fifty years
after it was written, French composer Maurice Ravel transcribed the work for orchestra. James
Curnow has skillfully adapted the Ravel arrangement for concert band.
We are introduced to the paintings by the Promenade. The music, starting simply with solo
trumpet depicts a person wandering through a gallery. The Hut of Bubba Yaga is based on
Hartmann's rendering of an elaborate bronze clock in the form of a hut on fowl's legs, the
supposed dwelling of Baba-Yaga, a witch from Russian folklore who grinds bones to feed her
captives. This frightening piece could be taken to represent all the nameless terrors of childhood.
The movement segues directly into The Great Gate Of Kiev. Hartmann's design for The Great
Gate Of Kiev was created in response to a competition organized to commemorate Tsar
Alexander II's escape from an assassination attempt at Kiev. The project was eventually canceled,
but the watercolor stimulated Moussorgsky to write a grandiose piece full of bells, cathedral
organs and chanting monks.
Selections from Les Miserables..................................Boublil/Schönberg
Arranged by Warren Barker
At the end of the Day
I Dreamed a Dream
Master of the House
On My Own
Do You Hear the People Sing?
Disney at the Movies..........................................................................John Higgins
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Walt Disney’s birth. Who could imagine a
world without his creations. This showcase of Disney songs spans over fifty years of hits from
Walt Disney's animated features. The medley includes: "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah", "A Dream Is A
Wish Your Heart Makes","Never Smile At A Crocodile", "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious",
"Bare Necessities", "Under the Sea", "Be Our Guest", "Beauty And The Beast", "A Whole New
World", "Friend Like Me", "Circle of Life", Can You Feel the Love Tonight, “This Land”, and
“Colors of the Wind”.
Romanesque..................................................................................James Swearingen
In memory of Linda D. Kellam, band director 1999-2002
Music of the Night
(from Phantom of the Opera).......Andrew
Lloyd Weber
Arranged by Calvin Custer
featuring junior trumpeter Pat Baker and Senior trumpeter Tony Dipane
Cartoon Carnival...........................................................................James Bullock
Saturday morning cartoons are some of the fondest memories of children and adults alike.
Cartoon Carnival is a medley of some of the greatest cartoon themes including: Merrily We Roll
Along; The Flintstones; Jetsons Main Theme; The Animaniacs; This Is It!; The Merry-GoRound Broke Down. So now.......One with the show!
Highlights from West Side Story...................................Leonard Bernstein
Arranged by Ted Ingram
The son of a Russian immigrant, Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990), began life in Lawrence,
Massachusetts. He studied composition at Harvard, where he first met Aaron Copland. Their
friendship was cemented in the early 1940's in the workshops at Tanglewood. Bernstein achieved
instant conducting fame when, at the age of twenty-five, with sixteen hours notice, he conducted
a broadcast of the New York Philharmonic Symphony after the scheduled guest conductor,
Bruno Walter, became suddenly ill. It was his fate to be far more than routinely successful. His
vast talents, charming personality, and mastery of semantics succeeded where many have failed in
communicating to others his own intense enthusiasm for and love of music. Bernstein wrote
symphonies, ballets, an opera, a film score, works for violin and chorus with orchestra, four
Broadway musicals, and several smaller works for solo and chamber music groups. He divided
his affections between traditional classical music and the jazz and Tin Pan Alley sound of
popular America. Bernstein incorporated the element of jazz in many of his compositions,
including his Mass and the score to West Side Story. Highlights from West Side Story includes
the tunes “I feel Pretty,” “Maria,” and “Tonight.”