This Week's Concert -- Burlington Iowa Municipal Band

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For those specifically SEEKING web pages from past concerts, our recent concert archives are now available online.

Links which may be of interest to members of our audience:

Soloist Rose Bishop - https://www.rosebishopflute.com

Jean Lafitte - https://www.jeanlafitte.org

composer Henry Mancini - https://www.henrymancini.com

007 - https://www.007.com

This week's concert will feature conductor Derrick Murphy. Derrick is the band director at Burlington Community High School, and plays trumpet in many local and regional groups, including our band, the Southeast Iowa Symphony, the Southeast Iowa Band, the Southeast Iowa Brass Quintet, and the Bullis-Rutter Big Band, generally serving as the lead or principal player.

Derrick has chosen a program of music from Broadway shows and motion pictures, including: The Pink Panther by Henry Mancini; Porgy and Bess, by George and Ira Gershwin and Du Bose and Dorothy Heyward, arranged by James Barnes, featuring I Got Plenty O' Nuttin', It Ain't Necessarily So, Summertime, Crab Man, and Bess, You Is My Woman Now; Birdland by Josef Zawinal, arranged by Bob Lowden; The Wizard of Oz, by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, also arranged by James Barnes, featuring Over The Rainbow, Ding, Dong, The Witch is Dead, We're Off To See The Wizard, The Merry Old Land of Oz, and If I Only Had a Brain; In The Mood by Joe Garland; Themes from 007, arranged by Robert W. Lowden; Selections from Les Misérables, arranged by Warren Barker, featuring At The End Of The Day, I Dreamed a Dream, Master of the House, On My Own, and Do You Hear the People Sing?; Selections from Chicago by Fred Ebb and John Kander, a medley including And All That Jazz, Cell Block Tango, Roxie, and We Both Reached For The Gun; and our traditional closing march, The Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa.

Derrick has asked international prize-winning flutist Rose Bishop to join us as soloist for this concert. Rose is the Instructor of Flute at St. Ambrose University, Coe College, Cornell College, and Kirkwood Community College, and is familiar to local audiences as Principal Flute of the Southeast Iowa Symphony. She also serves as Principal Flute with the Quincy Symphony Orchestra, the Palisades Orchestra, Sinfonia Nolte, and the American Gothic Performing Arts Festival.