Note from the webmaster: We update this web site at least once a week during our summer concert season. Since the program for each Sunday concert is finalized at our rehearsal on Monday evening, we generally post the week's update sometime on Tuesday or Wednesday. Unfortunately, if you are viewing this page on a summer Monday, what follows will undoubtedly be the information for YESTERDAY'S concert.
The Burlington Municipal Band's final concert of the summer season will be on Sunday August 4th, 7:30 PM at the Crapo Park bandshell. The concert will follow the band's tradition of making its last concert a "round robin" event with multiple conductors and soloists. Those are the basic facts. But there's so much contained in these facts that words are inadequate to express. How did it get to be time for our last concert so quickly? It seems that we just got started! The passage of time seems to always go faster when we are enjoying ourselves, so that must be the explanation!
Before we get to the details of the concert we'd like to take just a moment to say thank you to all who have attended our concerts this summer with a special measure of gratitude to those who have contributed to the Muni Band Foundation. Our sincere thanks to all!
As has become a tradition, this will be our "round robin" concert with multiple conductors and soloists. Probably the easiest way to inform you is simply to list the selections along with who will conduct them and who will be featured:
BHS band director Derrick Murphy will begin the concert, conducting Franz Von Suppe's Light Cavalry Overture arranged by Henry Fillmore.
Next will be Jacob Yochum, conducting Johann Strauss's Chit Chat Polka arranged by Norman Richardson.
Adam Creager will conduct John Williams's Star Wars - The Marches arranged by Jerry Brubaker including the Star Wars Main Theme, Parade of the Ewoks, The Imperial March, Augie's Great Municipal Band, and The Throne Room.
Derrick Murphy will return to the podium to conduct The Pursuit, composed by Micah Bell, for his wife, Dr. Sarah Roberts who will perform as saxophone soloist. Sarah is Associate Professor of Saxophone and Jazz Studies at the University of Texas at Tyler (Sarah's mom Cindy just happens to play flute and piccolo in the band and is secretary of the Muni Band Foundation). Micah is a freelance trumpet player, a composer/arranger and Professor of Trumpet and Music at Tyler Junior College.
Dr. Sarah Roberts
Following Sarah's performance, Carmen Lachnitt will conduct Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods arranged by Michael Brown, featuring Carmen's daughter Anne as vocal soloist.
Anne Lachnitt
Ron Coberley will conduct
Leroy Anderson's Serenata.
Derrick Murphy will return yet again to lead the Muni Jazz Band in Micah Bell's composition The Eagle Strut, (hopefully with Micah and Sarah both performing).
Micah Bell
Jim Priebe will conduct Procession of the Nobles by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, arranged by Erik Leidzen.
Our own, revered Sue Kristensen will conduct our traditional closing march, The Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa.
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