Repertoire

Here is a list of most of the repertoire the band will be preparing during the 2024–25 season (subject to change):

  • David Maslanka: Rollo Takes a Walk
  • Kenneth Alford: The Mad Major
  • Victor Herbert/arr. Herbert L. Clarke, ed. Mark Rogers: March of the Toys
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams/Beeler: Rhosymedre
  • Stuart Johnson: A Circus Suite
  • Leroy Anderson: Bugler’s Holiday
  • Donald Coakley: Lyric Essay
  • Alfred Reed (arr.): Greensleeves
  • Giacomo Puccini/arr. Mark Williams: Nessun Dorma
  • John Bratton/arr. Paul Yoder: Teddy Bear’s Picnic
  • Alan Menken/arr. Jay Bocock: The Little Mermaid
  • Manuel de Falla/arr. Jay Bocock: Ritual Fire Dance
  • Johan de Meij: Symphony No. 1, mvmt. 5 — Hobbits
  • Árpád Balázs: Music with Chequered Ears
  • Kristin Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez/arr. Michael Brown: Let It Go (from Frozen)
  • Chang Su Koh (arr.): Arirang and Akatonbo
  • John Kander/arr. Ted Ricketts: Selections from Chicago

Recent Repertoire

For those of you considering joining the band, here’s a list of what we played in our main concerts over the past number of years:

2023–24 Season

Spring 2024: All That Jazz

  • Adam Gorb: Eine Kleine Yiddishe Ragmusik
  • Toshio Mashima (arr.): When The Saints Go Marching In
  • Fred Stride: Parade of the Matadors
  • Philip Sparke (arr.): Bohemian Rhapsody
  • Dana Wilson: Night Chant
  • Paul Murtha (arr.): The Best of James Bond

Winter 2024: “25”

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams: Flourish for Wind Band
  • Percy Grainger: Colonial Song
  • André Jutras: Three Folk Miniatures
  • Frank Ticheli: Amazing Grace
  • Cait Nishimura: Chasing Sunlight
  • Brian Hogg: Llwyn Onn
  • Calvin Custer: Variations on Scarborough Fair

Fall 2023: “55”

  • Ron Milne: Auprès de ma blonde
  • Fergal Carroll: Song of Lir
  • Alfred Reed: A Jubilant Overture
  • Morten Laurisden, trans. H. Robert Reynolds: O Magnum Mysterium
  • Dolores Claman, arr. Howard Cable: The Hockey Theme
  • Morley Calvert: Suite on Canadian Folk Songs
  • Clare Grundman: A Welsh Rhapsody

2022–23 Season

Winter and Spring 2023

  • Jodie Blackshaw: 13 Moons: South
  • Robert Thurston: Festive Dances
  • Kenneth Alford: Colonel Bogey March
  • Gustav Holst: Second Suite in F for Military Band
  • Lennon & McCartney/Sweeney: Music of the Beatles
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams: Folk Song Suite
  • Percy Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry
  • Donald Coakley: Canadian Folk Rhapsody
  • Thomas Root: Polly Oliver

Fall 2022: Something Old, Something New

  • Hiroki Takahashi: Three Folk Songs
  • Malcolm Arnold/John Paynter: Prelude, Siciliano, and Rondo
  • Gene Puerling (arr.): Silent Night
  • Lerner & Loewe/Philip Gordon: Excerpts from Brigadoon
  • Johann Strauss/Alfred Reed: Radetzky March
  • Cait Nishimura: Boreal Pines

2021–22 Season

Spring 2022: Perseverance

  • Bryant: Dusk
  • Mackey: Let Me Be Frank With You
  • Silva: Dança Brasileira N° 1
  • Pigovat: In the Mood of Tango
  • Grainger: Ye Banks and Braes o’ Bonnie Doon
  • Holzmann/Edmondson: Blaze Away
  • Sousa: Liberty Bell

Fall 2021: An Adaptable Autumn (A Flexible Fall)

  • Meechan: Plaza Fanfare
  • Thomas: Sharp Nine
  • Taylor: Intermountain Underground
  • Gershwin/Murtha: Rhapsody in Blue
  • Grundman: Hebrides Suite
  • Jutras: C’est Noël

2019–20 Season

Even though our 2019-20 season was cut short, most of the music we were preparing for our March concert was performed in our 2022–23 season:

  • Reed: The Hounds of Spring
  • Vaughan Williams: Folk Song Suite
  • Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry
  • Coakley: Canadian Folk Rhapsody

Fall 2019: A European Vacation

  • Nishimura: Chasing Sunlight
  • Pütz: Four Sketches for Band
  • Rudin: Lied ohne Worte
  • Leigh/Erickson: Man of La Mancha
  • Alvarez: Suspiros de España
  • Ellerby: Paris Sketches

2018-2019 Season

Golden Jubilee Series: New Millennium

  • Calvert: Marianne s’en va-t-au moulin (from Suite on Canadian Folk Songs)
  • Birney: Riley Park
  • Whitacre: Sleep
  • Meechan: Perpetua (World Premiere)
  • Bratton/Yoder: Teddy Bear’s Picnic
  • Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy (selected movements)
  • Williams/Custer: Theme from Schindler’s List
  • Harnick & Bock: Fiddler on the Roof

Golden Jubilee Series: The 1980s and ’90s

  • Custer: Variations on “Scarborough Fair”
  • Woolfenden: Illyrian Dances
  • Queen/arr. Sparke: Bohemian Rhapsody
  • Holst: First Suite in Eb
  • Ticheli: Amazing Grace
  • Holsinger: On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss
  • Boublil et al/Barker: Selections from Les Misérables

2017-2018 Season

(It’s Finally) Spring Concert

  • Narro: España Cañí
  • Maslanka: Rollo Takes a Walk
  • Strauss/Davis: Allerseelen
  • Wilson: Shubuduba (Canadian Premiere)

Golden Jubilee Series: The 1960s and ’70s

  • arr. Lowden: Music of the Beatles
  • Gibb/arr. Cacavas: Saturday Night Fever
  • Möller/arr. Yoder: The Happy Wanderer
  • Giovannini: Alla Barocco
  • Texidor: Amparito Roca
  • Grundman: The Blue and the Gray
  • arr. Cable: Strangers in the Night
  • Dello Joio: Satiric Dances for a Comedy by Aristophanes
  • Huffine: Them Basses

Family and Friends 2017

  • Alford: On the Quarter Deck
  • Biebl/Cameron: Ave Maria
  • Lerner & Loewe/Gordon: Excerpts from Brigadoon
  • Root: Polly Oliver
  • Chatman: Mountain Sojourn
  • Livingston, Evans/Wright: Silver Bells
  • Henderson/Cable: A Canadian Brass Christmas
  • Anderson: Sleigh Ride

2016-2017 Season

Spirit and Song

  • Chattaway: Parade of Tall Ships
  • Hendricks: Dance of Night With Moon (World Premiere)
  • Daehn: With Quiet Courage
  • Williams: Midway March
  • Colgrass: Old Churches
  • arr. Wagnar: Lord of the Rings
  • Johnson: Triumphant Spirit

It’s Still All About Me

  • Ellerby: Neapolitan Serenade
  • Copland: Old American Songs (selected)
  • Holst: Second Suite in F
  • Schuman: When Jesus Wept
  • McAnespie: A Century of Progress
  • Gershwin: Walking The Dog

A Symphonic Season

  • Lauridsen/Reynolds: O Magnum Mysterium
  • Reed (arr.): Greensleeves
  • Herbert/Clarke/Rogers: March of the Toys
  • Gershwin/Lowden: Porgy and Bess
  • Jutras: C’est Noël

2015-2016 Season

Tradition(al)!

  • Vaughan Wiliams: Sea Songs
  • Coakley: Lyric Essay
  • Harnick & Bock: Fiddler on the Roof
  • Traditional, arr. Duff: Newfoundland Folk Song (She’s Like the Swallow)
  • Grundman: An Irish Rhapsody
  • Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry

Transcriptions and Themes

  • Williams: John Williams: The Symphonic Marches
  • Brahms/Buehlman: Blessed Are They (from “Ein Deutsches Requiem”)
  • Bizet/McAlister & Reed: Carmen (Suite from the Opera)
  • De Falla/Bocook: Ritual Fire Dance
  • Bach/Reed: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
  • Shostakovich/Erickson: Folk Dances

Folk Songs and Festive Fare

  • Strauss: Radetzky March
  • Coakley: Canadian Folk Rhapsody
  • Ticheli: Amazing Grace
  • Jutras: Three Folk Miniatures
  • Hogg: Llwyn Onn
  • Sheldon: Festive Dances
  • Anderson: A Christmas Festival

2014-15 Season

Across the Country & Around the World

  • Alvarez: Suspiros de España
  • Hogg: In Stillness
  • Ito: Fantasia Classica for Wind Ensemble
  • Yariv: The Match of Hope
  • Herberman: The Fisher Who Died In His Bed

Chamber Music & Band Classics 3

  • Carter: Overture for Winds
  • Grainger: Ye Banks and Braes O’ Bonnie Doon
  • Reed: A Festival Prelude
  • Vaughan Williams: Folk Song Suite

Family and Friends 2014

  • Sousa: Untitled March
  • Arnold/Paynter: Prelude, Siciliano, and Rondo
  • Milne: Auprès de ma blonde
  • Carroll: Song of Lir
  • Lloyd Webber: Phantom of the Opera
  • Anderson: Sleigh Ride

2013–14 Season

  • Holst: First Suite in E-Flat
  • Grainger: Colonial Song
  • Calvert: Suite on Canadian Folk Songs
  • Lennon & McCartney/Sweeney: Music of the Beatles
  • Alford: Colonel Bogey
  • King/Bainum: Barnum & Bailey’s Favorite
  • Wagner/Caillet: Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral
  • Johnson: A Circus Suite
  • Williams/Custer: Theme from Schindler’s List
  • Garland/Clark: In The Mood
  • Tchaikovsky/Longfield: Nutcracker Suite
  • Anderson: A Christmas Festival
  • Chaplin/Barker: The Music of Charlie Chaplin
  • Bagley: National Emblem
  • Vaughan Williams: Flourish for Wind Band
  • Webber/Nowak: Andrew Lloyd Webber: A Symphonic Portrait
  • arr. Bobrowitz: Hava Nagila
  • Erickson: Air for Band

2012–13 Season

  • Bell: From Chaos to the Birth of a Dancing Star
  • Meechan: I.S.S. Flyover
  • Pütz: Four Sketches for Band
  • Reed: Three Revelations from the Lotus Sutra, III. Rejoicing
  • Yurko: Night Dances
  • Zdechlik: Chorale and Shaker Dance
  • Sousa: Liberty Bell
  • Rudin: Lied Ohne Worte
  • Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy (Suite adapt. Vinson)
  • Bart/Leyden: Oliver
  • Anderson: A Christmas Festival
  • Denza/Reed: Funiculi Funicula
  • Boublil et al/Barker: Selections from Les Misérables

2011–12 Season

  • Jacob: William Byrd Suite (Movements 1, 2, 5 and 6)
  • Vaughan Williams/Beeler: Rhosymedre
  • Copland: Old American Songs (Simple Gifts, The Dodger, Zion’s Walls, Ching-a-Ring-Chaw)
  • Holst: Second Suite in F
  • Holsinger: On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss
  • Fucik/Glover: Entrance of the Gladiators
  • Anderson: Sleigh Ride
  • Leigh/Erickson: Man of La Mancha
  • Von Suppe: Light Cavalry Overture
  • arr. Duff: Newfoundland Folk Song (She’s Like The Swallow)
  • Lauridsen/Reynolds: O Magnum Mysterium

2010–11 Season

Things That Move Us

  • Vaughan Williams: Sea Songs
  • Wagner/Votta: Trauermusik
  • Maslanka: Rollo Takes a Walk
  • Brakstad: The Old Railwaystation
  • Bennett: Suite of Old American Dances (mvmts. 1, 2, 3)

The Retro Show

  • Grafulla/Reeves/Fennell: Washington Grays
  • Offenbach/Isaac: Ballet Parisien
  • Anderson: The Irish Washerwoman
  • Mozart/Barnes: The Impresario (Overture)
  • Lerner & Loewe/Gordon: Excerpts from Brigadoon
  • Wood/Hawkins: Montmartre March

An Unconventional Christmas

  • Reed: Russian Christmas Music
  • Grainger/Goldman: Sussex Mummers’ Christmas Carol
  • Herbert/Clarke/Rogers: March of the Toys
  • Biebl/Cameron: Ave Maria
  • Edmondson (arr.): Christmas Recollections

2009-10 Season

  • Howe: Pentland Hills
  • Brahms/Buehlman: Blessed Are They (from “Ein Deutsches Requiem”/”A German Requiem”)
  • Chatman: Mountain Sojourn
  • Hamlisch/Edmondson: A Chorus Line, The Movie
  • Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry
  • Bratton/Yoder: Teddy Bear’s Picnic
  • Kopetz: Old Irish Song
  • Vaughan Williams: Flourish for Wind Band
  • Bach/Reed: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
  • Nelson: Courtly Airs and Dances
  • Wilson: Odysseus and the Sirens
  • Grundman: An Irish Rhapsody

2008-09 Season

  • Holst: Second Suite in F
  • Gershwin/Lowden: Porgy and Bess
  • Arnold: Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo
  • Harnick & Bock: Fiddler on the Roof
  • Strauss: Allerseelen
  • Lavallée/Bray: O Canada
  • Claman/Cable: The Hockey Theme
  • Gayfer: Canadian Landscape
  • McAnespie: A Century of Progress
  • Chatman: Grouse Mountain Lullaby
  • Cable: Scottish Rhapsody
  • Jutras: Three Folk Miniatures
  • Birney: Riley Park (World Premiere)
  • Milne: Auprès de ma blonde

2007-08 Season

  • King: Barnum and Bailey’s Favourite
  • Carroll: Song of Lir
  • Grainger: Suite from Lincolnshire Posy
  • Reed: Greensleeves (What Child is This?)
  • Barker (arr.): Les Misérables
  • Custer: Variations on “Scarborough Fair”
  • Calvert: Suite on Canadian Folk Songs
  • Vaughan Williams: Folk Song Suite
  • Thurston: Festive Dances
  • Hultgren: Bright Sunlit Morning (w/vocal soloist)
  • Persichetti: Celebrations (Movements III, V and IX) (w/choirs)
  • Stamp: Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision (w/choirs)
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