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)