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SPRING 2008 PROGRAM

Monday, December 8, 2008

• Fanfares Royale and Prelude (Lully/Schaefer)
• To the Airborne (Nelson)
• Mask of Night (Benson)
• Concerto for Marimba and Wind Ensemble (Gillingham) Mvt. 3
  Meredith Butterworth, marimba
• Wild Blue Yonder (Barnes)

Monday, October 6, 2008

• First Suite in Eb (Holst)
• Elegy - (Chance)
• Five Folksongs for Soprano and Band (Bernard Gilmore)
  Anne Harley, soprano soloist
• Baron Cimitiere's Mambo (Grantham)
• The Melody Shop (King)

Monday, April 28, 2008
UNC Charlotte-Robinson Theatre

• Children's Overture (Bozza)
• A Child's Embrace (Charles Rochester Young)
• Children's March (Grainger)
• Variations on a Nursery Tune, op. 25 (Dohnanyi/Paynter/Grymes)
  Gregory Underwood, piano soloist
• Children's Dance (from Merry Mount) (Hanson)

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
UNC Charlotte-Robinson Theatre

• Radiant Joy (Steven Bryant)
• Give Us This Day: Short Symphony for Wind Ensemble (2007) (Maslanka)
• Chicago Tribune March (Chambers)
• Symphonic Episodes (Balmages) - Balmages, conducting
• Finale from Symphony No. 4 (Tchaikovsky/Safranek)

FALL 2007 PROGRAM

Monday, December 3, 2007
UNC Charlotte-Robinson Theatre

• Shape-Note Tune Variants for Band (Walter Hartley)
• Folk Dances (Shostakovich) - Jamie Caporizo, conducting
• Quiet City (Copland/Hunsberger)
• Cheetah (Husa)
• Fourth of July (Gould)

NCMEA Convention
Winston-Salem Convention Center
Sunday, November 11, 2007

• Blaze (Steve Rouse) - N.C. premiere
• Savannah River Holiday (Nelson)
• Quiet City (Copland/Hunsberger) (Chris Fensom, trumpet-Susan Savage, English horn)
• The World is Waiting for the Sunrise (Alford)
• Cheetah (Husa) - N.C. premiere
• Fourth of July (Gould)

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
UNC Charlotte-Robinson Theatre

• Blaze (Steve Rouse)
• Savannah River Holiday (Ron Nelson)
• Be Thou My Vision (David Gillingham)
• OTSERF 2 (David Holsinger)
• The World is Waiting for the Sunrise (Alford)

SPRING 2007 PROGRAM

Wednesday, April 25, 2007
UNC Charlotte-Robinson Theatre

• Mother Earth, A Fanfare (Maslanka)
• Birds in Space (Hartley) [Clarinet Quartet: Jeremy Yager-Eb cl., Hiro Tanaka, Bb cl., Morgan Bell, Bb cl., Sara Funderburk, Bass cl.]
• Florentiner March (Fucik)
• Strange Humors (John Mackey) [Mr. Rick Dior, solo African Drums]
• Blackbird (Lennon/McCartney, arr. Shelley Berg) [Faculty Jazz Combo: Noel Friedline-piano, Rick Dior-drums, Ron Brendle-acoustic bass]
• Danza Final, from "Estancia" (Ginastera)

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
UNC Charlotte-Robinson Theatre

• Lauds (Ron Nelson)
• Molly on the Shore (Grainger)
• Pantomime for Solo Euphonium and Band (Philip Sparke) - Lucas Hulett, soloist
• Dialogues for Saxophone Quartet, Winds and Percussion - (James Curnow)
  Grant Draper, John Page III, Jacob Drum, Joshua Lancaster, soloists
• Jupiter from "The Planets" (Holst)
• Variations on "America" (Ives)

FALL 2006 PROGRAM
Bells, Bells, Bells

Monday, November 27, 2006

• "The Bells" from William Byrd Suite (Jacob)
• Blithe Bells (Bach/Grainger)
• Rondo from Piano Concerto No. 2 (Beethoven/arr. Yeago)
• Bells for Stokowski (Daugherty)
• Liberty Bell March (Sousa)

Tuesday, October 3, 2006
UNC Charlotte-Robinson Theatre

• Smetana Fanfare (Husa)
• When Jesus Wept (Schuman)
• Grand Choeur Et Dialogue (Gigout)
• Crown Imperial (Walton)
• Liturgical Dances (Holsinger)
• Rolling Thunder (Fillmore)

SPRING 2006 PROGRAM

Wednesday, April 27, 2006
UNC Charlotte-Robinson Theatre

• Overture: Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna (Franz von Suppe/Fillmore)
• Machine (1990/1999) (William Bolcom)
• Country Band March (1903) (Charles Ives)
• Symphony No. 2 (Frank Ticheli)

CBDNA performance - Vanderbilt University, February 25, 2006
& Robinson Hall, UNC Charlotte, March 1, 2006

• Sinfonia Caroliniana for Wind Ensemble (2005) (Walter S. Hartley)
• Fantasy on a Japanese Folk Song (2005)
  (Samuel R. Hazo, composer/guest conductor)
• Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Band (Paul Creston) - Dr. Will Campbell, soloist
• Concertino for Four Percussion and Wind Ensemble (David Gillingham)
• "Apollo Unleashed" from Symphony No. 2 (Frank Ticheli)

FALL 2005 PROGRAM

October 4, 2005
Robinson Hall, UNC Charlotte

• Nonet for Chamber Winds (Walter S. Hartley) - premiere performance
• Selections from The Danserye (Susato/Dunnigan)
• Fantasia in G Major (J.S. Bach/Goldman-Leist)
• Zion (Dan Welcher)

Monday, December 5, 2005
Robinson Hall, UNC Charlotte

• Mangulina (Paul Basler)
• Marche Ecossaise (Debussy)
• Concerto for Clarinet (Artie Shaw) - Eugene Kavadlo, soloist
• Robinson Suite (Joseph Earp, composer/guest conductor)
• Symphony No. 2 (Frank Ticheli) - mvts 1 & 2

SPRING 2005 PROGRAM

March 2, 2005
Robinson Hall, UNC Charlotte

• Chautauqua Overture (Walter S. Hartley)
• Perthshire Majesty (Samuel Hazo)
• Concerto for Three Trombones and Band (Walter S. Hartley)
• In Memoriam (Walter S. Hartley)
• Fourth Symphony (James Barnes)

Wednesday, April 27, 2005
UNC Charlotte-Robinson Theatre

• Without Warning! (Stephen Melillo)
• An American Elegy (Frank Ticheli)
• Night Dances for Wind Ensemble (Bruce Yurko)
• Trittico (Nelhybel)
• Washington Greys (Grafulla)

FALL 2004 PROGRAM

October 19, 2004
Vance High School

• Festive Overture (Shostakovich/Hunsberger)
• Engulfed Cathedral (Debussy/Patterson)
• Commando March (Barber)
• Aspen Jubilee (Nelson)
• American Salute (Gould)

December 6, 2004
UNC Charlotte-Robinson Theatre

• Fanfare for a New Era (Stamp)
• Flower Song, from "Carmen" (Bizet/Harding)
• Irish Tune from Country Derry (Grainger)

• Lincolnshire Posy (Grainger)
  I. Lisbon Bay
  II. Horkstow Grange
  III. Rufford Park Poachers
  IV. The Brisk Young Sailor
  V. Lord Melbourne
  VI. Lost Lady Found

• The Power of Living, from the "Tender Land" (Copland)

SPRING 2004 PROGRAM

SPRING 2003 PROGRAM

• Fanfare from La Peri-Brass Ensemble (Paul Dukas)
• Circus Pastiche
  Entry of the Gladiators (Julius Fucik)
  A Night in June (Karl L. King)
  In Storm and Sunshine (John Clifford Heed)
• Mambo Furioso (Brant Karrick)
• Finale, Symphony No. 5 (Dmitri Shostakovitch/arr. Righter)
• Cartoon (Paul Hart)

• Finale from the Tone Poem, Mazeppa (Franz Liszt/arr. Kindig)
• Horizon (John Gibson)
• The Girl with Flaxen Hair (Claude Debussy/arr. Brand)
• Concertino for Timpani, Winds and Percussion (Donald H. White) - Rick Dior, timpani soloist
• With Heart and Voice (David Gillingham)

2002 PROGRAM

Sunday, February 24, 2002, 3:00 pm,
McGlohon Theatre, Spirit Square, Charlotte

• Flourish for the Glorious John (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
• Noisy Wheels of Joy (Eric Whitacre)
• Song (William Bolcom) (in honor of the retirement of H. Robert Reynolds)
• Sonoran Desert Holiday (Ron Nelson)
• Clowns

Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 8:00 pm,
McGlohon Theatre, Spirit Square, Charlotte

• Celebration Overture (Paul Creston)
• Four Scottish Dances (Malcolm Arnold)
• March of the Steel Men (Belsterling)
• The President's Trio - trumpet trio - (Frank Bencriscutto)

2001 PROGRAM

Saturday, October 27, 8:00 pm, 
McGlohon Theatre, Spirit Square, Charlotte

• American Overture for Band (Joseph Wilcox Jenkins)
• Valdres (Johannes Hanssen)
• October (Eric Whitacre)
• Pastime (Jack Stamp)
• Colours (Roger Cichy)

Friday, December 7, 8:00 pm, 
University Hills Baptist Church, University City

w/University Choirs

• Fanfares Royale (John Baptiste Lully, arr. by William Schaefer)
• Fantasies on Themes of Haydn (Norman Dello Joio)
• My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone (Percy Aldridge Grainger)
• Russian Christmas Music (Alfred Reed)
• Christmas Cantata for Brass and Voices (Daniel Pinkham) w/University Choirs

North Carolina Music Educators Association
annual convention in Winston-Salem
Monday, November 11, 2002 at 8:30 am.