Concerts:2006 Midwest Clinic Concerts

December 19, 2006 – McLean High School Symphonic Band

McClean (Va.) High School Symphonic Band
James Kirchenbauer, conductor
Arnald D. Gabriel, conductor
David Boltz, conductor
Carl J. Bianchi, conductor
Loras John Schissel, conductor
Douglas Wallace, timpani
Boston Brass

• The Red Machine – Peter Graham
• The Last Rose of Summer – Thomas Moore
• Concerto for Timpani and Wind Ensemble - Ney Rosauro
• Symphonic Metamorphosis – Paul Hindemith
• El Rey de Fransia – Robert Sheldon
• The Gallant Seventh – John Philip Sousa
• Symphony No. 15 Finale – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Journey Through Orion – Julie Giroux
• Cinematic Fantasy – Rick DeJonge
• The Circus Bee – Henry Fillmore

December 19, 2006 – United States Air Force Band

United States Air Force Band (Washington, D.C.)
Dennis M. Layendecker, conductor
Arnald D. Gabriel, conductor
Eric Sabatino, harp

• Carnival Overture – Antonin Dvorak
• No Finer Calling – Julie Giroux
• The Engulfed Cathedral - Claude Debussy
• Birds of Thunder – John Bliss
• Harp Concerto – Alberto Ginastera
• The Wild Blue Yonder – James Barnes
• Americans We – Henry Fillmore
• Theme and Variations, Op 43a – Arnold Schoenberg
• The Skaters' Waltz – Charles Émile Lévy
• The U.S. Air Force March – Robert M. Crawford

December 20, 2006 – Kennesaw Mountain High School Wind Symphony

Kennesaw Mountain High School (Kennesaw, Ga.) Wind Symphony
David Starnes, conductor
Jeff Harper, conductor
Donald Starnes, conductor
David Roth, conductor
Gary Green, conductor
Tom Batiuk, guest artist

• Rush – Samuel Hazo
• Symphony No. 1 – Richard Saucedo
• Contre Qui, Rose - Morten Lauridsen
• Motion – Brian Balmages
• While I Watch the Yellow Wheat – Larry Daehn
• Crystal Moon – Larry Clark Roth
• Chester – William Schuman
• With Each Sunset – Richard Saucedo
• Symphony for Band – Vincent Persichetti
• His Excellency – Henry Fillmore

December 20, 2006 – Permian High School Symphonic Band

Permian High School (Odessa, Tx.) Symphonic Band
Michael Watts, conductor
John Carroll, conductor
Richard E. Strange, conductor
Harry Begian, conductor
J.R. McEntyre, conductor
Chares E. Nail, conductor
David L. Jackson, trombone
Perian High School Percussion Ensemble

• El Camino Real – Alfred Reed
• Ave Verum Corpus – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Overture to "Béatrice et Bénédict" - Hector Berlioz
• Immortal Dream – Nathan Daughtrey
• Marche Militaire Francaise – Camille Saint-Saëns
• Concertino for Trombone – Frank Ticheli
• Echoes – Samuel Hazo
• Turbine – John Mackey

December 20, 2006 – Doerre Intermediate School Honor Band

Doerre Intermediate School (Klein, Tx.) Honor Band
Susan Scarborough, conductor
Matthew Fehl, conductor
Dick Clardy, conductor
S.L. Albritton, conductor
Todd Clearwater, conductor

• Dynasty – Jason Nitsch
• Balladair – Frank Erickson
• Dance Poem - Leroy Osmon
• May Day in Red Square – Christopher Prentice
• Tales of the Minstrel Boy – Rick Kirby
• Pat-A-Pan – Tom Wallace
• The Last Rose of Summer – Thomas Moore
• La Pequeña Marcha Española – Fred Oldencott
• The Phantom of Dark Hollow – Robert Sheldon

December 20, 2006 – The Musashino Academia Musicae Wind Ensemble

The Musashino Academia Musicae (Tokyo, Japan) Wind Ensemble
Kenneth Bloomquist, conductor
Russell Coleman, conductor
Ray Cramer, conductor
Don Wilcox, conductor
Christopher Martin, trumpet

• Emblems – Aaron Copland
• Pastorale – Ron Nelson
• Three Japanese Dances - Bernard Rogers
• The White Rose – John Philip Sousa
• Fantasia and Rondo – Carl Maria von Weber Coleman
• Tune in a Popular London Style – Percy Aldridge Grainger Rogers Wilcox
• Kelly's Field – Jennifer Higdon
• Fantaisie brilliante – Jean-Baptiste Arban
• Danse Diabolique – Joseph Hellmesberger Jr.

December 21, 2006 – Hill Country Middle School Symphonic Band

Hill Country Middle School (Austin, Tx.) Symphonic Band
Cheryl Floyd, conductor
Chuck Fischer, conductor
Kevin Sedatole, conductor
Richard Floyd, conductor
Frant Ticheli, conductor

• Hill Country Flourishes – Steven Barton
• Air and March – Henry Purcell
• Dancing at Stonehenge - Anthony Suter
• Variations on a Sailing Song – Carl Strommen
• Journey Down Niagara – Christopher Tucker
• The Lowlands of Scotland – Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Joy – Frank Ticheli
• Whirlwind – Jodie Blackshaw
• Solid Men to the Front! – John Philip Sousa

December 21, 2006 – Winter Park High School Wind Ensemble

Winter Park (Fla.) High School Wind Ensemble
John P. LaCognata, conductor
Richard Ervin, conductor
Thomas Caneva, conductor
David Waybright, conductor
Brant Karrick, conductor

• Russlan and Ludmilla – Mikhail Glinka
• Variants on a Shaped Note Tune – Johnnie Vinson
• Sea to Shining Sea - James Curnow
• Four Scottish Dances – Malcolm Arnold
• Ave Maria – Anton Bruckner
• Sentinels – Roland Barrett Waybright
• Children's March – Percy Aldridge Grainger
• A Sacred Suite – Brant Karrick
• British Eighth March – Zo Elliott

December 21, 2006 – Dallas Wind Symphony

Dallas (Tx.) Wind Symphony
Jerry Junkin, conductor

• Nitro – Frank Ticheli
• First Suite in E-flat for Military Band – Gustav Holst
• Redline Tango - John Mackey
• Lincolnshire Posy – Percy Aldridge Grainger
• Festive Overture – Dmitri Shostakovich
• The Stars and Stripes Forever – John Philip Sousa

December 22, 2006 – VanderCook College of Music Symphonic Band

VanderCook College of Music (Chicago, Ill.) Symphonic Band
Charles T. Menghini, conductor
Stacey L. Larson, conductor
Freddy Martin, conductor
Richard E. Brittain, conductor
Gary Green, conductor
H. Robert Reynolds, conductor
Christopher Martin, trumpet
Michael Martin, trumpet

• Exhaltations! – William Owens
• First Suite in E-flat – Gustav Holst
• Concerto in B-flat - Antonio Vivaldi
• Shadow Rituals – Michael Markowski
• A Santa Cecilia – Luigi Radaelli
• At Water’s Edge – Gary P. Gilroy
• Song and Dance – Richard Saucedo
• Il Bersagliere March – Eduardo Boccalari
• Penguin Promenade – Mike Hannickel
• Alleluia! Laudamus Te – Alfred Reed
• Bugler's Holiday – Leroy Anderson
• Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town – J Fred Coots

December 22, 2006 – Friendswood High School Wind Ensemble

Friendswood (Tx.) High School Wind Ensemble
Gregory Dick, conductor
Aaron Brown, conductor
Julio Sanchez, conductor
Tom Bennett, conductor
Richard Crain, conductor

• Short Ride in a Fast Machine – John Adams
• Crossings in Time – Michael Sweeney
• Roman Carnival Overture - Hector Berlioz
• An Irish Air – Robert Sheldon
• Danse Slave – Emmanuel Chabrier
• Huntingtower – Ottorino Respighi
• A Time to Dance – Julie Giroux
• Sabre and Spurs – John Philip Sousa
• Strange Humors – John Mackey
• The Enemy God and the Dance of the Spirits – Sergei Prokofiev

December 22, 2006 - Lakota West High School Symphonic Winds

Lakota West High School (West Chester, Ohio) Symphonic Winds
Greg Snyder, conductor
Chris Brandenburg, conductor
Drews Mitchell, conductor
Robert Jorgensen, conductor
Stephen Gage, conductor

• Skysplitter! - Vincent Oppido
• No Shadow of Turning - David Gillingham
• Metroplex - Robert Sheldon
• Heroic Tribute - James Curnow
• Heartbeat Five - Gary P Gilroy
• Concerto Grosso - Robert Russell Bennett
• The Nutmeggers - Eric Osterling
• Goin' Home for Christmas - arr. Larry Clark
• Hebrides Suite - Clare Grundman
• Finale from "Symphony No. 1" - Vasily Kalinnikov

December 22, 2006 - McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band

McCracken Middle School (Skokie, Ill.) Symphonic Band
Chip De Stefano, conductor
Stephen Peterson, conductor
Donald Stahlberg, conductor
Donald DeRoche, conductor
Don Owens, conductor

• Joy Fantastique - Douglas Akey
  
• Ancient Dialogue - Patrick Burns
  
• Little Suite for Band - Clare Grundman
  
• Albanian Dance - Shelley Hanson
  
• Our Kingsland Spring - Samuel Hazo
  
• Chinese Folk Song Medley - Robert Garofalo
  
• The Orange Bowl - Henry Fillmore
  
• Prelude and Fugue in D minor - J. S. Bach
• Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon - Michael Sweeney
  
• Symphony No. 4, Mvt. 4 - Andrew Boysen Jr

December 22, 2006 – The Oregon Symphonic Band

The Oregon Symphonic Band (Hillsboro)
Michael Burch-Pesses, conductor
David Becker, conductor
James Curnow, conductor
Jeffrey Reynolds, conductor

• Symphonic Fanfare – Mark Camphouse
• Hine e Hine – Fanny Howie
• City of Glass and Steel - David Bobrowitz
• Firefall – Roland Barrett
• Wrong Note Rag – Leonard Bernstein
• Vientos y Tangos – Michael Gandolfi
• The Screamer – Fred Jewell
• Canticle at Christmastide – James Curnow
• Lyric Essay – Donald Coakley
• Beautiful Oregon – James Barnes
• Whispers from the Heart – George Farmer
• Symphony III – Vittorio Giannini

December 23, 2006 – Fairfax Wind Symphony

Fairfax (Va.) Wind Symphony
Stanley Schoonover, conductor
Arnald D. Gabriel, conductor
Richard C. Crain, conductor
John E. Casagrande, conductor
Carl J. Bianchi, conductor
Russell Penney, tenor

• Canzona – Peter Mennin
• Pepita Greus – Pascual Perez Chovi
• Midnight Sky - Brian Balmages
• Variants on a Mediaeval Tune – Norman Dello Joio
• The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol – Percy Aldridge Grainger
• Symphonic Prelude – Mark Camphouse
• Irish Songs (Smith) – Robert W. Smith
• Nessun Dorma – Giacomo Puccini
• Amazonas – Frank Salutari
• Berceuse and Finale from "The Firebird" – Igor Stravinsky
• The Chimes of Liberty – Edwin Franko Goldman

December 23, 2006 – Saitama Sakae High School Wind Orchestra

Saitama Sakae High School (Saitama City, Japan) Wind Orchestra
Minoru Otaki, conductor
Linda Moorhouse, conductor
Yumiko Watanabe, conductor
Akira Oku, conductor
Discussion of Percussion Q21

• Feste Romane – Ottorino Respighi
• Florentiner – Julius Fucik
• Bogoroditse Devo - Sergei Rachmaninoff
• Fitzwilliam Suite – Philip Gordon
• Sòlas Ané – Samuel Hazo
• A Festival Suite – Yo Goto
• Concertino for Four Percussion and Wind Ensemble – David Gillingham
• Cherished Days – Koh Shishikura
• La suite excentrique – Masamicz Amano
• America the Beautiful – Samuel Augustus Ward
• First Suite for Band – Alfred Reed