Week 7 - July 25

Season finale !

Our 2012 concert season concludes with the following program:

MICHIGAN MADE - music of Michigan composers

Star Spangled Banner
Mesata (Pasa Doble) ........................................... Lloyd Conley
Kansa, suite for band .......................................... Lloyd Conley
Bolero for Band ................................................... Glenn Osser
A Symphonic Invention ...................................... Lloyd Conley
Beguine for Band ................................................. Glenn Osser
Block M, concert mach .......................................Jerry H. Bilik


Peter Makar Jr. IV, guest conductor



INTERMISSION


Excerpts from the summer TMI production of "CATS"
Selections to be announced

Week 6 - July 18

We're down to our last two weeks for the summer 2012 season, and our July 18 concert looks to include the following musical selections:

Torch of Liberty, march .................. Karl L. King

Morceau Symphonique ................... A. Guilmant

Kirsten Schaffert, trombone soloist

Hebrides Suite, ...................... Clare Grundman

movements I, II, III, & IV

La Banda Nascente ............................ B. Sbraccia

Intermission

On the Mall, march ................Edwin Franko Goldman

Flight of the Eagle ....................................John Wasson

Italian Festival .......................................... Glenn Osser

Semper Fidelis, march ................... John Philip Sousa

America the Beautiful / Star Spangled Banner

Jim Huber directing

Week 5 - July 11, 7:30pm

The Robert T. Ralston concert series continues with another evening of widely varied music from the Chemical City Band. Our featured soloist is Sam Huss, a 2012 graduate of Meridian High School.

The updated concert order is as follows:

Liberty Fanfare .................... John Williams/arr. Curnow
Variations on a theme from "Norma" ........ J. Arban/arr. Horton
Sam Huss, cornet soloist

Highlights from film "Exodus" .................. Ernest Gold/arr. Reed
Barnum and Bailey's Favorite, circus march .........Karl L. King

Intermission

Thundercrest Concert March ................... Eric Osterling
Broadway's Classics ................................ arr. Larry Norred
Interlochen Theme ................................. Howard Hanson/ arr. Balent
from the Symphony No. 2 "Romantic"
The Thunderbirds ................................... Bary Gray/arr. Jim Huber
America the Beautiful / Star Spangled Banner

Jim Huber, directing


Please join us for another enjoyable evening of music
in Midland's Central Park and the newly restored Nicholson-
Guenther band shell.