Ridgewood Concert Band Concert Season

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The 2012/2013 Ridgewood Concert Band Season

RCB Concert Season
October, 2012
December, 2012
February, 2013
April, 2013
May, 2013

Featured Soloists
SFC Jason Ham, Euphonium, United States Military Academy Band, West Point
Martha Mooke, Electric Viola
SFC Sam Kaestner, Bass Clarinet, United States Military Academy Band, West Point
Paul Van Ness, Piano
Winner of the 2012 - 2013 Youth Soloist Competition

Guest Conducting Appearances
Frank Battisti
Col. Arnald Gabriel
Johan de Meij
Michael Parloff

Fifth Annual Side By Side Concert
Top area high school musicians join the Ridgewood Concert Band for our Season Finale

Salute To Our Nation's Veterans
Friday, October 26, 2012
8:00 PM
West Side Presbyterian Church
Ridgewood, New Jersey

Featured Guest Soloist
SFC Jason Ham
Euphonium, United States Military Academy Band, West Point

Guest Conducting Appearance
Johan de Meij

Guest Ensemble
Rutgers University Symphony Band - Darryl Bott, Director

Program Highlights
Heritage of Freedom Fanfare- James M. Stephenson
U.F.O.Concerto for Euphonium and Concert Band - Johan de Meij
Festival Prelude on Star Spangled Banner - Dudley Buck
Sabers and Spurs - John Phillip Sousa
Solid Men to the Front - John Philip Sousa
Stars and Stripes Forever - John Philip Sousa
Taps Eternal Father - Gen. Daniel Butterfield & John B. Dykes
Elegy - John Barnes Chance

Music Electric
Friday, December 7, 2012
8:00 PM
Prelude Performance
7:30 PM
West Side Presbyterian Church
Ridgewood, New Jersey

Featured Guest Soloist
Martha Mooke
Electric Viola

Guest Conducting Appearance
Frank Battisti, Conductor Emeritus, New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble

Prelude Performance
Emerson High School Band
Michael Lione, Director

Program Highlights
X-ING for Electric Viola and Concert Band (World Premiere)- Martha Mooke
Symphony No. 2- John Barnes Chance
Salve Regina - Patrick Burns
Holiday Fanfare Medley - James Stephenson
UMOJA - Valerie Coleman

Freedom Rings
Friday, February 1, 2013
8:00 PM
Prelude Performance
7:30 PM
West Side Presbyterian Church
Ridgewood, New Jersey

Guest Conducting Appearance
Colonel Arnald D. Gabriel
Conductor Emeritus, The United States Air Force Band

Featured Guest Soloist
SFC Sam Kaestner, United States Military Academy Band, West Point
Bass Clarinet

Prelude Performance
Westwood High School Band
Dan Pena, Director

Program Highlights
Eternal Father Strong To Save - Claude T. Smith
Drill - Evan Ziporyn
Southern Harmony - Donad Grantham
Chimes of Liberty - Edwin Franko Goldman
Blue Lake Overture - John Barnes Chance
Russian Christmas Music - Alfred Reed
Italian Rhapsody - Julie Giroux
La Reine de Saba - Charles Gounod arranged by M. L. Lake

Piano and Winds
Friday, April 5, 2013
8:00 PM
Prelude Performance
7:30 PM
West Side Presbyterian Church
Ridgewood, New Jersey

Featured Guest Soloists
Paul Van Ness
Piano
And
The Ridgewood Concert Band Trumpet Trio

Guest Conducting Appearance
Michael Parloff

Prelude Concert
Hawthorne High School Band
Robert DuBois, Director

Program Highlights
Concerto For Piano and Winds - Igor Stravinsky
Symphonies of Wind Instruments - Igor Stravinsky
Incantation and Dance - John Barnes Chance
Symphony in B flat - Paul Hindemith
Variations on Chinese Folk Songs - James Stephenson
Selections From Les Miserables

Paul Van Ness

Michael Parloff

Season Finale
Friday, May 10, 2013
8:00 PM
West Side Presbyterian Church
Ridgewood, New Jersey

Special Guest Artist
Rufus Reid - Composer and Bass Player

Featured Soloists
Amanda Kam Winner of the 2012 - 2013 Youth Soloist Competition
And
The RCB Horn Quartet

Also presenting the Fifth Annual Side-by-Side Concert
with the finest High School musicians from the area

Prelude Concert
West Milford High School Wind Ensemble
Dr. Brian McLaughlin, Director

Program Highlights
Samurai - Nigel Clarke
Variations On a Korean Folk Song - John Barnes Chance
Joy in the Oasis - Rufus Reid
Nitro - Frank Ticheli
Concerto For Four Horns - Carl Heinrich Hubler

This concert is proudly sponsored by Konica Minolta Business Solutions, U.S.A., Inc.