CVSM COMMUNITY SYMPHONIC BAND CONCERT
Sunday, January 28, 3:00 pm
Chambersburg Area Senior High School auditorium
511 S. Sixth St., Chambersburg, PA
FREE ADMISSION
Made possible with generous support from Citicorp Credit Services
The CVSM Community Symphonic Band will be holding its annual winter concert at 3:00 pm on Sunday, January 28, at Chambersburg Area Senior High School auditorium. Admission to the concert is free, although donations to the non-profit Cumberland Valley School of Music are gratefully accepted.
The band includes musicians from all walks of life, including many professional musicians and educators, who enjoy playing challenging concert band repertoire, which runs the gamut from classical music and concert marches to jazz and musical theater.
Under the expert guidance of conductor David Wenerd, the eclectic and challenging program includes Rossini’s “Tancredi Overture,” “Bugatti Step” (featuring a jazz clarinet quartet), “Roses from the South Waltz” (by Johann Strauss), “Mazury Rhapsody” (a musical journey to Poland that includes polonaise, gallops, mazurkas, and polkas), “American Panorama” (featuring patriotic and folk themes), "A Chorus Line Spectacular” (music from the popular Broadway show), and marches by John Philip Sousa and Julius Fucik.
Band director David Wenerd holds a B.S. in Music Education from Temple University and a Masters in Music Education from Catholic University. He is chairman of the Chambersburg Area School District Music Department, director of the CVSM Concert Jazz Band and The Towne Singers, and an active trombonist. He has been the director of the CVSM Community Band since its inception in 1993.
The Cumberland Valley School of Music is a non-profit member of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, with nearly 600 students and 53 faculty members. The school teaches lessons and classes on all orchestral and band instruments as well as voice, piano, and guitar, and offers a wide variety of programs and ensembles for students of all ages, from toddlers to adults, at locations in Chambersburg, Waynesboro, and Mercersburg, PA and Hagerstown, MD. For more information call the Cumberland Valley School of Music at (717)-261-1220.
The CONCERT program
Triglav March Julius Fucik
A native of Austria-Hungary, Julius Fucik was a great composer of military marches. His most famous march is “Thunder and Blazes: Entry of the Gladiators” widely associated with American circuses. However it was composed in Sarajevo in 1903. Triglav is a slow stately march typical of many in the Eastern European style.
Tancredi Overture Gioacchino Rossini
From the composer of William Tell, The Italian Girl in Algiers, and the Barber of Seville, Rossini’s overtures employ his masterful melodies and the famous “Rossini crescendos.”
Three Diversions for Band Robert Washburn
Commissioned for Garwood Whaley’s Bishop Ireton-St. Mary’s Symphonic Wind Ensemble of Alexandria, Virginia in 1978, Washburn casts three short movements in a lighter vein. Serial compositional devices are employed in the three contrasting sections.
Bugatti Step Jaroslav Jezek
Jaroslav Jezek (1906-1942), was one of the founders of Czech jazz and popular music. Bugatti Step is a theater piece named after the automobile, the fastest at that time, Bugatti, in which legendary female car racer Eliska Junkova triumphed over all her male colleagues. This composition features a jazz clarinet quartet, Kelly Leitzel, Melissa Saylor, Rich Saul, and Carl Sponenberg.
Rosen aus dem Suden Waltz Roses from the South Johann Strauss
Actually, this composition is a collection of four waltzes seamlessly arranged into one composition.
Mazury Rhapsody Alfred Bosendorfer
Subtitled, A Journey to Poland, Mazury Rhapsody showcases folkloristic elements capturing a sense of life in Eastern Europe. The national dance of Poland, the polonaise, introduces the work, followed by gallops, mazurkas, and polkas.
American Panorama Sammy Nestico
It’s nice to be home! American Panorama features patriotic themes and American folk themes such as Hayride, Mississippi Gambler, Casey Jones, Southwest Heritage, and America, the Beautiful.
"A Chorus Line" Spectacular Marvin Hamlisch/Warren Barker
Warren Barker’s 1980 arrangement of memorable themes from A Chorus Line is always popular. The medley includes I Hope I Get It, At The Ballet, I Can Do That, Nothing, One, and What I Did for Love. AND, it’s back on Broadway!
The Free Lance March John Philip Sousa
The melodies for The Free Lance March came from Sousa's 1906 operetta "The Free Lance". The only march written by Sousa in 1906, "The Free Lance" is now considered a Sousa classic.