Upstate Concert Band Festival - May 25
Free Admission!
Start your summer with an extravaganza of concert music at the Upstate Concert Band Festival this Memorial Day weekend. Four concert bands representing three Upstate counties will perform at the Mauldin Cultural Center at 101 E. Butler Road, in Mauldin, on May 25th from 3 to 7 PM.
Bring your lawn chairs or blankets and settle in for traditional Americana, marches, show tunes, old favorites and new music from the Greenville Concert Band, the Spartanburg Community Band, the Easley Community Band, and the Greenville Textile Heritage Band. Food and drink will be available for purchase; admission is free.
Program:
2:40 The Quatrophonics Saxophone Quartet
Stan Widener, alto and soprano saxophone
Gary Livingston, alto and tenor saxophone
Dave Johnson, tenor saxophone
Jim Litzie, baritone saxophone
Pass Me The Jazz.................................................................................................................. arr. Dave Johnson
All The Things You Are............... Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, arr. Puerling, tr. Dave Johnson
Paquito De Habana........................................................................................................................... Rick Hirsch
Saxophone Cantabile................................................................................................................. William J. Levi
Waltz for Debby............................................................................................... Bill Evans, arr. Dave Johnson
A Night in Tunisia................................................................................. Dizzy Gillespie, arr. Dave Johnson
3:00 The Spartanburg Community Band
John Holloway, Conductor
The Star Spangled Banner................................................................................. arr. Floyd Werle
Armed Forces Salute.......................................................................................... arr. Bob Lowden
Cheerio March........................................................................................ Edwin Franko Goldman
“Cakewalk” from Suite of Old American Dances........................... Robert Russell Bennett
As All the Heavens Were a Bell................................................................................. Jay Bocook
Bond... James Bond.......................................................................................... arr. Stephen Bulla
Beach Boys Greatest Hits...................................... Wilson, Love, Asher/arr. Michael Brown
3:40 The Quatrophonics Saxophone Quartet
Almost Like Being In Love.................. Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, arr. Darmon Meader
Words............................................................................................. The Real Group, arr. Dave Johnson
The Pink Panther............................................................... Henry Mancini, arr. Arthur Frackenpohl
3:50 The Greenville Textile Heritage Band
Wayne Bagwell, Director
King Cotton ......................................................................................................... John P. Sousa
Cotton Top Rag............................................................................................................. Will Huff
Brown Jug Polka.................................................................................... arr. Rosario Bourbon
Consider Yourself........................................................... Lionel Bart, arr. John Warrington
Dotty Dimples............................................................................ G. H. Green, arr. W. L. Cahn
Dull Razor Blues.................................................................................................... G. H. Huffine
Flow Gently Sweet Afton.................................................................... arr. Rosario Bourbon
Take Me Out to the Ballgame................................................. Ed Tilzer, arr. Ed Morbach
Southern Railway March........................................................................................ W. C. Rehm
Bill Bailey.................................................................................................... arr. Zane Van Auken
4:30 The Greenville Concert Band Flute Quartet
Carri Burgess
Terry Davidson
Grante Shurtleff
Renee Blackwelder
Merry Go Round of Life.................................................... Joe Hisaishi, arr. Antonio Makridakis
How to Train Your Dragon........................................................ John Powell, arr. Adrian Wagner
4:40 Easley Community Band
Greg Day, Conductor
Azalea City March............................................................................................... R. Alan Carter
Centennial Ode.................................................................................................. Eliot Del Borgo
But Not for Me......................................... George and Ira Gershwin, arr Warren Barker
Heather Haithcock, vocal
Blue Moon........................................ Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, arr. Warren Barker
Heather Haithcock, vocal
Terry Reck, trumpet
Each Time You Tell Their Story..................................................................... Samuel R. Hazo
Joy Revisited............................................................................................................. Frank Ticheli
Seventy Six Trombones...... Meredith Wilson, arr. Leroy Anderson, ad. Jay Bocook
5:20 The Greenville Concert Band Clarinet Quintet
Stan Widener, Eb sopranino clarinet
Josh Recinos, Bb soprano clarinet
Jacqueline Olinger, Bb soprano clarinet
Richard Eaton, Bb soprano clarinet, Eb alto clarinet
Gary Livingston, Bb bass clarinet
Peasant March............................................................ Edvard Grieg, arr. Richard Wm. Eaton
Aragonaise from the suite “Carmen”............. Georges Bizet, arr. Sjoerd van der Veen
Funeral March of a Marionette...................... Charles Gounod, arr. Richard Wm. Eaton
5:30 Greenville Concert Band
Dr. Dan Turner, Music Director
The Sinfonians.......................................................................................... Clifton Williams
Fugue on Yankee Doodle................................................................. John Philip Sousa
The Beatles Medley............................................................................... arr. Andy Balent
South Pacific.................................... Richard Rodgers, arr. Robert Russell Bennett
Hymn to the Fallen................................................. John Williams, tr. Paul Lavender
The Liberty Bell March....................................................................... John Philip Sousa
6:30 Finale – Combined Bands
Conducted by Greg Day
America the Beautiful................................................................. arr. Carmen Dragon
This program is funded in part by the Metropolitan Arts Council which receives support from the City of Greenville, BMW Manufacturing Company, Michelin North America, Inc., SEW Eurodrive and the South Carolina Arts Commission,
and by Pecknel Music Company.