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Handel in the Strand .........................Percy A

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Born and raised in Parry Sound, Ontario, Eleanor Daley received her Bachelor of Music Degree in Organ Perform

ance from

Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and holds diplomas in piano and organ from

the Royal Conservatory of M

usic, Toronto and Trinity College, England. She has been the Director of Music at Fairlaw

n Avenue United Church in Toronto, Ontario since 1982. During this tim

e, she has established a thriving choral program for w

hich much of her

music has been com

posed.

One of Canada’s most successful and gifted com

posers of choral music, Eleanor is recognized in choral circles the w

orld over. Her com

positions are distinguished by a rich imagination and lyricism

– enduring qualities that are imm

ediately appealing to singers and listeners alike. A prolific com

poser, Eleanor has a remarkable gift for m

elody, and her works

are most notable for their sensitive interw

eaving of text and music. She has over one hundred and fifty published

compositions and is com

missioned extensively throughout North Am

erica. Included in her unpublished choral works

are dozens of anthems, fifteen M

issae Breves, five pageants, and hundreds of descants, introits, and psalm settings.

Her compositions have been w

idely performed, recorded, and aired throughout North Am

erica, Great Britain, Europe, South Africa, and the Far East. Her w

orks are published by eleven publishing houses in Canada, the United States and Great Britain, including Oxford University Press (US and UK), Alliance M

usic Publications Inc., Hinshaw M

usic, Rhythmic

Trident Publishing, the Royal Canadian College of Organists, Kelman Hall, Santa Barbara M

usic Publishing Inc., Treble Clef Press and W

alton Music.

Rose Trilogy, comm

issioned by the ORIANA Wom

en’s Choir, received the ACCC National Choral Award for Outstanding

Choral Composition of the Year in 2004. Requiem

, recorded by the Amadeus Choir in 2000 on their CD, Songs of the

Spirit, received the same honour in 1994. The CD w

on the National Choral Award for Outstanding Recording in 2002.

Requiem received its Germ

an debut in Bayreuth in March, 2010, and has also been perform

ed extensively by choirs in Canada, the US and the UK.

Comm

issioned works for Canadian choirs include the Elm

er Iseler Singers, the Amadeus Choir, the Bach Children’s

Chorus, the Toronto Children’s Chorus, the Amabile Youth Singers, St. M

arys Children’s Choir, the Cantabile Singers of Kingston, the Savridi Singers, the Vancouver M

en’s Chorus and the Victoria Scholars, as well as num

erous other com

munity and church choirs throughout the country. Eleanor w

as comm

issioned by the American Choral Directors

Association (ACDA) to write a choral w

ork for the 2008 Regional Conventions - the first Canadian composer to have

received this honour. Other notable US comm

issions include the Master Chorale of Tam

pa Bay, Florida; Texas Wom

en’s University Choir; the Alliance W

orld Festival of Wom

en’s Singing in Salt Lake City, and the Texas Choral Directors Association. She has also w

ritten works for choirs in California, New

York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, W

est Virginia, M

aryland, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Kentucky, and M

issouri. European comm

issions include the Norbusang Festival in Bodo, Norw

ay, the Touch the Future Festival in Germany, KUESTA 2013 Choral

Festival in South Africa, and Oxford University Press in Cambridge, England. Eleanor w

as the first Composer-in-

Residence at the 2005 FESTIVAL 500 international choral festival in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

As well as being a highly respected choral clinician in Canada and the US, Eleanor is also a freelance accom

panist, and has had the privilege of accom

panying choirs under the baton of Lydia Adams, Jean Ashw

orth Bartle, the late Dr. Elm

er Iseler and the late Sir David Willcocks. She has been the accom

panist for the Bach Children’s Chorus under Linda Beaupre’s direction since 1995, and w

as the accompanist for the Am

adeus Choir under Lydia Adams’ direction from

1991-2006.

The CD, Canticle to the Spirit, was released to critical acclaim

in November 2000. It features tw

enty-three original com

positions sung by the choirs of Fairlawn Avenue. W

hat Sweeter M

usic, featuring twenty-one of Eleanor’s Christm

as choral com

positions was released in Novem

ber 2003. Magnificat Live!, featuring the M

agnificats of John Rutter and Jonathan W

illcocks (Canadian Premiere) and perform

ed by the Choir of Fairlawn Avenue, cham

ber orchestra and True North Brass w

as released in November 2009. Gloria, featuring the Canadian Prem

iere performance of M

ark Hayes’ “Gloria” and Christm

as choral works by Canadian, Am

erican, and British composers w

as released in 2012.

Keith B

rion - Cond

uctor of the Wind

Ensem

ble

Keith Brion, Music Director of his ow

n New Sousa Band, has appeared as a frequent guest conductor w

ith nearly all of Am

erica’s major sym

phony orchestras and professional bands. His New Sousa Band, begun in 1979, is a realization of

Mr. Brion’s dream

to reincarnate the Sousa Band and once again tour America’s tow

ns and cities.

He has been a frequent guest conductor of professional bands among w

hich are the Stockholm Sym

phonic Wind

Orchestra, New York City’s Goldm

an Band, The California Wind Orchestra, and the Allentow

n Band. He has also appeared w

ith most of the m

ajor service bands, including the U.S. Marine Band, Arm

y Field Band, Army Band, Coast

Guard Band and the U.S. Army Band of Europe in Heidelberg, Germ

any. University and school band appearances have included Florida State, M

ichigan State, University of Texas, Ohio State, Kentucky and the University of Iowa, plus the

National Music Cam

p at Interlochen.

In addition to leading the New Sousa Band, M

r. Brion maintains an active career as an orchestra conductor, presenting

his popular Sousa revival concerts with alm

ost all of America’s sym

phony orchestras, including the Boston Pops, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the St. Louis, Dallas, M

ilwaukee sym

phonies. His overseas orchestral engagements have

included the London Concert Orchestra and the Gothenburg Symphony.

Keith Brion is a former Director of Bands at Yale University, w

here he led the Yale Band in concerts at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and in an all-Ives program

program at Am

sterdam’s Concertgebouw

. Prior to coming to Yale,

he was the founder and m

usic director of the North Jersey Wind Sym

phony and a long-time band educator and m

usic supervisor in the New

Jersey public schools.

He has published many editions for band, including the m

usic of Charles Ives, Percy Grainger, John Philip Sousa, and D.W

. Reeves, and is the author of numerous articles. He has published a series of Sousa publications in collaboration

with Loras Schissel, curator of the Sousa collection at the Library of Congress. These Sousa editions are published by

Willow

Blossom M

usic and distributed by the CL. Barnhouse Co. A new Sousa series: “New

Sousa Band Editions”, is being published by Southern M

usic Co. of San Antonio.

Mr. Brion is currently recording the com

plete wind m

usic of John Philip Sousa for Naxos records with London’s Royal

Artillery Band. Eight volumes of a projected 16 CD series have been recorded.

Richard

L. Blatti - C

onductor of the S

ymp

honic Band

Following a year as interim

director, Professor Richard Blatti was nam

ed director of The Ohio State University School of M

usic on July 1, 2011, and served in this capacity until August 2016. After having taught for 42 years – 37 at the collegiate level w

ith the last 27 at Ohio State, he then served as chief executive and academic officer for an

internationally recognized faculty and a school ranked 11th among public colleges and universities. Prior to this

appointment, he w

as area head of Conducting and Ensembles, supervising all aspects of the conducting curricula

and the administration of all university ensem

bles. Throughout his Ohio State tenure, Professor Blatti personally taught conducting at all levels, and the ensem

bles under his direction performed at national conferences, recorded for

international recording labels, and toured extensively.

For his interpretation of their works, Blatti has earned the praise of m

any composers, including Gunther Schuller,

Warren Benson, M

ichael Daugherty, Augusta Read Thomas, Jennifer Higdon, Eric W

hitacre, Steven Bryant, David Gillingham

, Carter Pann, Frank Ticheli, John Mackey, Daniel Bukvich and Roger Cichy. Professor Blatti has tw

ice received The Ohio State University School of M

usic Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2007 he w

as presented with

the Alumni Aw

ard for Distinguished Teaching by the president of the university. He has served on the Executive Board of the Ohio State Academ

y of Teaching, on the Board of Trustees for the Columbus Sym

phony Orchestra, and as president of the Ohio Association of M

usic Schools.

As guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator, Blatti has been invited to forty states, five Canadian provinces, and six other countries, including the United Kingdom

, The Netherlands, France, Belgium, Australia and China. Prior to his

appointment at Ohio State, Professor Blatti w

as director of Instrumental M

usic at Albion College in Michigan for ten

years, where he w

as twice selected the Outstanding Faculty M

ember of the Year, and w

as awarded tw

o grants in support of his research on rehearsal techniques and conducting pedagogy. Blatti also served as Director of Bands and M

usic Department Chair at York Com

munity High School in Elm

hurst, Illinois.

A student of legendary conductor John Paynter, Blatti earned both the Bachelor of Music Education and the M

aster of M

usic degrees from Northw

estern University and has done post-graduate work in conducting at M

ichigan State University. He serves as a director of the John P. Paynter Foundation, as Conductor Laureate of the Heisey W

ind Ensem

ble, and is a mem

ber of the American Bandm

asters Association, CBDNA, MENC, OM

EA, Pi Kappa Lambda,

Phi Beta Mu, Om

icron Delta Kappa, Tau Beta Sigma and Phi M

u Alpha Sinfonia. He is in constant demand as a guest

conductor, clinician, author and lecturer.

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SO Frondens Virga is based on a chant by Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), a German Abbess, composer, writer, philosopher, mystic, and visionary. Composer Drew Collins has used the chant as the unifying structure, and has incorporated elements of organum, Medieval cadential figures and canonic and fugal technique. The piece was written for the Jenny Lind Singers of Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, and was premiered in February, 2003 at the college’s Centennial Hall.

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LFelix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) is often considered to be the greatest child prodigy after Mozart, and he was a prolific composer, both as a child and an adult. Many of his compositions were influenced by the Classical and Baroque eras (in particular, the works of J.S. Bach). His Children Blessed of the Lord, arranged by Minneapolis based composer and conductor Nancy Grundahl (b. 1946) hearkens more to the Romantic era in which he lived.

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LEYThe Gate of the Year was composed for the Salt Lake City 2004 Alliance World Festival of Women’s Singing, and had its premiere performance at the Mormon Tabernacle on Temple Square in February of that year. The choir featured 429 women from nine US choirs, one Canadian ensemble, and a choir from Seoul, South Korea. The Gate of the Year, a preamble to the poem God Knows by British poet Minnie Louise Haskins (1875-1957) came to prominence when it was quoted by King George VI in his Christmas message of 1939.

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SI’se the B’y by Canadian composer John Govedas (1950-2005) is a rollicking arrangement of a Newfoundland folk song. John had tremendous facility as a pianist, and as with many of his compositions, this piece is characterized by a brilliant and challenging piano accompaniment, and clever, well written vocal lines that often convey his slightly eccentric and unique sense of humour.

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Watane by Canadian composer Mark Sirett (b. 1952) is inspired by aboriginal culture. Non-traditional vocal sounds, bird calls, fragments of Iroquois chants, and varied percussion instruments combine to create a soundscape evoking the atmosphere of the Eastern Woodlands.

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DKaana Kameme, Zulu Mama and Dinasi Ponono are based on traditional African melodies, originally arranged for SATB choir by Scott Leithead, founder and Artistic Director of the Kokopelli Choir Association, based in Edmonton, Alberta. Scott has a passion for music from southern Africa, and has been invited to work with choirs in South Africa and Namibia on numerous occasions. The treble versions of Kaana Kameme and Dinasi Ponono were arranged by Linda Beaupré, Artistic Director of the Bach Children’s Chorus of Scarborough, Ontario.

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Things That Never Die was commissioned by the Tennessee Music Education Association for the 2013 Tennessee All State Women’s Chorale. This powerful text by the great British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) speaks of hope, truth, love, justice, kindness, and compassion for one another, and reminds us that “these things shall never die.”

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“The Suite Française was original written for band. For a long time I have had the idea of writing a composition fit for high school purposes and this was the result. In the bands, orchestras and choirs of American high schools and universities where the youth of the nation be found, it is obvious they need music of their time, not too difficult to perform, but, nevertheless keeping the characteristic idiom of the composer.

The five parts of this Suite are named after French Provinces, the very ones in which the American and Allied armies fought together with the French underground for the liberation of my country: Normandy, Brittany, Ile-de -France (of which Paris is the center), Alsace-Lorraine, and Provence.

I used some folk tunes of these Provinces. I wanted the young Americans to hear the popular melodies of those parts of France where their fathers and brothers fought to defeat the German invaders, who in less than seventy years have brought war, destruction, cruelty, torture and murder, three times, to the peaceful and democratic people of France.” Darius Milhaud (Mills College CA 1946)

Milhaud’s “suite” goes far beyond the picturesque folk tunes that populate his post- World War II score. Each of the movements portrays the wide variety of emotions associated with that great conflict. The first, “Normandie” where the invasion took place, is portrayed as a bustling military march, the second, Brittany, a bleak, cold reminder of the sadness of war, third, “Il-de-France” (Paris), a jubilant scene of liberation, the fourth, “Alsace Lorraine” where the final battles were fought, is set as a powerful hymn (along with painful remembrances of the horrors of war) and finally “Provence,” (Milhaud’s birth home), a joyous victory dance. —

Keith Brion

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In 1901, the Sousa Band was engaged to play a series of concerts at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. As was his practice, Sousa set about composing a march to feature at the concerts.

Inspirations for Sousa’s compositions came at unexpected times. Being a man on the move for most of his life, it is not surprising that many of his works were composed “en route” on a train to another concert. Such was the case for “The Invincible Eagle.” In an interview with the New York Tribune, Sousa’s soprano soloist, Blanche Duffield described Sousa sketching for this march:

“It was (on) a train between Buffalo and New York. Outside the coach the lights of towns along the route flashed by like ghosts fluttering at the window panes. The night was dark and the few stars above twinkled fitfully. Mr. Sousa sat in his chair in the dimly lit Pullman. At the further end of the car a porter diligently brushed cushions. At intervals the engine whistled as if in pain.Suddenly and without previous warning Mr. Sousa began to describe circles in the air with a pencil, jerking back and forth in his seat meanwhile. Gradually the circumference of his pencil’s arcs diminished and Mr. Sousa drew a notebook from his pocket, still humming to himself.Notebook and pencil met. Breves and semi-breves appeared on the page’s virgin surface. Quarter notes and sixteenth notes followed in orderly array. Meanwhile Mr. Sousa furrowed his brow and from his pursed lips came a stirring air--rather a martial blare, as if hidden trombones, tubas and saxophones were striving to gain utterance.Now Mr. Sousa’s pencil traveled faster and faster, and page after page of the notebook were turned back, each filled with martial bars. (I) looked on from over the top of a magazine and listened with enthusiasm as Mr. Sousa’s famous march, “The Invincible Eagle”, took form.I tried to attract Mr. Sousa’s attention while he was supplying the accompaniment of flutes, oboes, bassoons and piccolos, but it was not until he had picked out the march on a violin on his fingers, put his notebook in his pocket, his (imaginary) violin in his case and his cigar back in his mouth that he finally turned toward me and casually remarked that it was a very dark night outside.”

Sousa was very careful about selecting good titles for his marches, and “The Invincible Eagle” was no exception. Sousa had considered naming his new march “The Spirit of Niagara” in recognition of the exposition. However, he finally settled upon another name, one that more truly expressed his feelings for his beloved country, and thus “The Invincible Eagle” was born. The first performance was given at Willow Grove Park, near Philadelphia on Decoration Day, 1901.

. . . In a rare moment, soon after its premier, Sousa described the conviction and artistic spirit that compelled him to compose this great march:

“The new march, ‘The Invincible Eagle’, is what I call one of my sunshine marches. Some of my heavy marches are intended to convey the impression of the stir and strife of warfare, but “The Invincible Eagle” shows the military spirit at its lightest and brightest--the parade spirit, with the bravery of uniform, the sheen of silken stands, and the gleam of polished steel and all its other picturesque features.”

Program note by Paul E. Bierley from “The Works of John Philip Sousa.”This edition in Sousa’s own concert performance style, was created by Keith Brion and Loras Schissel.

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Grainger writes: “The title was originally Clog Dance, but my dear friend William Rathbone (to whom the piece is dedicated) suggested the title Handel in the Strand, because the music seemed to reflect both Handel and English Musical comedy.” (The “Strand”- a street in London-is the home of London music comedy).“It was as if old Handel was careening down the Strand to the strains of modern English popular music.”

This band setting was created in 1999 by Keith Brion and Loras Schissel. Sources included a number of previous versions, including Sousa’s arrangement for his band as well as a variety of Grainger’s own orchestral settings, including his 1950 setting for Leopold Stokowski.

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After Grainger died in the early 60’s, the voluminous music collection in his White Plains basement was transferred to the Upsala College library in East Orange. Since I lived in nearby West Caldwell, Daniel Leeson, a friend of mine and also a friend of Ella Grainger, suggested to her that I be put in charge of these treasures. To my considerable astonishment the collection turned out to include almost twenty unpublished band pieces!* One by one (including the beautiful setting of the Goosens’ Folk-Tune), I gradually began playing these scores with my James Caldwell HS Band. Each was an amazing revelation. Today, with the exception of Folk Tune (whose rights remain tied up with the Goosens family), nearly all of Grainger’s band manuscripts have been published. The remaining Folk-Tune arrangement is was based on Goosen’s sophisticated harmonization but in a setting blessed with Percy’s magical orchestration. In July 1942, Grainger created this wind arrangement for the band at Interlochen. That August, he rendered the final in Springfield MO, where Percy and Ella Grainger, both ardent pacifists had moved from White Plains NY to escape the possibility of German or Japanese bombing on either coast. Folk Tune is nearly the last of Percy’s many “gems” to remain unpublished. In many ways it rivals his famous setting of Irish Tune from County Derry. KB*In the intervening years the Upsala College Grainger collection has all been transferred to the Grainger Museum in Melbourne

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SOver the years Charles Ive’s setting of the Yale drinking song Here’s to Good Old Yale (also known as Bingo and March No. 6) saw a number of iterations including an early Ives setting for piano. Later in his life, as Ive’s compositions had become increasingly imaginative, he sat down at the piano and along his own wildly exuberant singing recorded a fanciful piano version. Ive’s home recording was released in 1974 as part of a Columbia records LP. In 2003 the recording became a partial inspiration for composer Jonathan Elkus who created this inventive modern band setting of Here’s to Good ‘Ol Yale for an all-Ives recording by the US Marine Band. KBElkus writes: March No. 6 is “modeled in part after Sousa’s march-galop Manhattan Beach. In its present adaptation for concert band, Ive’s cantus-discantus treatment of Here’s to Good Old Yale is introduced in the second strain, while the trio overlays the Battle Chapel chimes (borrowed from Ive’s choral song The Bells of Yale). The adaptation carries over some of Ive’s left-hand “piano drumming,” the bugler’s tag, and the Yale bulldog’s trilled snarls from Ive’s spirited piano rendition.

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The band leadership which was provided by A.A. Harding at the University of Illinois and by William D. Revelli at the University of Michigan was supplied at Northwestern University by Glenn C. Bainum, to whom King dedicated this march. Bainum was born at Olney, Illinois, in 1888. When he was ten his family moved to Paxton, Illinois, where he remained until beginning his first two years at the University of Illinois in 1905. Bainum was Harding’s assistant for a time, and he also taught at Southern Illinois Normal Univeristy. Throughout his career and retirement, Bainum continued to produce a series of outstanding arrangements and transcriptions for concert band.

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CREAccording to the composer…“October is my favorite month. Something about the crisp autumn air and the subtle change in light always make me a little sentimental, and as I started t sketch I felt that same quiet beauty in the writing. The simple, pastoral melodies and subsequent harmonies are inspired by the great English Romantics (Vaughn Williams, Elgar) as I felt that this style was also perfectly suited to capture the natural pastoral soul of the season. I’m quite happy with the end result, especially because I feel there just isn’t enough lush, beautiful music written for winds. October was premiered on May 14th, 2000, and is dedicated to Brian Anderson, the man who brought it all together.

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An Epinicion is an ancient song of victory sung at the conclusion of a triumphant battle. The Greeks would sing it as they walked through the battlefield sorting the wounded from the dead. This particular Epinicion is the composer’s personal abstraction of war in general and the Vietnam War in particular. Through the use of air blown through the instruments, dense tone clusters, unmetered cadenzas, and, in particular, a long aleatoric 12-tone section, Paulson attempts to portray the inevitable insanity, despair, and absolute horror of war.

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MCommissioned by the Apple Valley High School Bands in Apple Valley, Minnesota, this piece is exhilarating! It begins with a feeling of reticence and apprehension, and works through many emotions, finally growing into celebration with joyful and dramatic exuberance. What better way to celebrate than with our hearts and voices. – David Gillingham

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This work is the second Robert Jager work commissioned by the United States Marine Band. (The first being Tableau) Based on “The Marines’ Hymn,” Esprit De Corps is a kind of fantasy-march, as well as a tribute to the United States Marine Band. It is also the composer’s salute to the Marine Corps in general. Full of energy and drama, the composition has its solemn moments and its lighter moments (for example, the quasi-waltz in the middle of the piece). While Esprit De Corps is a tribute to the Marine Band, it is also a display piece for any fine group of band musicians.

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1985..............................................Robert Zellner1986..................................................D

on Wilcox

1987............................................Francis McBeth

1988.....................................Richard Castiglione1989...........................................M

anuel Alvarez

1990........................................Eugene Corporon1991.........................................W

illiam Sylvester

1992................................................Robert Jager1993..........................................Stanley D

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illam Berz

1996...................................................Jack Stamp

1997..............................................Michael V

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illiam Berz

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ard Teleky2008..................................................Ray Cram

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2010..........................................Thomas G

. Leslie2011..........................................D

ennis W. Fisher

2012................................Mark D

avis Scatterday2013.......................................Thom

as McCauley

2014..............................................Richard Clarey2015........................................M

ichael Votta, Jr.

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1981........................................Donald S. G

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1986..................................................Emery Fears

1987............................................Warren M

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alter Chesnut1989................................................Frank W

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nthony Maiello

1991..........................................Rodney Winther

1992......................................Mallory Thom

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as Dvorak

1995.................................................Bruce Yurko

1996...............................................George Parks

1997..........................................Robert W. Sm

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2015..............................................Evan Feldman

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The New

Jersey All-State W

ind Ensemble and Sym

phonic Band are currently working on a

project to complete the historical background of the ensem

bles. Anyone w

ith information

about the missing years above should contact M

r. Paul Oster, A

ll-State Band Historian,

at osterpaul@hotm

ail.com.

A N

OT

E O

F TH

AN

KS

Performance groups are a critical part of a student’s m

usical growth. These A

ll-State ensem

bles would not exist w

ithout the dedication of your high school directors who

tirelessly volunteer their time to prepare their students for the A

ll-State ensemble

experience. The dedication of this team of m

usic educators who w

orked to make

today happen must be recognized and celebrated. O

ur heartfelt thanks to each of you for the contribution you have m

ade to the success of this performance.

Thanks also to all parents and extended families for supporting your children and their

musical journeys; from

traveling and financing lessons, rehearsals and concerts, to

being a significant and vital advocate of their m

usic education. They make our w

orld a better place through their m

usic.

A m

illion thanks to the musicians you w

ill hear today. Off stage, they are your

children, your friends and your family. O

n stage, they represent the very best of today’s teenagers and a bright light for tom

orrow’s future. A

gift to us all. Enjoy their perform

ance.

The mem

bers of the New

Jersey Music Educators A

ssociation express their appreciation and gratitude to all those w

ho have given of their time and talent to m

ake this project possible. W

e acknowledge the sincere cooperation of students, parents, teachers,

principals, superintendents and Boards of Education of the schools represented in this program

. Only through their loyal support could this educational opportunity be

realized for so many students. W

e are especially indebted to our partner, New

Jersey Perform

ing Arts Center.