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Archives of the Waco Community Band

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Waco Community Band performing at the 2002 4th of July H.E.B. Fireworks Extravaganza

Repertoire: Fingal's Cave - Felix Mendelssohn, arr. Winterbottom
Royal Fireworks Music - George Friderick. Handel
Blue Bells of Scotland – Arthur Pryor
  Guest Soloist: Brent Phillips, Assistant Professor of Trombone, Baylor University
Hebrides Suite - arranged by Clare Grundman
Irish Tune from County Derry - Percy Grainger
Shepherd's Hey - Percy Grainger

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Repertoire: Armenian Dances, Part 1 - Alfred Reed
Dance of the Tumblers - Nicholai RImsky-Korsakov/Balent
Waltz and Celebration from Billy the Kid - Aaron Copland
Four Dances from West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein/Polster
Shall We Dance? - Richard Rodgers, arr. Miyagawa

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Repertoire: Carillon from L' Arlesienne Suite #1 - George Bizet/Stout
Farandole from L' Arlesienne Suite #2 - George Bizet/Iasilli
Variants on a Medieval Tune - Norman Dello Joio
A Fireside Christmas - Sammy Nestico
A Chanukah Celebration - David Bobrowitz/Kenneth Soper
WCB Traditional Christmas Set:
   A Christmas Festival – arranged by Leroy Anderson
   Christmas "Pop" Sing-A-Long – arranged by James Ployhar
   Sleigh Ride – Leroy Anderson

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Repertoire: The Pines of Rome - Ottorino Respighi (arr. Duker)

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Repertoire: Midnight Sleighride – Prokofiev/Wallace; Greensleeves - Alfred Reed; Morning Alleluias for the Winter Solstice - Ron Nelson; Autumn Leaves - Johnny Mercer/Reed
Yosemite Autumn – Mark Camphouse; Easter Monday on the White House Lawn – John Philip Sousa; The Hounds of Spring – Alfred Reed; Dizzy Fingers - Zez Confrey/Custer (Daniel Wilhelm, xylophone soloist); Overture on Themes from "Porgy and Bess" – George Gershwin/Barnes

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Repertoire: Sound Off March – John Philip Sousa; Robinson's Grand Entree March - Karl King; Occident and Orient – Camille Saint-Saens; March to the Scaffold (From Symphony Fantastique) – Hector Berlioz; Entry March of the Boyars – Johan Halvorsen; March of the Mogul Emperors – Edward Elgar; Bombasto March - Orion Farrar; Children’s March: “Over the hills and far away” – Percy Grainger; Radetzky March – Johann Strauss/Reed; March from "1941" – John Williams; Stars and Stripes Forever - John Philip Sousa

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Repertoire: A Christmas Celebration – arranged by Kenny Bierschenk; Ukrainian Bell Carol – arranged by Phillip Sparke; The Night Before Christmas – Randol Alan Bass; Guest Narrator: Mr. Troy Tinney, Director of Fine Arts, Waco ISD; White Christmas – Irving Berlin, arranged by R. Russell  Bennett; Jingle Bells Forever – Robert W. Smith; WCB Traditional Christmas Set: A Christmas Festival – arranged by Leroy Anderson; Christmas Sing-A-Long – arranged by James Ployhar; Sleigh Ride – Leroy Anderson  

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Repertoire:  Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" – W. A. Mozart (born 1756); Symphony No. 3 “Slavyanskaya” – Boris Kozhevnikov (born 1906); Commando March – Samuel Barber (died 1981)

Guest Performers: MCC Wind Symphony

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July 4, 2006 performance: "Freedom Festival"

Concert: 9:00 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.       Fireworks: 10:00 p.m.

Repertoire: El Capitan – JP Sousa; Music from The Chronicles of Narnia – Gregson-Williams/Murtha; The Typewriter – Leroy Anderson/Werle (Jim Tountas, guest typist); The Black Horse Troop – JP Sousa; Dizzy Fingers - Zez Confry/Custer (Daniel Wilhelm, xylophone soloist); American Civil War Fantasy – Jerry Bilik (Barry Kraus, guest conductor); America, the Beautiful – arr. Carmen Dragon; Armed Forces Salute – arr. Bob Lowden;   "America" from West Side Story – Bernstein/Brown; Barnum and Bailey's Favorite - Karl L. King

NOTE: performance at Indian Springs Park in downtown Waco (rained out!)

Thursday, May 25, 2006 - "River Sounds Concert Series"

Repertoire: The Black Horse Troop - John P. Sousa; Overture to La Cambiale di Matrimonio – Rossini/Hudson; “Nessun Dorma” from Turandot – Puccini/Beringen; The Circus Bee - Henry Fillmore; "Schottische" and "Cakewalk"  from Suite of Old American Dances - Robert Russell Bennett; Barnum and Bailey's Favorite - Karl L. King; Highlights from Oliver! – arr. Ted Ricketts; The Stars and Stripes Forever - John P. Sousa

NOTE: performance at 8:00 p.m. at the Bosque River Stage 

Repertoire: "March - Seventeen Come Sunday" from English Folk Song Suite -Ralph Vaughan Williams; "The Earle of Oxford's Marche" from William Byrd Suite - Gordon Jacob; "Harkstowe Grange" and "The Lost Lady Found" from Lincolnshire Posy - Percy Grainger; "Andante expressivo" and "Allegro con brio" from Suite for Tuba - Don Haddad (Clayton Capps, tuba soloist); "Siciliano" from Little Suite No. 1 for Brass Band - Malcolm Arnold; "Schottische" and "Cakewalk" from Suite of Old American Dances - Robert Russell Bennett; "Gallop" from First Suite for Band - Alfred Reed; Symphonic Suite from "Far and Away" - John Williams, arranged by Paul Lavender

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Repertoire: The Florentiner - Julius Fucik; A Copland Portrait - arr. Clare Grundman; Rhapsody for Flute - Stephen Bulla (Pam Hyatt, flute soloist; June Campbell, guest conductor); The Black Horse Troop - John P. Sousa; Symphony 9, Mov. 1- "From the New World" - Antonin Dvorak; Marche des Parachutistes Belges - Pierre Leemans/Wiley; Slava! - Leonard Bernstein/Grundman

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Repertoire: Fanfare on "Adeste Fidelis" - Jim Colonna;  Patapan - Shelley Hansen; In the Bleak Midwinter - Holst/Bullock; Russian Christmas Music - Alfred Reed; In the Bleak Midwinter - Holst/Bullock; Good King Wenceslas - Tom Wallace; Christmas Festival - Leroy Anderson; Christmas "Pop" Sing-Along - James Ployhar; Sleigh Ride - Leroy Anderson

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Repertoire: Thunder and Blazes - Julius Fucik; In the Center Ring - Robert Sheldon; Circus Overture - William Schuman; Circus Bee - Henry Fillmore; Circus March - Charles Ives; Barnum and Bailey's Favorite - Karl L. King

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