Friday, August 31, 2012

Current Christmas Season • Fall 2012

American Portrait, An • Playing only From 62 to the End
Away in a Manger (Flow Gently Sweet Afton)
Catalonian Christmas Carol • http://www.enpmusic.com/sound/CB11206.mp3
Child is Born, A
Christmas Curtain Raiser • Start at 1'15" of video •  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwMwzjhcNiY
Christmas on Broadway • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5XIjfmrh_U
Glasgow Sketches • First Movement Only •  http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Glasgow-Sketches/5546071
On a Winter's Night • it stops at about bar 60 • http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/On-a-Winter-s-Night/2998401
Over the River
Sing Along With Santa • There are lots of cuts, but you'll get the idea • http://www.jwpepper.com/10050097.item
Sleigh's A' Comin'
Three Christmas Carols • 1st & 2nd Movements • Scroll down to "Audio Samples 1 and 2" • http://www.eastcoastmusic.com/Three-Christmas-Carols-p/yl81-cb28130.htm
Welcome Yule! • (This one takes a while!) • http://www.jwpepper.com/10279561.item
Winter Frolic
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

LCB Performs at Pos-Abilities 2-4 Relay

An article that appeared in the Tuesday, July 17,  2012 issue of the Langley Advance
A new world record for electric vehicle relays!

Below:  Rob van den Broek, clarinet player with the Langley Concert Band!
Sheila (trumpet player) Simpson's grandson, Brody, enjoying the festivities.
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Year-End Concert

Langley Concert Band year-end concert, Spring Medley, was held on June 11th at Brookswood Theatre.  It featured music of ABBA, the Beatles, some Dixieland, and many other delightful tunes.

“The Paint Stripper”

By Bernie Major

24” x 24” framed

Oil on Canvas

Estimated
retail value:

$ 2,000.
Bernie Major http://www.bernardmajor.com/, a long-time tenor saxophone player in the Langley Concert Band, raffled his painting "The Paint Stripper" to raise funds for the Matthew David Johnston Memorial Scholarship at Langley Community Music School http://www.langleymusic.com/.  Over seven hundred dollars was raised for the cause and Mary Leake, a bass clarinetist in the band, was the lucky recipient of the painting.  Thank you, Bernie . . . and congratulations Mary! 
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Ladner Bandfest

In early June, Langley Concert Band performed at the eighth annual Ladner Bandfest http://ladnerbandfest.org/ to the delight of many concert goers.
  
Bill Masse (tuba), Kathy Masse (alto saxophone)
 and Rae Linton (baritone saxophone) kickin' back before our set!
Hosted by Delta Music Makers http://www.deltamusicmakers.org/, this two-day event had twenty-one groups performing.  Thankfully the weather gods cooperated and audiences, complete with lawn chairs, picnic baskets and smiling faces, enjoyed a glorious weekend of outstanding music and lovely weather!
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Band Trip to Merritt

At the end of May 2012, the Langley Concert Band, directed by Brenda Wilson, had the opportunity to travel to Merritt to play a joint concert in Merritt Rotary Park Bandstand with the Nicola Valley Community Band, lead by director Colin Kerridge.

 Twenty-one members of the band were able to make the trip and enjoy the hospitality of the Nicola Valley members, which included a fascinating tour of Nicola Valley.  One of their band members, Steve Rose, supplied and drove our tour bus.

Band members on the steps of the historic Quilchena Hotel.

 We lunched at his family’s historic Quilchena Hotel, which is celebrating its hundreth anniversary this year, http://www.quilchena.com/.  We also visited the family’s homestead ranch and the Laurie Guichon Memorial Grassland Interpretive Site http://www.members.shaw.ca/swawrykow/02grass2.htm.

 We look forward to hosting the Nicola Valley Community Band next spring, sharing with them the sights and sounds (and wineries) of Langley.  Their visit, on the last weekend of May 2013, will culminate in a joint concert.
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Monday, June 11, 2012

Spring Medley • “Broadway to Britain” Program


Monday, June 11, 2012, Brookswood Theatre, Langley, B.C.

Ghost Riders in the Sky                                 

Fantasy on a Mountain Song                       

Highlights from “West Side Story
I Feel Pretty, Maria, Tonight

Theme from Spiderman                           

Abba on Broadway
Overture/Prologue, I Have a Dream, Mamma Mia, S.O.S.
Knowing Me, Knowing You, The Winner Takes it All, Dancing Queen

Prelude and Little Fugue                             

Just a Closer Walk With Thee              
Dixieland solos by Shane Clarke • Trumpet, Joe Schult • Trombone
Cheryl Garrett, Mary Lou Riederer • Clarinet, Dan Thiele • Tenor Saxophone
A-Roving (Sea Song Medley)
The Bold Fisherman, A-Roving, The Mermaid

Linden Lea

Welsh Folk Suite             
Jenny Jones, All Through the Night, Men of Harlech

Themes from First Suite in Eb                     
  1.  Chaconne     2.  March
The Rowan Tree                                   

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band  
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds • Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band • When I’m Sixty-Four
She’s Leaving Home • With a Little Help from My Friends • Sgt. Pepper’s
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