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Performance Calendar

Repertoire

Students and Parents

CHS Music Boosters

CHS Music Department

Director of Instrumental Music:

Ned F. Smith

Contacts:

NSmith@coventryct.org

CoventryMusicBoosters@gmail.com

Performance Calendar

2011-2012 Performance Schedule

(Dates Tentative until confirmed in Fall 2011)

 

Annual Combined Winter Concert - December 15, 2011

CHS Valentine's Danceband - February 10, 2012

Performance Tour, Cleveland, OH - April 26-29 (Pending Approval)

CHS Band Spring Concert - May 4, 2012

CHS Band Final Concert - June 1, 2012

 

 

Spring 2005

 

 

Band Repertoire: A Sampling of Repertoire Performed by the CHS Bands

  • Sleigh Ride ~ Leroy Anderson
  • Come, Sweet Death ~ J. S. Bach/Reed
  • Prelude and Fugue in Bb Major ~ J.S. Bach/Moehlmann
  • Chant Rituals ~ Elliot del Borgo
  • Hands Up! ~ Andrew Boysen Jr.
  • Voodoo ~ Daniel Bukvich
  • Song of Lir ~ Fergal Carroll
  • Mazama ~ Jay Chattaway
  • Crystals ~ Thomas Duffy
  • Fantasy for Band ~ Frank Erickson
  • Tocatta for Band ~ Frank Erickson
  • Sussex Mummer's Christmas Carol ~ Percy A. Grainger
  • Country Gardens ~ Percy A. Grainger
  • Irish Tune from County Derry/Sheperd's Hey! ~ Percy A. Grainger
  • Kentucky 1800 ~ Clare Grundman
  • Chorus Angelorum ~ Samuel Hazo
  • On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss ~ David Holsinger
  • Havendance ~ David Holsinger
  • Prarie Dances ~ David Holsinger
  • First Suite in Eb ~ Gustav Holst
  • Second Suite in F ~ Gustav Holst
  • Scenes from the Louvre ~ Norman Dello Joio
  • Coast Guard's March ~ Karl King
  • Royal Coronation Dances ~ Bob Margolis
  • Espana Cani ~ Marquina/Longfield
  • Rollo Takes a Walk ~ David Maslanka
  • Festivo ~ Vaclav Nelhybel
  • Chorale ~ Vaclav Nelhybel
  • Courtly Airs and Dances ~ Ron Nelson
  • Rise of the Firebird ~ Steven Reinecke
  • Contre Qui, Rose ~ Lauridsen/H. Robert Reynolds
  • O Magnum Mysterium ~ Lauridsen/H. Robert Reynolds
  • In C ~ Terry Riley
  • George Washington Bicentennial ~ John Philip Sousa

  • Manhattan Beach March ~ John Philip Sousa
  • O Cool is the Valley ~ Vincent Persichetti
  • Pageant ~ Vincent Persichetti
  • Amazing Grace ~ Frank Tichelli
  • Cajun Folk Songs ~ Frank Tichelli
  • Joy Revisited ~ Frank Tichelli
  • Loch Lomond ~ Frank Tichelli
  • Shenandoah ~ Frank Tichelli
  • Sine Nomine ~ Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Flourish for Wind Band ~ Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • English Folk Song Suite ~ Ralph Vaughan Williams

Jazz Repertoire: Rep from jazz standards, contemporary selections, and "Danceband" performances.

Autumn Leave

Black Cow - Steely Dan

Blue Rondo a la Turk - Brubeck

Blue Train - Coltrane

Blues Brothers Review

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy – Raye/Prince

Can’t Help Falling in Love

Can’t Take That Away

Caravan - Ellington

Chameleon - Hancock

Cute - Neil Hefti

Dizzy Atmosphere

Do Wah Diddy – Barry/Greenwhich

Embraceable You - Gershwin

Family Guy (TV Theme)

Georgia On My Mind

Groovin' Hard - Menza

Haitian Fight Song - Mingus

Harlem Nocturne - Mantooth

In the Mood

It Don’t Mean a Thing

It's Only a Paper Moon

I Want to Hold Your Hand – Lennon/McCartney

Jump Jive n Wail – Louis Prima

Kokomo – Love/Melcher

La Bamba

Launching Pad - Ellington

Lean on Me - Withers

Manteca - Gillespie

My Favorite Things - arr CHS Jazz Ensemble (ala Coltrane)

My Girl – Smokey Robinson

New York, New York – Bernstein

Never No Lament - Ellington

A Night in Tunisia

Night Walk - Lopez

Olupaca - Ellington

Over the Rainbow – Harold Arlen

Paper Moon

Please Please Me – Lennon/McCartney

Rock-a-bye River - Ellington

Round Midnight - Monk

Shake Rattle and Roll – Charles Calhoun

Sing, Sing, Sing

Song for My Father - Horace Silver

Sophisticated Lady - Ellington

Soul Bossa Nova - Quincy Jones

Splanky - Neil Hefti
Stand By Me –  King/Leiber/Stroller

St. Thomas

Sweet Georgia Brown – Bernie/Pinkard/Casey

Tears in Heaven - Clapton

Tiger of San Pedro - LaBarbera
The Twist

Twist and Shout – Russell/Medley

Unchained Melody – Zaret/North

Uptown Girl – Billy Joe

The Way You Look Tonight - Kern arr. Shaw

What a Wonderful World – Weiss/Thiele

What is Hip? - Tower of Power

When the Saints Go Marching In

Woodchopper’s Ball

   
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