Dear fellow Hanoverians:
Please join Hanover’s instrumental music students next Thursday, May 15,
for an evening of live music performed by the Hanover High School Concert
Band, Percussion Ensemble, Jazz Lab Band, and the Jazz Ensemble.
Repertoire will include your favorite Broadway show tunes, film scores, and
even music inspired by epic novels. Novels? Band Director Mr. Ketchen
explains…
Johann de Meij wrote his Symphony No. 1 as a programmatic work based on the
thematic material drawn from a trilogy of books published in 1955, which
many millions of fascinated readers have enjoyed: The Lord of The Rings, by
J.R.R. Tolkien. This symphony in five movements was composed between 1984
and 1987, before Peter Jackson directed the films and shared his own
interpretation, and in 1989 was awarded a first prize in the Sudler
International Wind Band Composition Competition. This work presents many
more interesting and complex original musical leitmotifs which represent
many characters and events from the original novel, and are much different
than Howard Shore’s scores for Jackson’s films.
In addition to the challenging undertaking of performing excerpts from
Johan de Meij’s Symphony No. 1, the Concert Band will also be performing
highlights from Les Miserables, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ romantic and
rhapsodic interpretation of a Victorian psalm tune – Fantasia on a Theme By
Thomas Tallis, and concluding the first half of the concert with our
country’s national march, The Stars and Stripes Forever!
The Percussion Ensemble will mix things up with their Video Games Live
medley, and the Jazz Lab Band will feature a couple jazz standards before
closing their brief set with Buddy Rich’s famous Groovin’ Hard.
The Jazz Ensemble will play the final set of the evening, which will
include the title theme to the most recent James Bond film, Skyfall, with a
special guest vocalist (they couldn’t afford Adele, but if you close your
eyes, they swear you won’t know the difference!). They’ll also be
performing a Miles Davis standard with Bobby McDermott sitting in for
Miles, and a groovy chart by Earth, Wind and Fire will round things out
before we close with the hard-driving shuffle of Chinoiserie from Duke
Ellington’s Afro-Eurasian Eclipse.
Trust me, this is one line up you won’t want to miss!
Thank you for your support of these hard working and very talented young
musicians; they hope to see you at the Instrumental POPS Concert next
Thursday, May 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Robert J. Nyman Memorial Auditorium! For
more information, please contact pketchen@hanoverschools.org .
For “Around Town on the Web”,
Cathy H-B
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