Dear fellow Hanoverians:<\/p>\n
Please join Hanover\u2019s instrumental music students next Thursday, May 15,
\nfor an evening of live music performed by the Hanover High School Concert
\nBand, Percussion Ensemble, Jazz Lab Band, and the Jazz Ensemble. <\/p>\n
Repertoire will include your favorite Broadway show tunes, film scores, and
\neven music inspired by epic novels. Novels? Band Director Mr. Ketchen
\nexplains…<\/p>\n
Johann de Meij wrote his Symphony No. 1 as a programmatic work based on the
\nthematic material drawn from a trilogy of books published in 1955, which
\nmany millions of fascinated readers have enjoyed: The Lord of The Rings, by
\nJ.R.R. Tolkien. This symphony in five movements was composed between 1984
\nand 1987, before Peter Jackson directed the films and shared his own
\ninterpretation, and in 1989 was awarded a first prize in the Sudler
\nInternational Wind Band Composition Competition. This work presents many
\nmore interesting and complex original musical leitmotifs which represent
\nmany characters and events from the original novel, and are much different
\nthan Howard Shore’s scores for Jackson’s films. <\/p>\n
In addition to the challenging undertaking of performing excerpts from
\nJohan de Meij’s Symphony No. 1, the Concert Band will also be performing
\nhighlights from Les Miserables, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ romantic and
\nrhapsodic interpretation of a Victorian psalm tune – Fantasia on a Theme By
\nThomas Tallis, and concluding the first half of the concert with our
\ncountry’s national march, The Stars and Stripes Forever!<\/p>\n
The Percussion Ensemble will mix things up with their Video Games Live
\nmedley, and the Jazz Lab Band will feature a couple jazz standards before
\nclosing their brief set with Buddy Rich’s famous Groovin’ Hard. <\/p>\n
The Jazz Ensemble will play the final set of the evening, which will
\ninclude the title theme to the most recent James Bond film, Skyfall, with a
\nspecial guest vocalist (they couldn’t afford Adele, but if you close your
\neyes, they swear you won’t know the difference!). They’ll also be
\nperforming a Miles Davis standard with Bobby McDermott sitting in for
\nMiles, and a groovy chart by Earth, Wind and Fire will round things out
\nbefore we close with the hard-driving shuffle of Chinoiserie from Duke
\nEllington’s Afro-Eurasian Eclipse. <\/p>\n
Trust me, this is one line up you won’t want to miss!<\/p>\n
Thank you for your support of these hard working and very talented young
\nmusicians; they hope to see you at the Instrumental POPS Concert next
\nThursday, May 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Robert J. Nyman Memorial Auditorium! For
\nmore information, please contact pketchen@hanoverschools.org .<\/p>\n
For “Around Town on the Web”,
\nCathy H-B<\/p>\n
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