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Wednesday, January 10, 2024

WeStar 2024 Preview Videos

WeStar Music has released two promotional videos, featuring the Concord Band!

Tickets are now available.

See you on January 20th at Cary Memorial Hall!

Friday, April 8, 2022

Spring Pops!

Saturday, April 9, 2022 • 8:00 PM
Performing Arts Center at 51 Walden
Concord, Massachusetts

The Concord Band

James O'Dell, Music Director
Roger Cichy, Guest Conductor
Cindy Scott, Guest Artist
Gray Sargent, Guest Artist

Watch Live Saturday April 9, 8:00 pm

Program

The Concord Band
James O'Dell conducting
Strike Up The Band	George and Ira Gershwin arr. Leonard Moss
Irving Berlin's Songs For America	Irving Berlin arr. James Swearingen
The Diamond Baton	Roger Daniel Cichy
In honor of Daniel S. Diamond for his service to The Concord Band
Live Premiere, conducted by the composer
The Lords of Greenwich	Robert Sheldon
Sinatra in Concert	arr. Jerry Nowak

Intermission

CB Saxophone Quartet
David Southard, soprano; John Rabinowitz, alto; Judy Piermarini, tenor; Seychelle Dunn-Corbin, baritone
St. Louis Blues (1914)	W.C. Handy arr. Ken Abeling
Waltz for Debby (1956)	Bill Evans arr. Steve Piermarini
Nina Never Knew (1952)	Louis Alter & Milton Drake arr. Steve Piermarini
"Swing" from Diffusion for Saxophone Quartet (2006)	Gordon Goodwin

The Concord Band
*Featuring Cindy Scott, jazz vocalist
Italian Rhapsody	Julie Giroux
S’Wonderful*	George and Ira Gershwin arr. Warren Barker
Cry Me A River*	Arthur Hamilton arr. Bert van Cruchten
Night and Day*	Cole Porter arr. William McManus

Intermission

Cindy Scott–Gray Sargent Duo
Selections to be announced from stage

The Concord Band
They All Laughed*	George and Ira Gershwin arr. William McManus
New York State of Mind*	Billy Joel arr. Phil Whittall
Cheek to Cheek*	Irving Berlin arr. Jerry Seeco
Ukrainian National Anthem	Mykhailo Verbytsky arr. US Army Band
Stars and Stripes Forever	John Phillip Sousa

Thursday, June 3, 2021

Video Featurette: The Diamond Baton

In 2020, Roger Cichy wrote The Diamond Baton in recognition of Dan Diamond’s 50 years of service to The Concord Band. While the band has not yet had a chance to premiere the piece as a full ensemble due to the pandemic, Roger recorded most of the players individually and combined all the audio recordings. Ken Troup provided videos of players who recorded their parts at 51 Walden and Jean Patterson overlaid these videos with the audio track. The opening video clip features Dan Diamond playing a percussion solo at a previous concert. The video of our virtual creation of The Diamond Baton is now available on the Concord Band's You Tube Channel. The Concord Band has been thrilled to be involved in such an interesting virtual project.

Video Featurette of The Diamond Baton

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Virtual Quartet Performs Palestrina's “In Festo Transfigurationis Domini”

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Concord Band Virtual Quartet

After the Concord Band brass quintet virtual recording of Die Bänkelsängerlieder early in the pandemic, Concord Band members Peter Norton (trombone) and Cam Owen (horn) looked around for more music they could collaborate on virtually, and found a four-part hymn by the Italian Renaissance composer Giovanni da Palestrina: “In Festo Transfigurationis Domini”, arranged for three trombones and horn.

An interesting thing has happened during this pandemic year, as musicians turned from large-ensemble playing such as the band. During the fall and early spring, small ensembles have rehearsed and recorded outdoors. The winter months call for truly virtual groups, with individuals recording their parts indoors at home. With this situation has come the learning of new technology, and creative opportunities such as Peter taking on all three trombone parts. For this virtual performance we utilized an audio editor, Audacity, to bring together the different parts, and a video editor, Pinnacle Studio, to combine the finished audio, video recordings for each of the parts, background photos and other effects.

The far greater challenge than the technology, however, was working out the musical part of this project, getting away from the rigidity of the mechanics and finding a means to bring the give and take of an expressive performance, attending also to aspects of performance such as intonation and balance that come automatically and dynamically with a live performance. It took many iterations and a lot of experimentation and elbow grease!

On the music side, we take a lot of pleasure with the mixing of the four voices. This is a quiet work, rich in musical color and interest as parts come in and out. There are passages that start with the horn and dovetail to one of the trombone parts, which come through so nicely that there is only the change in timbre with the transition from horn to trombone. For us, the images forming the background should be rich in color, and soft—the grasses and early spring growth of our area.

Monday, January 4, 2021

Area 9 Quartet Performs Holst Second Suite

Area 9 Quartet (l. to r.): Sean Mix, Seychelle
Dunn, John Rabinowitz, Kangyi Liu

Some Concord Band members have been finding ways to rehearse in small ensembles while observing socially distant guidelines. Saxophonists John Rabinowitz (tenor) and Kangyi Liu (alto) recently performed the Holst Second Suite in F for Military Band outdoors with the Area 9 Saxophone Quartet. Sean Mix (soprano) and Seychelle Dunn (baritone) complete the quartet.

Area 9 also performed as guest artists with the Concord Band at our Spring Concert, "Festival de Música Española."

Second Suite in F (Op. 28, No. 2) by Gustav Holst

Area 9 Saxophone Quartet

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	I. March: Morris Dance, Swansea Town, Claudy Banks
	II. Song Without Words, "I'll Love My Love"
	III. Song of the Blacksmith
	IV. Fantasia on the Dargason

Monday, July 13, 2020

"Festival de Música Española" Concert Videos

Festival de Música Española
Saturday, March 7, 2020
The Concord Band
James O’Dell, Music Director
Area 9 Saxophone Quartet, Guest Artists

	Title	Composer/Arranger
	El Relicario	José Padilla
	Carmen Suite	Georges Bizet; arr. Guiraud, trans. Buckley
	Volver a la Montaña	Shelly Hanson
	La Mezquita de Córdoba	Julie Giroux
	Amparito Roca	Jaime Texidor; arr. Winter
	Fantasia Latina	Terry White
	Saxophone Quartet: Fandango	Aldemaro Romero
	Saxophone Quartet: Choro y Tango	Aldemaro Romero
	La Bamba de Vera Cruz	Terig Tucci; arr. Hunsberger

One of the Band's long-term projects is to create a comprehensive video archive of concert band literature. The archive documents our performances, helps us to improve musically, and provides a valuable online resource for band programming. You can explore performance videos hosted on our YouTube channel, ConcordBandMA.

The Performance Video Database concept has been created and led by percussionist and executive producer Dan Diamond, and video director Barry Mirrer, with generous technical assistance and resources provided by Concord-Carlisle TV. See feature articles: Performance Video Database, Video Production.

For this program, can play videos on this page or view program notes.

The complete Concord Band Performance Video Database is accessible through the Video Log tab at the top of each blog page.

Friday, June 5, 2020

Fantasia Latina Video

To provide you with a preview of forthcoming videos, here is the premiere of Terry White's Fantasia Latina, performed at our Winter Concert, Festival de Música Española, on March 7.

Fantasia Latina was commissioned by Band member Neil Tischler in celebration of his 48 years with the Concord Band. The composition is based on four Latin dance styles: tango, danzon, songo and samba. The extended introduction is intended to introduce idiomatic rhythms and motives that are common to the various styles, such as montuno and 2-3 clave. Unexpected rhythmic and harmonic twists are introduced into each style, intended to keep the performer and listener from settling into a “groove.” For example, there might be an extra measure in a phrase or a very brief harmonic modulation in harmony.

Saturday, May 23, 2020

Concord Band Brass Quintet Goes Virtual

Concord Band Virtual Brass Quintet

In mid-April, a few weeks after The Concord Band had been forced to suspend rehearsals due to the COVID-19 pandemic, trumpeter Cindy Blanchard began looking around for musicians to play with virtually. She recruited brass players from the Band, and soon a virtual brass quintet was formed. Rich Given joined Cindy on trumpet, Cam Owen on horn, Peter Norton on trombone, and Chi-Sun Chan on tuba.

The group chose Die Bänkelsängerlieder, a classic in brass quintet literature by an anonymous 17th century itinerant musician (a bänkelsänger or "bench singer"). Ken Troup, President of the Band, helped connect the quintet with Bryce Denney (former Band member and husband of Band horn player Kathryn Troup Denney), who provided the technical expertise needed make the separate recordings and combine them into one performance.

Bryce coached the group on how to prepare their individual recordings, and Rich and Sun provided practice tracks to get everyone playing at the same tempo and in the same style. After some test runs, Bryce combined and edited the audio and video to create the final version. This is a time-consuming process, and the quintet would like to thank Bryce for his time, dedication, and expertise! The Concord Band would like to thank them all for a splendid gift.

If you enjoy the quintet and the Concord Band, consider making a donation to the Band to keep it going during these uncertain times.

Thursday, October 31, 2019

"Carnival of the Animals" Concert Videos

Carnival of the Animals
Saturday, October 26, 2019
The Concord Band

James O’Dell, Music Director

	Title	Composer/Arranger
	Manatee Lyric Overture	Robert Sheldon
	Jurassic Park Soundtrack Highlights	John Williams; arr. Lavender
	Mother Goose March	John Philip Sousa
	Carnival of the Animals	Camille Saint-Saëns; arr. Brand
	Of Sailors and Whales	W. Francis McBeth
	The Walking Frog	Karl L. King
	"Hoe Down" from Rodeo	Aaron Copeland; trans. Rogers
	Tarantella	traditional; arr. Alfred Reed

One of the Band's long-term projects is to create a comprehensive video archive of concert band literature. The archive documents our performances, helps us to improve musically, and provides a valuable online resource for band programming. You can explore performance videos hosted on our YouTube channel, ConcordBandMA.

The Performance Video Database concept has been created and led by percussionist and executive producer Dan Diamond, and video director Barry Mirrer, with generous technical assistance and resources provided by Concord-Carlisle TV. See feature articles: Performance Video Database, Video Production.

The complete Concord Band Performance Video Database is accessible through a tab at the top of each blog page. You can play a video or view program notes by selecting links in the excerpt shown here.

Monday, September 23, 2019

Minute Man National Historical Parks 60th Anniversary Concert Video

As 2019 is also the 60th Anniversary of the Concord Band, the park and the band teamed up to present a concert of patriotic inspired music on the field overlooking the North Bridge. Ken Troup, President of the Concord Band said,

The Concord Band is honored to be playing at the Minute Man National Historical Park’s 60th anniversary celebration. The concert is a great way for the Band to transition from our own 60th anniversary to the new 2019-2020 season of band music in Concord. This anniversary concert is especially meaningful, because years ago the Concord Band played at the dedication of the Battle Road Visitors Center, and Thursday evenings during the summer beside the North Bridge Visitors Center. I’m happy we’re continuing the close relationship between the park and the Concord Band.

Our thanks to the Concord Band for their performance on this glorious fall day, and the Friends of Minute Man National Historical Park. I'd like to share a video of the Minute Man National Historical Parks 60th Anniversary Commemorative Program, held on the grounds overlooking historic North Bridge. The production is from our friends at Minuteman Media Network TV, Concord, MA. Our thanks to those who came out and recorded this special day for us.

Philip Lupsiewicz
Media and Communications
Minute Man National Historical Park

Monday, March 4, 2019

"Happy Anniversary!" Concert Videos

Happy Anniversary!
Saturday, March 2, 2019
The Concord Band

James O’Dell, Music Director
Andrew Boysen, Jr., Guest Conductor
Roger Cichy, Guest Conductor
Dr. William G. McManus, Music Director Emeritus

	Title	Composer/Arranger
	Emblazoned Joy	Roger Cichy
	Five Concord Diversions	James Curnow
	Flourish for Wind Band	R. Vaughan Williams
	Valdres	Johannes Hanssen
	Abracadabra	Frank Ticheli
	A Festival Prelude	Alfred Reed
	Diamond Jubilee Suite	Andrew Boysen, Jr.
	Auld Lang Syne	Traditional; arr. William Toland
	The Gladiator	John Philip Sousa

One of the Band's long-term projects is to create a comprehensive video archive of concert band literature. The archive documents our performances, helps us to improve musically, and provides a valuable online resource for band programming. You can explore performance videos hosted on our YouTube channel, ConcordBandMA.

The Performance Video Database concept has been created and led by percussionist and executive producer Dan Diamond, and video director Barry Mirrer, with generous technical assistance and resources provided by Concord-Carlisle TV. See feature articles: Performance Video Database, Video Production.

The complete Concord Band Performance Video Database is accessible through a tab at the top of each blog page. You can play a video or view program notes by selecting links in the excerpt shown here.

Saturday, October 27, 2018

"Celebrating Our Heritage" Concert Videos

Celebrating Our Heritage
Saturday, October 20, 2018
The Concord Band

James O’Dell, Music Director

Steven Barbas, Assistant Conductor

	Title	Composer/Arranger
	Proud Heritage	William Latham
	Diamond Fanfare	Samuel Hazo
	Overture to La Forza del Destino	Giuseppe Verdi; trans. R. Mark Rogers
	First Suite in E♭ for Military Band	Gustav Holst; ed. Frederick Fennell
	Concord	Clare Grundman
	North Bridge Portrait	Stephen Bulla; arr. Beeler
	Triumphant Entrance	William Barker
	On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss	David R. Holsinger
	Folk Dances	Dmitri Shostakovich; ed. H. Robert Reynolds

One of the Band's long-term projects is to create a comprehensive video archive of concert band literature. The archive documents our performances, helps us to improve musically, and provides a valuable online resource for band programming. You can explore performance videos hosted on our YouTube channel, ConcordBandMA.

The Performance Video Database concept has been created and led by percussionist and executive producer Dan Diamond, and video director Barry Mirrer, with generous technical assistance and resources provided by Concord-Carlisle TV. See feature articles: Performance Video Database, Video Production.

The complete Concord Band Performance Video Database is accessible through a tab at the top of each blog page. You can play a video or view program notes by selecting links in the excerpt shown here.

Friday, July 27, 2018

"Anniversaries" Concert Videos

Anniversaries
Saturday, March 3, 2018
The Concord Band

James O’Dell Music Director

Steven Barbas Assistant Conductor

Title	Composer/Arranger	Soloist
Overture to Candide	Leonard Bernstein; arr. Beeler
Funeral March of a Marionette	Charles Gounod; arr. Squires
Toccata Marziale	Ralph Vaugh Williams
A Trumpeter's Lullaby	Leroy Anderson; arr. Lang	Richard Given, trumpet
Three Dance Episodes from On The Town	Leonard Bernstein; arr. Stith
"Mars" from The Planets	Gustav Holst
"A Simple Song" from Mass	Leonard Berstein; arr. Sweeney
Petite Symphonie I. Adagio, Allegro	Charles Gounod
Irish Tune from County Derry	Percy Grainger
Shepherd's Hey: English Morris Dance	Percy Grainger

The Performance Video Database concept has been created and led by percussionist and executive producer Dan Diamond, and video director Barry Mirrer, with generous technical assistance and resources provided by Concord-Carlisle TV. See feature articles: Performance Video Database, Video Production.

The complete Concord Band Performance Video Database is accessible through a tab at the top of each blog page. You can play a video or view program notes by selecting links in the excerpt shown here.

Sunday, October 22, 2017

"Songs and Dances" Concert Videos