Music Director Emertius, Dr William G. McManus

Dr. William McManus
Music Director Emeritus

Dr. William McManus was Music Director of the Concord Band from 1995 to 2009. Upon his retirement as Music Director, he was named Music Director Emeritus. A graduate of the Boston Conservatory, with advanced degrees from Boston University, Dr. McManus was, until his retirement in 2001, Director of Fine and Performing Arts for the Belmont Public Schools. In 2004, he was appointed Associate Professor of Music Education at the College of Fine Arts at Boston University and was Chair of the Music Education Department until his retirement in June 2008.

The Massachusetts Music Educators Association awarded Dr. McManus the Lowell Mason Award and the Distinguished Service Award. He was also given the Conductor of the Year Award by the Massachusetts Instrumental Conductors Association. In March 2008, he received the Visionary Leadership Award, the most prestigious award given by the MMEA. In May of 2008, he was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Award by the faculty of the Boston University College of Fine Arts. In October, 2008, Dr. McManus received the Concord Band’s Lifetime Service Award.

Dr. McManus served as President of the MMEA from 1991 to 1993 and President of the Eastern Division of MENC: The National Association for Music Education from 1999 to 2001. He has been Conductor of the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble, the Framingham Concert Band, the 215th Army Band, and the United States Youth Wind Ensemble, and has been a guest conductor throughout the Eastern United States and Europe.

Since his retirement from Boston University, Dr. McManus has been living in Sandwich on Cape Cod where he continues to compose and arrange music for concert band and jazz ensemble. He also con- tinues to play jazz piano and saxophone, performing with several jazz bands in the Boston area.

2012 Fall Concert

A Tribute to William M. Toland

Saturday, October 27, 2012

The Concord Band 

James O’Dell, Music Director

Dr. William G. McManus, Music Director Emeritus

Program
Fanfare for a Festive Day	Roger Cichy
Pennyghael: Reflections of Scotland	William M. Toland
Welcome and introduction by Charles Learoyd,  Concord Band clarinetist (1975–present), Current Band President
Satiric Dances	Norman Dello Joio
Allegro pesante Adagio mesto Allegro spumante
Introduced by Dan Diamond, Concord Band percussionist (1970–present),  Board member (1971–present), former Band President
Eternal Father, Strong to Save	Claude T. Smith
Introduced by Chris Mudgett, Bedford High School Class of 1971,  Concord Band flutist (1975–present), former Board member and Band President
“Nimrod” from Enigma Variations	Edward Elgar; arr. Reed
Introduced by David Purinton, Concord Band clarinetist (1973–present)
Postcard	Frank Ticheli
Introduced by Keith Phinney, Bedford Director of Music (1956–1988)
Intermission
Proud Heritage	William Latham
Chester	William Schuman
Introduced by Mark Mudgett, Bedford High School Class of 1973,  Concord Band arranger (1974–1976), Concord Band trumpeter (1970’s and 1990’s)
Elegy	William G. McManus
World Premiere
Introduced and conducted by Dr. William G. McManus, Composer,  Concord Band Music Director (1995–2009), Music Director Emeritus (2009–present)
Welsh Variants	James Curnow
Introduced by Kenneth Troup, Bedford High School Class of 1962,  Concord Band percussionist (1971–present), Board member (2010–present)
El Capitan	John Philip Sousa/arr. Hindsley
Video remarks by John Ferrillo, Bedford High School Class of 1973,  principal oboist, Boston Symphony Orchestra (2001–present)
Auld Lang Syne	Trad/arr. William M. Toland

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El Capitan

El Capitan is the best known of John Philip Sousa’s fifteen operettas. The operetta concludes with this march and in 1899 Sousa increased his band to over a hundred musicians and featured this work in a victory parade for Admiral Dewey and his returning Spanish-American war veterans. (March Music Notes, Norman E. Smith)