This Week -- The Burlington Iowa Municipal Band (LARGE PRINT)

Note from the webmaster: We update this web site at least once a week during our summer concert season. Since the program for each Sunday concert is finalized at our rehearsal on Monday evening, we generally post the week's update sometime on Tuesday or Wednesday. Unfortunately, if you are viewing this page on a summer Monday, what follows will undoubtedly be the information for YESTERDAY'S concert.

What fun! Our Teddy Bear's Picnic concert is in the books and it was a great start to our new season. Our sincere thanks to all who participated and joined us in this wonderful tradition!

This week's concert will be conducted by West Burlington High School band director Jeremy Henman. Jeremy just completed his first year as the high school band director in West Burlington but he is no stranger to the West Burlington students, having been the general music teacher at the elementary level for several years. He plays the trumpet in our band as well as the Southeast Iowa Symphony and often performs with other area orchestras including the Knox-Galesburg Symphony and the Quincy Symphony Orchestra.

Our vocal soloist for the concert is none other than Jeremy's mom, soprano Tanya Henman. We can't accuse Jeremy of nepotism in picking her as his soloist since she is well-known in our areas as having a beautiful voice and she has soloed with us several times! Tanya is the vocal music teacher with Burlington's Notre Dame schools and performs with the Bel Canto Chorale.

Fanfare from La Peri by Paul Dukas, arranged for band by Robert Longfield; Poet and Peasant Overture by Franz Von Suppe arranged by Henry Fillmore; El Relicario Paso Doble by Jose Padilla arranged by Philip Lang; Someone to Watch Over Me by George Gershwin arranged by Warren Barker, featuring Tanya Henman as soloist; Ars Vitae by Larry Clark; Selections from The King and I by Richard Rodgers arranged by Robert Russell Bennett; Byzantine Dances by Carol Brittin Chambers; March of the Trolls from Lyric Suite by Edvard Grieg arranged by Brian Beck; The Magnificent Seven by Elmer Bernstein arranged by Roy Phillippe and our traditional closing march, The Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa.

Links which may be of interest to members of our audience:

Paul Dukas, composer of La Peri - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dukas

George Gershwin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gershwin

Larry Clark, composer of Ars Vitae - https://www.larryclarkmusic.com/biography/#:~:text=Larry%20Clark%20(b.,with%20related%20methods%20and%20books.

Carol Brittin Chambers, composer of March of the Trolls - https://aspenwoodmusic.com/all-about/