This Week's Concert -- Burlington Iowa Municipal Band

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. Unfortunately, if you are viewing this page on a summer Monday, what follows will undoubtedly be the information for YESTERDAY'S concert.

For those specifically SEEKING web pages from past concerts, our recent concert archives are now available online.

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

Herb Alpert, arranger of Tijuana Taxi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Alpert

Sells-Floto Circus - http://www.circusesandsideshows.com/circuses/sellsflotocircus.html

The Enigma Variations - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_Variations

Casey at the Bat (the poem) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_at_the_Bat

The Great Race (the motion picture for which Pie in the Face Polka was composed) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Race

Arthur Pryor (composer of The Whistler and his Dog) - http://www.wgpark.com/page.asp-pid=22.html

Transit of Venus (What Sousa’s March was about) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus

and a special link submitted by conductor Arnie Anderson -

https://youtu.be/jVSj1WUZ7Zk

The selections include: Alamo March by Karl King arranged by James Swearingen; Amazing Grace, setting by Frank Ticheli; Tijuana Taxi by Ervan Coleman arranged by Herb Alpert, guest soloist, Jack Anderson; Sells-Floto Triumphal March by Karl King; Down by the Riverside arranged by Zane Van Auken; Casey at the Bat, by Randol Alan Bass, poem by Ernest L. Thayer, narrated by Jim Priebe; Nimrod from Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar arranged by Alfred Reed; Pie in the Face Polka by Henry Mancini arranged by Johnnie Vinson; Transit of Venus March by John Philip Sousa, revised by Loras Schissel; The Whistler and his Dog by Arthur Pryor; and our traditional closing march, The Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa.

Our Father’s Day concert will be conducted by New London High School and Middle School band director Arnie Anderson. Arnie plays the tuba and, in addition to playing in the band, performs with the South Hill Brass. Arnie’s selections will include a wide variety of musical styles including traditional marches, Dixieland, classical and, (appropriately enough for Father’s day), “pop.”