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:

Trumpet soloist Bruce Briney - https://qsoa.org/about/bruce-briney/

Claude T. Smith, composer of Emperata Overture - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_T._Smith

Julius Fucik, composer of Florentiner March - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Fu%C4%8D%C3%ADk_(composer)

Jeremy says that his "theme" for the concert is simply "great music" and we think our audience will agree! Jeremy's selections will include: Strike Up the Band by George Gershwin, arranged by Warren Barker; Saturday Serenade from Manhattan by Philip Sparke featuring trumpet soloist Bruce Briney; American Youth March by Morton Gould arranged by Philip Lang; Emperata Overture by Claude T. Smith; Spitfire! by Gary P. Gilroy; Florentiner March by Julius Fucik; Country Gardens by Percy Grainger; Deep River arranged by James Swearingen; Fiddler On the Roof by Jerry Bock arranged by Warren Barker including Fiddler On the Roof, Far From the Home I Love, Matchmaker, If I Were a Rich Man, Sunrise, Sunset, and To Life; and our traditional closing march, The Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa.

This summer's weather keeps offering the band challenges! We had the bagpipe concert moved to James Madison due to rain. This past week, the band sweltered through our "Christmas in July" concert which was one of the hottest on record. And this week's conductor Jeremy Henman's Monday night rehearsal had to have been one of the most chaotic in Muni Band history! Monday's big storm rolled through during the rehearsal and Jeremy bravely persevered through storm sirens, flickering lights (and brief complete power outages) and the band's temporary evacuation to an interior hallway. It would be fair to say that the band's musical focus was less than ideal!

When not conducting, Jeremy plays trumpet in the band and he's bringing his former trumpet teacher and mentor, retired Western Illinois University trumpet professor Bruce Briney to Burlington as guest soloist.