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.

We were very gratified with the wonderful turnout for the Teddy Bear's Picnic concert and the opportunity to play with the talented middle school students who joined us for the performance. Super job, Janel! And our new mascot was officially named: he is the Muni Band's own "Muni Bear!" What fun!

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

William Owens, composer of Flourishes! - https://www.windrep.org/William_Owens

Victoriano Valencia, composer of Huayno - https://www.windrep.org/Victoriano_Valencia

Harold Walters, composer of Instant Concert - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_L._Walters

This week's concert of the Burlington Municipal Band will feature Ben Grochowsky as our conductor. Ben has been the High School band director in West Burlington but is leaving to pursue his master's degree in conducting at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Ben has been a saxophonist with the band and we are sorry to be losing him - we wish him well in his future endeavors. We hope that you will join us at the bandshell at 7:30 PM on Sunday June 9 for his last conducting performance in our area.

The band members are excited about the music Ben has chosen and enjoyed rehearsing it. His selections will be chosen from among the following: Flourishes! by William Owens; The Thunderer March by Sousa; Three Ayres From Gloucester by Hugh M. Stuart, including The Jolly Earl of Cholmondeley, Ayre for Eventide, and The Fiefs of Wembley; Instant Concert by Harold Walters; Aria by Emma Lou Diemer; New Wade'n Water by Adolphus Hailstork; On Parade by Amanda C.E. Aldridge; The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts! by Sufjan Stevens (and arranged by Ben Growchowsky); Folk Song Suite by Ralph Vaughn Williams, including Seventeen Come Sunday, My Bonny Boy, and Folk Songs from Somerset; The Huntress March by Karl King; Huayno by Victoriano Valencia; and our traditional closing march, The Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa.