YCB 1986-1987

Director Thomas C. Duffy
Business Manager Philip Greene
President Ellen Whalen
General Managers Michael Berman, Aaron Sherber
Social Chairs Sarah Lamar, Carol Symes
Personnel Manager Sharon Buccino
Alumni Relations Victor Feinberg
Publicity Manager Michael Wetstone
Music Librarian Ellen Whalen (Marilee Matthiessen, Assistant)
Principals  
Concerts & Repertoire 10/29/86 THE CONNECTICUT LIBERTY CONCERT, STARRING VICTOR BORGE
Franz Waxman: Liberty Fanfare
William Schuman: Chester Overture for Band
Thomas C. Duffy: By The Shining Big-Sea Water (The Song of Hiawatha)
Joseph Wilcox Jenkins: American Overture
Charles Ives (arr. Schuman): Variations on “America”
John Philip Sousa: Hands Across the Sea
Traditional (arr. Duffy): The Star-Spangled Banner
Samuel Augustus Ward (arr. Dragon): America The Beautiful
E.E. Bagley (ed. Brion): National Emblem March
Charles Gounod (arr. Duffy): La Liberté Éclairant Le Monde, with the Connecticut High School Liberty Band, the Yale Glee Club, the Yale Freshman Chorus, the Yale Camerata, and the Marquand Chapel Choir

12/5/86 HOLIDAY CONCERT
Leonard Bernstein (arr. Beeler): Overture to Candide
Thomas C. Duffy: The Song of Hiawatha
Percy Grainger: Molly on the Shore
J.S. Bach (arr. Grainger/ed. Brion): O Mensch, Bewein Sunde Groβ
Anton Bruckner: Apollo March
Howard Hanson (arr. McBeth): Symphony No. 2 “Romantic”, Movement III
Zo Elliott: The British Eighth
Elliot del Borgo: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
John Barnes Chance: Incantation and Dance

2/13/87 WINTER CONCERT
Felix Mendelssohn: Overture for Band
Franz Waxman: Objective, Burma!
Leonard Bernstein: Danzon
Kent Kennan: Night Soliloquy
Karel Husa: Music for Prague
Byron Adams: Ballade for Piano and Wind Orchestra, feat. Craig Combs, piano [world premiere]
Russell Peck: Cave of the Winds

4/12/87 SPRING CONCERT
Thomas C. Duffy: Blue and Crimson
Paul Hindemith (trans. Wilson): “March” from Symphonic Metamorphosis
Thomas C. Duffy: Crystals
Vincent Persichetti: Psalm for Band (Aaron Sherber, guest conductor)
Paul Creston: Concertino for Marimba and Band, Movement I, feat. Suzanne Swift, marimba
Karel Husa: Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band, feat. Dr. Eugene Rousseau, alto saxophone
George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Medley, feat. Dr. Eugene Rousseau, alto saxophone
Sir William Walton: Crown Imperial (Coronation March 1937)
Special Events  
Tour 1987: Japan (13 performances concluding with an appearance at the All-Asia Band Conference in Tokyo; guest artists Karel Husa, composer/conductor and Eugene Rousseau, alto saxophone)
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