It is the final week of the Municipal Band’s 75th season!

Join us Wednesday evening in Hughes Park and Sunday evening in Bever Park. Moo Moo’s Ice Cream Truck will be on hand for both concerts with free ice cream for the kids!

Music starts each night at 7:30 p.m. If you can’t make it in person, you can watch the concerts live on Facebook.

Learn more about our week nine concerts in this edition of KCCK’s Cultural Crawl.

This week’s music:

The Klaxon (Henry Fillmore, ed. Fennell)

Jump, Jive, an’ Swing (arr. Paul Murtha)

Pasodoble (Victoriano Valencia)

Reflective Mood (Sammy Nestico)
Aaron Piper, trombone, Young Artist Competition runner-up

The Cowboys (John Williams, arr. Curnow)

Declaration Overture (Claude T. Smith)

How To Train Your Dragon (arr. Sean O’Loughlin)

The Circus Bee (Henry Fillmore)

Due to excessive heat and humidity, tonight’s concert at Ellis Park is cancelled. Make your plans now to join us for the final two performances of the season–Wednesday at Hughes Park and Sunday at Bever Park.

Due to anticipated heat, the Wednesday concert is moving to Taft Middle School. We were fortunate to be able to relocate this concert, but will not be able to do so should the heat persist through Sunday. In that instance (or in the case of rain), the concert will be canceled rather than relocated.

Join the band this week in TAFT MIDDLE SCHOOL on Wednesday, July 23, and in Ellis Park on Sunday, July 27. Music starts at 7:30 p.m. both nights and also streams live on the band’s Facebook page. (Instructions for finding the livestream are here.)

On Sunday night, Moo Moo’s Ice Cream Truck will be on hand with free ice cream for the kids!

WEEK 8 REPERTOIRE

Flight (Claude T. Smith)

The Avengers (Alan Silvestri, arranged by Michael Brown)

Porro (Victoriano Valencia)

Opening Night on Broadway (arr. Michael Brown)

Clarinet Crazy! (George & Ira Gershwin, arr. Lars Erik Gudim)
Christine Bellomy, clarinet

Fugue on Yankee Doodle (John Philip Sousa, arr. Brion/Schissel)

Glenn Miller in Concert (arr. Wayne Scott)

High and Mighty (Fred Jewell, arranged by Andrew Glover)

Join us this week in two of our favorite venues. The band will be in Ellis Park on Wednesday, July 16, and in Bever Park on Sunday, July 20.

Music begins each evening at 7:30 p.m. The concerts can be streamed live on our Facebook page.
Instructions for enjoying the livestream: https://www.crmuniband.org/how-to-find-our-livestreams/

PROGRAM:
Exultate (Samuel Hazo)
When You Wish Upon a Star (Ned Washington & Leigh Harline, arr. Nestico)
Who’s Who in Navy Blue (John Philip Sousa)
Harvest Light (James Naigus) — Jacob White, horn
Pirates of the Caribbean: Symphonic Suite (Klaus Badelt, arr. Wasson)
Valdres (Johannes Hanssen, arr. Bainum)
Lerner and Loewe in Concert (arr. Warren Barker)
Banditen Galopp (Johann Strauss, arranged by David Shaffer)

This week, the band will perform two indoor concerts–which means neither rain nor heat can stop the music!

Join us on Wednesday, July 9, in the Marion High School auditorium. Music starts at 6:30 p.m. with the New Horizons Band and continues with the Muni Band at 7:30 p.m.

On Sunday, July 13, the band performs in Ballantyne Auditorium on the Kirkwood Community College campus. Music starts at 7:30 p.m.

Both concerts will be streamed live on our Facebook page.

PROGRAM:

Hands Across the Sea (John Philip Sousa, ed. Brion/Schissel)

Danzon No. 2 (Arturo Marquez, arr. Oliver Nickel)

Adoration (Florence Price, arr. Cheldon Williams)
Logan Vander Wiel, conductor

Chopsticks (Charles Owen)
Ben Hollinger, xylophone, Young Artist Competition runner-up

A Mere Moment (Michele Fernandez)

Concerto for Flute and Wind Ensemble, Mvts. 2 & 3 (Alan Theisen)
Rose Bishop, flute

Sinatra! (arr. Stephen Bulla)

Thunderbolt Galop (Fred K. Huffer, arr.  Andrew Glover)

Join the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band at Guthridge Park in Hiawatha on Wednesday, July 2, or at the McGrath Amphitheatre on July 6, for a performance featuring patriotic favorites and more. The band will be joined by the Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale under the direction of Gerald Kreitzer.

The program includes “Back Your Boy,” a piece written during World War One by two Cedar Rapidians. Recently discovered by Coe College faculty member Bethany Keenan and arranged for the band and concert chorale by our own Dr. Shanley, the march brings patriotism and local history together. You can learn more here.

PROGRAM:

Galaxy March (Frank Piersol)
American Faces (David Holsinger)
The Six Service Songs (arr. Gordon Goodwin)
Ellington! (arr. Stephen Bulla)
The Stars and Stripes Forever (John Philip Sousa)
America the Beautiful (Ward/Bates, arranged by Carmen Dragon)
Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale
Back Your Boy (Henry S. Ely & Earnest A. Leo, arr. Steve Shanley)
Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale
Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond, arr. Gene Cokeroft & Steve Shanley)
Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale
Battle Hymn of the Republic (arr. Wilhousky)
Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale

This week, the band honors the legacy of Dr. Morgan Jones.

Dr. Jones conducted the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band from 1994 to 2010 after a long and distinguished career as director of the Hawkeye Marching Band. He passed away on Wednesday, October 30, 2024, at the age of 86.

This week’s program will feature many of Dr. Jones’ favorite pieces from his time leading the band as well as vocal performances by Kelsey Madsen and a performance by trombonist Ben Allard, a Young Artist Competition runner-up.

The Wednesday, June 25, concert will be performed at Johnson STEAM Academy.
The Sunday, June 29, concert be performed at Ellis Park.
Music starts each evening at 7:30 p.m. and both concerts can be streamed on the band’s Facebook page.
(Info about finding our livestream can be found here.)

PROGRAM

Fanfare and Flourishes (James Curnow)
Finale from Symphony No. 4 in F Minor (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, arr. Vincent Frank Safranek)
They Can’t Take That Away From Me (George and Ira Gershwin, arr. Warren Barker)
Kelsey Madsen, vocals
Bugler’s Holiday (Leroy Anderson)
Chris Haas, Melissa Voss, Lee Stickney, trumpet trio
Amparito Roca (Jaime Texidor)
Concertino No. 4 (Ferdinand David, arr. Charles T. Yeago)
Ben Allard, trombone, Young Artist Competition runner-up
Fandango (Frank Perkins, arranged by Floyd Werle)
Mack the Knife (Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht arr. Marcel Saurer & Norman Tailor)
Kelsey Madsen, vocals
His Honor (Henry Fillmore)

This week, join us at McGrath Amphitheatre on Wednesday, June 18, and at Bever Park on Sunday, June 22. We are excited to be joined by Iowa Brass for a double header concert!

Please note: These performances have a special schedule!
7:00 to 7:45 p.m. — Iowa Brass performs
8:00 to 8:45 p.m. — CR Muni Band performs

Dr. Shanley discussed this week’s concerts on KCCK Culture Crawl. Watch here.

As always, the concerts will be livestreamed on the band’s Facebook page. (Info about finding our livestream can be found here.)

Week 3 Music

Bright Lights on Broadway (arranged by John Higgins)
Autumn Leaves (Joseph Kosma, arr. Alfred Reed & Mark Rogers)
Pop and Rock Legends: Elton John (Elton John, arr. Ted Ricketts)
Captain America March (Alan Silvestri, arr. Michael Brown)
Salute to Louis Armstrong (arr. Eric Osterling)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Danny Elfman, arr. Michael Brown)
Themes from “Green Bushes” (Percy Grainger, arranged by Larry Daehn)
Highlights from “Wicked” (arr. Michael Brown)
Whip and Spur Galop (Thomas Allen, arr. Ray Cramer)

This week, the band plays at Noelridge Park on Wednesday night and at Bever Park on Sunday night. Prior to the Sunday performance, the Cedar Rapids Youth Flute Ensemble will perform a prelude concert at 6:30 p.m. The Muni Band takes the stage at 7:30 p.m. on both Wednesday and Sunday.

Saxophonist Camden Neff, winner of the band’s annual Young Artist Competition, will perform Serenade for Alto Saxophone by Frank Bencriscutto. The concert will also feature music by Tommy Dorsey, George and Ira Gershwin, John Philip Sousa, and Karl King among others.

Each performance–including Sunday’s prelude concert–will be livestreamed on the Muni Band’s Facebook page.

Camden Neff