This week, the band divides for an epic battle…wait…er…epic concert!

Join us Wednesday, July 27 at Bowman Woods Elementary and Sunday, July 31 at Ellis Park. Concert time is 7:30 pm and you can watch the concerts live on our Facebook page or listen to the Sunday evening concert on KMRY radio.

Brass Choir Program

Fanfare from “La Peri” (Paul Dukas)
Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney, arranged by Seb Skelly)
Quidditch, from “Harry Potter” (John Williams)
Somebody to Love (Freddie Mercury, arranged by Seb Skelly)
Game of Thrones (Ramin Djawadi, arranged by Nick Fife)
Drinking Song (Brindisi) from “La Traviata” (Giuseppe Verdi, arranged by Marc Oliver)
Here Comes the Sun (George Harrison, arranged by Seb Skelly)

Woodwind Choir Program

Fanstasy on Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair
Il Re Pastore
Folksongs from Somerset
Orinoco Cocoa
Irish Tune from County Derry
Prelude from Le Tombeau de Couperin
Heliotrope Bouquet

Join the Muni Band this week at Kirkwood Community College on Wednesday, July 20, and at McGrath Amphitheatre on Sunday, July 24.

Concert time is 7:30 pm. You can watch the performances live on Facebook and hear the Sunday concert on KMRY radio.

Now, you may have heard a certain conductor (we shall not name him here, but his initials are Steve Shanley) suggest that the Kirkwood concert will be held indoors. It will not. We include a map here to show you where the concert will be held and where you will be able to park.

THE PROGRAM:
Festive Overture (Dmitri Shostakovich, arr. Hunsberger)
Sabre and Spurs (John Philip Sousa, arr. Fennell)
Rhapsody for Euphonium (James Curnow) — Caleb Lambert, euphonium
The Little Mermaid (Alan Menken, arr. Bocook)
Concertpiece No. 2 (Felix Mendelssohn) — Christine Bellomy & Thiago Ancelmo, clarinet
Chicago Tribune March (W. Paris Chambers)
Theme from “The Magnificent Seven” (Elmer Bernstein, arr. Paul Yoder)
Rolling Thunder (Henry Fillmore, arr. Fennell)

This week, the Wednesday night performance will include a juggling performance by Benjamin Domask-Ruh as Cedar Rapids welcomes the 75th Annual International Jugglers Convention to town! Join us on July 13 at The History Center to catch (see what we did there?) this special event.

If you can’t attend in person, you can tune in on our Facebook page.

While there won’t be juggling on Sunday night, July 17, in Ellis Park, there will still be plenty of wonderful music. Whether in-person, on Facebook, or on KMRY radio, we hope you will join us!

PROGRAM

• Slava! (Leonard Bernstein, arranged by Clare Grundman)
• Bring Him Home (Schonberg, Boublil, & Kretzmer, arranged by Mark Armstrong)
  Luke Lovegood, Voice
• Brighton Beach (William P. Latham)
• Introduction, Theme and Variations (Gioacchino Rossini, transcribed by
  Marco Tamanini)
  Madeline Nuss, Clarinet (Young Artist Competition Runner-Up)
• You Raise Me Up (Rolf Løvland & Brendan Graham, arranged by John Wasson)
  Luke Lovegood, Voice
• Symphonic Beatles (arranged by John Cacavas)
• Jump, Jive, an’ Swing (arr. Paul Murtha)
• Sabre Dance (Khatchaturian, arr. Marc Oliver)
• The Big Cage (Karl King, arranged by Andrew Glover)

The band celebrated America in during week four. For week five, we travel around the globe and beyond.

Way beyond.

Join us this week at Cleveland School on Wednesday, July 6 and in Bever Park on Sunday, July 10.

Concerts can also be viewed live on the band’s Facebook page and the Sunday evening performance can be heard live on KMRY radio.

The Program:

Toccata Marziale (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
African Samba (Adam Gorb)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (John Williams, arranged by Jay Bocook)
Clarinet Polka (arranged by Bruce R. Smith)
Piccolo Espagnol (James Christensen) Rose Bishop, Piccolo; Bill Carson, Guest Conductor
Albanian Dance (Shelley Hanson)
Hoagy Carmichael: An American Classic (arr. James Kessler)
Hungarian Dance (Tchaikovsky, arr. Wil Van der Beek)
Leichtes Blut Galop (Johann Strauss, arranged by Glen Lienhart)

First things first. Or maybe Fourth things first.

This week’s concerts will happen on Wednesday, June 29, at the McGrath Amphitheatre and on MONDAY, July 4, at Guthridge Park in Hiawatha. There will be no Sunday evening performance.

Performances can be viewed live on the band’s Facebook page.

Given the patriotic holiday, you can expect a slate of patriotic and other iconic American tunes!

Superman March (John Williams, arranged by Paul Lavender)
Armed Forces Salute (arranged by Bob Lowden)
West Side Story Selection (Leonard Bernstein, arranged by William Duthoit)
River City March (Frank Piersol)
America the Beautiful (Ward/Bates, arranged by Carmen Dragon)
Sweet Trombone Rag (Al Sweet)
Big Band Spectacular (arranged by John Higgins)
Shenandoah (arranged by R. Paul Astley)
The Stars and Stripes Forever (John Philip Sousa)

This week, the band is proud to present percussionist Arjun Palaniappan, winner of our 2022 Young Artist Competition. Arjun will join the band for Kibo, a piece by Andrea Venet and arragned by our own Dr. Shanley. The arrangement features the talented young musician on snare drum.

Laci McHenry, a student at Kennedy High School, will be featured on vocals for the Star Spangled Banner and the Cedar Rapids Song of Dedication.

The Wednesday night performance (6/22) will take place in Noelridge Park. The Sunday night performance (6/26) will be in Bever Park and will be preceded by a concert by the New Horizons Band at 6:15 pm. The Muni Band takes the stage both nights at 7:30 pm.

Both Muni Band concerts can be viewed live on Facebook; the Sunday evening concert will also be broadcast on KMRY radio.

The full Muni Band program:
The Thunderer (John Philip Sousa)
Satiric Dances (Norman Dello Joio)
Selections from “Moana” (arr. by Jay Bocook)
Themes from “Green Bushes” (Percy Grainger, arranged by Larry Daehn)
Kibo (Andrea Venet, arr. Steve Shanley)
Colonel Bogey (Kenneth J. Alford, arr. Frederick Fennell)
Waltz from “Jazz Suite” (Shostakovich, arr. de Meij)
Legends of Jazz (arr. Stephen Bulla)
The Southerner (Russell Alexander)

This week, Dan Terrell leads the band in a program that includes music by musical theater heavyweights Stephen Sondheim and Lin-Manuel Miranda, marches by Iowa’s own Karl King and Frank Piersol, and much more.

Join us Wednesday, June 15 at Johnson Steam Academy and Sunday, June 19 at Ellis Park for performances at 7:30 pm. The Ellis Park performance will feature a prelude concert by CR Jazz under the direction of Joe Perea at 6:30 pm.

The Muni Band performances will be aired live on our Facebook page; you can also listen to the Sunday night performance on KMRY radio.

The Muni Band program:

• Festmusik der Stadt Wien (Richard Strauss/arr. Banks and Rundel)
• West Highlands Sojourn (Robert Sheldon)
• Peacemaker March (Karl King/ed. Swearingen)
• The Grumbly Old Bear (Julius Fucik/arr. Glover) — Blaine Cunningham, tuba
• Variations on a Shaker Melody (Aaron Copland)
• Selections from Sweeney Todd (Stephen Sondheim/arr. Bulla)
• Ye Banks and Braes O’ Bonnie Doon (Percy Grainger)
• Pavilion March (Frank Piersol)
• Selections from Encanto (Lin-Manuel Miranda/arr. Murtha)
• Curtain Call (John Wasson)

The new season of Muncipal Band performances begins this week with a performance on Wednesday, June 8 at The History Center and another on Sunday, June 12 in Bever Park. Both concerts will begin at 7:30 pm.

On Sunday evening, the Cedar Rapids Metro Youth Wind Ensemble (sponsored by Coe College) will perform a prelude concert beginning at 6:30 pm.

Week one’s concerts will feature David Lang on euphonium and alphorn; Kyra Kanz from Linn-Mar High School singing the National Anthem and the Cedar Rapids Song of Dedication; and Hashim Tyler, director of the Cedar Rapids Parks & Recreation department, conducting Karl King’s “Iowa Band Law.”

The full performance will include:

• Iowa Band Law (Karl King) 
• Second Suite in F (Gustav Holst) 
• Brillante (Peter Graham) 
• Selections from “Sing” (arranged by Michael Brown) 
• Washington Post (John Philip Sousa) 
• T.D.’s Boogie Woogie (Tommy Dorsey, arranged by Andy Clark) 
• The Spirit of Alphorn (Hans-Jürg Sommer, arr. Mario Bürki) 
• Ringling Brothers Grand Entry (Al Sweet, arranged by Andrew Glover) 2.5 (CRMB 265)

All performances by the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band are family (and pet!) friendly and free to attend. They can also be viewed on the band’s Facebook page. Please note that concerts are not archived on Facebook and so must be viewed live.

The Commission will meet at 4:30 PM on Friday, 1 April 2022. This will be a working session prior to auditions. Please note that the auditions themselves are NOT open to the public.

The CR Municipal Band is holding its annual auditions (after a two-year break!) on Friday, 1 April, and Saturday, 2 April, at CR Washington High School. Openings are known for Flute, Saxophone, and Trumpet. But we’re also hearing auditions for all other instruments to help fill out the substitute musician list. We need percussion subs in particular.

Please see the flyer at the link below for details. Slots are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

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