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2 unusual facts about concert band


Etobicoke School of the Arts

ESA offers artistic programs for students who successfully complete the audition process in the major of their choice, namely Drama, Dance, Visual Arts, Film, Music (Band or Strings), and Musical Theatre.

Students are accepted into their chosen field, namely Drama, Dance, Visual Arts, Music (Band or Strings), Film and Musical Theatre, after undergoing an application process and passing an audition the year before.


C. L. Barnhouse Company

Known today as a major publisher of educational instrumental (band) works, the C. L. Barnhouse catalog includes many historical publications of the classic concert band era by composers C. L. Barnhouse, Russell Alexander, Karl L. King, Fred Jewell, and J. J. Richards.

Dallas Wind Symphony

The Dallas Wind Symphony (DWS) is a professional concert band based in Dallas, Texas (USA).

David Maslanka

His works for percussion include “Montana Music: Three Dances for Percussion,” “Variations of ‘Lost Love,’” “My Lady White,” “Arcadia II: Concerto for Marimba and Percussion Ensemble,” and “Crown of Thorns.” Maslanka has also written a complete Mass for full choir, soprano, and baritone soli, with accompaniment by full symphonic band.

Henninger High School

The Wind Ensemble, a select version of its main Concert Band traditionally plays a copy of the original arrangement of Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Ride.

Lanarkshire Orchestral Society

The Lanarkshire Orchestral Society is a group of three concert bands and three String orchestras, based in Lanarkshire, Scotland.

RAF Wyton Area Voluntary Band

The concert band appear regularly at military events, civic parades, church services and charity concerts, largely in the East of England, although the band have also performed in London, Birmingham and toured in Cyprus.

Royal Harmonie Sainte Cécile Eijsden

Royal Harmonie Sainte Cécile Eijsden (Koninklijke Harmonie Sainte Cécile Eijsden) is a concert band in Eijsden, Netherland was founded in 1880.

Warwick Veterans High School

Warwick Veterans also has a concert band that performs several concerts a year, a marching band that plays at parades on Veterans Day and Gaspee Day, and a jazz band and concert orchestra that usually perform with the concert band — all are run by Danielle Prior.


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5523 Luminet

The French composer Thérèse Brenet (Prix de Rome in 1965) wrote a work for concert band named for this asteroid, which was premièred in Paris in 2003 by the Musique de L'armée de Terre in Paris.

Al Berard

As a student at Cecilia High School, his musical talents allowed him to become an active member of the school’s concert band in addition to performing as lead guitarist in a local rock band of whom he founded.

Burlington Concert Band

The Burlington Concert Band is a Vermont based band and was originally formed in 1851 as the Burlington Cornet Band under the leadership of J.B. Holmberg.

Chinguacousy Township, Ontario

The name lives on in Brampton in Chinguacousy Park, Chinguacousy Road, the Chinguacousy Concert Band, and Chinguacousy Secondary School, among other things.

Lucan Concert Band

Lucan Concert Band was formed in 1983 by Eithne Donnelly, its purpose being to provide musical education to the youth in Lucan, County Dublin, Ireland, where it is based.

Music for Prague 1968

The work was commissioned by Ithaca College and was premiered in January 1969 in Washington, DC at the Music Educators National Conference by Dr. Kenneth Snapp and the Ithaca College Concert Band.

Nottingham Concert Band

Part of the musical landscape of the East Midlands since 1991 Nottingham Concert Band began life as Trent Concert Band which in turn arose from the music department of Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University).

Philip Sparke

World premiere on December 1, 2009 at the OPSU Centennial Theatre by the Oklahoma Panhandle State University Concert Band, under the direction of Dr. Matthew C. Saunders in Goodwell, Oklahoma, United States.

Shannon Powell

In high school Powell was a member of the well-respected concert band at Joseph S. Clark High School and member of trumpeter Leroy Jones' first band, New Orleans Finest.

Suite of Old American Dances

Among the "productions" Bennett refers to is the 1939 New York World's Fair for which he composed some 90 minutes of concert band music for the nightly "Lagoon of Nations" spectacles.

The Kingstone School

Kingstone School was home to the Kingstone Concert Band (formerly Kingstone School Concert Band), which played at Blackpool Opera House, Disneyland Paris, Efteling theme park in Holland, and which in April 2006 toured Barcelona promoting Concert bands in the area.

Thomas Duffy

Thomas C. Duffy (born 1955), American composer and conductor of the Yale University Concert Band

United States Armed Forces School of Music

One of the highlights of the move of the School of Music was the dedication ceremony concert, which included Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops, conducting the School of Music Concert Band.

Weymouth High School

These activities include chapters of SADD and Amnesty International, a Student Senate, a Math Team, a Concert Band, a Choir, a Drama Club, an FRC Robotics Team, and a Yearbook Committee.

Wyoming Area School District

These activities include Chess Club, Key Club, Builder's Club, Student Council, Art Club, FBLA, SADD, TATU, Marching Band, Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, Indoor Percussion, Chorus and Drama.