 | The Capital Wind SymphonyGeorge Etheridge, conductor
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The next concert for the 2007--2008 Season:
Sunday, 2008 May 18 3:00 PM Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria Campus 3001 North Beauregard Street Alexandria, VA 22311 Schlesinger Center 
Concert selections include: March in Bb, Op. 99, (1943/1944) by Sergei Prokofiev Festive Overture, Op. 96, (1954) by Dmitri Shostakovich arranged by Donald Hunsburger Symphony No. 4 (1967) by Boris T. Kozhevnikov arranged by Patrick Murphy This work will be conducted by Patrick Murphy. “Three dances” from The Maid of Orleans opera (1881) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky arranged by Col. John R. Bourgeois (Ret.) This work will be conducted by Col. John R. Bourgeois Symphony No. 1 (Finale) (1895/1896) by Vasily Kalinnikov * * * |
Guest conductors for this concert are Mr. Patrick Murphy, a doctoral student at the University of Arizona. Mr. Murphy discovered the Kozhevnikov Symphony No. 4 in Moscow and arranged it for instrumentation for American Wind Band.
Col. John R. Bourgeois was the 25th Director of the U. S. Marine Band, “The President's Own,” from 1979 until 1983. Col. Bourgeois is past president of the American Bandmasters Association, chairman of the board and past president of the National Band Association, president of the John Philip Sousa Foundation, and the American vice president of the International Military Music Society. He has served on the boards of directors for the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles and the Association of Concert Bands. As Director of the Marine Band, Bourgeois was Music Director of Washington, D.C.’s prestigious Gridiron Club. He is a member of the Military Order of the Carabao, the Alfalfa Club, and the College Band Directors National Association. In his retirement Colonel Bourgeois stays busy as a guest conductor-clinician, as a Visiting Professor at Loyola University New Orleans in a chair endowed in his name. He continues to produce wind band arrangements and editions for Wingert-Jones I, a series known as “The Bourgeois Editions.” |
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The Capital Wind Symphony’s 2007 – 2008 season at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center on Sunday at 3:00 PM Concert dates: 2007 November 18 2008 February 24 2008 May 18 |
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Previous concerts:
2007 November 18 Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 (1708), by Johann Sebastian Bach, arranged by Erik Leidzén Vientos y Tangos (2004) by Michael Gandolfi Mannin Veen “Dear Isle of Man” (1933) by Haydn Wood Blue Shades (1997) by Frank Ticheli Variations for Wind Band (1957) by Ralph Vaughan Williams scored for large wind ensemble by Donald Hunsberger (1998).
2007 May 13 (Sunday) Featured are works by George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue with pianist Sayaka Kanno Catfish Row with vocalists William A. Johnson (baritone) and Alice Dillon (soprano) Cuban Overture and Strike Up the Band |
 Ms. Kanno began her musical studies in Kobe, Japan at the age of six with her mother, a Professor of Piano at Osaka Kyoiku University, and continued her studies with William Knight at Shorter College in Rome, GA. She received her B.M. and M.M. degrees in Piano Performance from Indiana University as a student of Karen Shaw, where she was also appointed as an Associate Instructor. She has also studied with Germaine Mounier at the Hochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Ms. Kanno has appeared in concerto performances with the Columbus College Orchestra, Rome Symphony Orchestra, and LaGrange Symphony Orchestra. Most recently, she performed Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto with the Washington Sinfonietta at its Inaugural Concert. She has won awards in competitions including Corpus Christi International Competition, Josef Hofmann Piano Competition, Sigma Alpha Iota International Piano Competition, La Grange Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Competition, LMTA Young Artist Performance Competition, Louisiana State University Dean’s Concerto Competition, and Kawai Southern Keyboards Audition. She has studied collaborative piano with musicians including violinists Henryk Kowalski and Yuval Yaron, violist Jerzy Kosmala, cellist Dennis Parker, and flutists Kate Lucas and Thomas Robertello. Ms. Kanno is a D.M.A., ABD, Piano Performance candidate at Louisiana State University as a student of Constance Knox Carroll. She was awarded a Doctoral Enhancement Fellowship Award and a Graduate Teaching Assistantship. In September 2006, Ms. Kanno joined the Levine School of Music piano faculty.  Alice Elizabeth Dillon received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Music Education from the University of Maryland and her Masters of Music Degree in Voice from the New England Conservatory. Ms. Dillon completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Voice from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She has been the recipient of a New England Conservatory Scholarship, the Rheta Sosland Scholarship, the Minority Doctoral Fellowship, the Special Merit Award, and the UMKC Women’s Council Fellowship. Ms. Dillon has appeared in operatic roles locally and across the country. She has performed the roles Servilia and the 2nd lady with the IN Series, as well as Zemfira in the Russian opera Aleko, Countess Ceprano, Giovanna and the Page in Rigoletto with Bel Cantanti. Her other roles include Voice of Heaven in Don Carlo with Da Corneto Opera Ensemble, Frasquita in Carmen with the American Opera Group in Chicago, the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors with the Deep Ellum Opera Theatre in Dallas, and Pamina and Pappagena in The Magic Flute with Opera New England. In May, she sang the soprano solo in the Brahms Requiem with NOVA Manassas Symphony & Community Chorale. She has been a soloist in concerts with the Annapolis Opera and the Illiana Oratorio Society. Other appearances include The Lake George Opera, Light Opera Works, The Boston Lyric Opera, The Chicago Lyric Opera, The Chicago Symphony Chorus, and The Washington Opera. Ms. Dillon has taught at UMKC Conservatory of Music/Continuing Education in Kansas City, Missouri, Tarrant County Junior College in Fort Worth, Texas, South Suburban College in South Holland, Illinois, and Morgan State University and Essex Community College in Baltimore, Maryland. She currently teaches at Forest Oak Middle School along with the students of her private studio.  William A. Johnson, a native of Washington, DC, received his Bachelor of Music degree in Voice/Opera from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, studying with renowned baritones John Shirley-Quirk and William Sharp. William has performed on both concert and opera stages and as a chamber musician and solo recitalist in Europe and many cities throughout the eastern United States. William has performed the role of Don Alfonso in Mozart's opera Cosi Fan Tutti, Marcello in Puccini's opera La Boheme, Talpa in Puccini's opera Il Tabarro, Frank in Puccini's opera Edgar, Dr. Malatesta in a scene from Donizetti's opera Don Pasquale, Porgy in excerpts from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess Count Almaviva in a scene from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro. In concert, William has performed as the bass soloist in Handel's Messiah and the baritone soloist in Ned Rorem's The Evidence of Things Not Seen. William was a Regional Winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and was seen in the Metropolitan Opera finals performance concert at the Terrace Theater of the Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. william has performed with the Washington National Opera as a memeber of the Opera Chorus. William is currently the Cantor and the Assistant to the Music Director at St. Joseph's Monastery Parish in Baltimore, MD, and he maintains a very small studio of private voice students. |
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2007 February 18 (Sunday) 3:00 PM Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria Campus 3001 North Beauregard Street Alexandria, VA 22311 Schlesinger Center Program Symphony #3 by James Barnes, Op. 89, (1997) Music for the Royal Fireworks George Friedrich Handel, HWV351 (1749) Concert Suite for solo Alto Saxophone and Band by William Bolcom (1998) 
Soloist Jason McFeaters 2006 November 12 (Sunday) 3:00 PM Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria Campus 3001 North Beauregard Street Alexandria, VA 22311 Schlesinger Center Program Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582, by Johann Sebastian Bach, arranged by Nicholas D. Falcone Symphony for Band (1952) by Morton Gould First Suite in Eb for Military Band, Op. 28, No. 1, (1921) by Gustav Holst Dance Movements (1997) by Philip Sparke “Panis Angelicus” from Messe Solennelle by César Franck, arranged by Philip Sparke Fanfare for a New Era (1997) by Jack Stamp
2006 May 7 (Sunday) 3:00 PM McLean High School 1633 Davidson Road McLean, Virginia 22101
2005 October 30 3:00 PM McLean High School 1633 Davidson Road McLean, Virginia 22101 Program: “Arrival of the Queen of Sheeba” from the oratorio Solomon, HWV 67, by George Frideric Handel, arranged by Ted Ricketts Overture to Egmont, Op. 84, by Ludwig van Beethoven, arranged by Gerard Posch Variants on a Mediæval Tune by Norman Dello Joio Huldigungsmarsch (Homage March) by Richard Wagner (original work for wind orchestra) Ghosts by Stephen McNeff (original work for wind orchestra)
2006 February 26 (Sunday) 3:00 PM McLean High School 1633 Davidson Road McLean, Virginia 22101 Program includes: Die Meistersinger (overture)by Richard Wagner, arranged by Mark H. Hindsley Grand Central Station by Michael Torke “Liebestod” from the operaTristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner, arranged by Glenn Bainum 
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