Spring Band Concert

Featuring the 7th Grade Symphonic Band 8th Grade Symphonic Winds

Thursday, April 27, 2023 7:00 P.M.

Shaker Heights Middle School Auditorium

Band Directors

Jason Clemens

Dan Crain

Bill Hughes

Adrian Pocaro

Ryan Freeman, Student Teacher, Kent State University

Program

7th Grade Symphonic Band

Adrian Pocaro, Director

Cuyahoga River March ................................................ John Pasternak

The Pioneers ................................................................... Robert Sheldon

A Finlandian Celebration .................................................. Noah Taylor

8th Grade Symphonic Winds

Adrian Pocaro, Director

The Charlatan ........................................................... John Phillip Sousa

Mr. Everest ................................................................... Rossano Galante

Choreography ................................................................ Robert Sheldon

Pirates of the Caribbean Symphonic Suite .................... Klaus Badelt, arr. John Wasson

Program Notes

The Charlatan - As was the popular custom of its day, The Charlatan March was extracted from a contemporaneous operetta of the same name. While not his most successful or popular stage venture, The Charlatan did rank second, due partly to the performance and popularity of theater great DeWolf Hopper, for whom the operetta was written. The work was composed while Sousa was recuperating from exhaustion brought on by the stress of touring just prior to the Spanish-American war. This might explain the absence of martial themes from the operetta, which takes place in a rural province of southern Russia. The plot revolves around the typical contrivances or arranged marriages, mistaken identities, and includes a traveling magician and the requisite happy ending. This particular march, consisting of musical material of the final two acts of the operetta, is decidedly lighter than the more familiar militaristic marches for which Sousa is known.

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