Repertoire for 2023-2024

2023-2024: The 36th Season

Upcoming performances:

Spring Concert – “Titans”
Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 8:00 pm

  • Arabesque, by Samuel R. Hazo (O rose of May, by Harrison J. Collins, has been rescheduled to a future concert)
  • Early One Morning, by Percy Grainger, arranged by Joseph Kreines – Dr. Tim Robblee, conductor
  • Handel in the Strand, by Percy Grainger – Dr. Tim Robblee, conductor
  • Concerto for Euphonium, by Tom Davoren – SSg Chris Leslie, euphonium
  • Riften Wed, by Julie Giroux
  • Symphony in Bb, by Paul Hindemith

Summer Concert – “Pops & Patriots”
Sunday, July 2, 2023 at 4:00 pm, in the Venetian Theater, Caramoor

  • Pre-Americana, arranged by Barton Green
  • The Star-Spangled Banner, by John Stafford Smith/arranged by John Philip Sousa/harmonized by Walter Damrosch –
  • Other works TBA
  • John Philip Sousa – The Stars & Stripes Forever

Past performances:

Fall Concert – “Legends”
Sunday, November 5, 2023 at 3:00 pm

  • Pre-Americana, arranged by Barton Green
  • The Star-Spangled Banner, arranged by John Philip Sousa, harmonized by Walter Damrosch
  • Overture to Candide, by Leonard Bernstein, arranged by Clare Grundman – Andrew Hill, conductor
  • dream of ember, dream of star, by David Biedenbender – Dr. Brian K. Doyle, conductor
  • Concertino for English Horn, by Gaetano Donizetti, arranged by Douglas A. Richard – Pedro Diaz, English horn
  • Shimmering Sunshine – Kevin Day
  • Entrance of the Queen of Sheba – George Frideric Handel, arranged by Barton Green – Invitational Double Reed Ensemble
  • Bohemian Rhapsody – Freddie Mercury, arranged by Barton Green – Invitational Double Reed Ensemble
  • Symphony No. 3, “Slavyanskaya” – Boris Kozhevnikov, arranged by John R. Bourgeois

Winter Concert – “Monuments”
Sunday, February 11, 2024 at 2:00 pm (Super Bowl Sunday)

  • Overture to Nabucco – Giuseppe Verdi – Michelle Rofrano, guest conductor
  • Tower Ascending – Wayne Oquin
  • Bring Him Home, from Les Misérables – music by Claude-Michel Schoenberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil, arranged by Barton Green – John Anthony Lopez, tenor
  • Nessun Dorma, by Giacomo Puccini, arranged by Barton Green – John Anthony Lopez, tenor
  • Symphonic Dance, No. 2, “The Maskers” – Clifton Williams – Aaron Staluppi, apprentice conductor
  • Symphonic Dances from West Side Story – Leonard Bernstein, arranged by Paul Lavender

Collaboration Concerts with the West Point Band
Saturday, March 9 at 2:00 pm at Eisenhower Hall, United States Military Academy
Saturday, March 16 at 2:00 pm at White Plains High School, White Plains

  • Shimmering Sunshine – Kevin Day
  • Riften Wed – Julie Giroux
  • Desert Sage – Michael Markowski
    Combined with the West Point Band:
  • Simple Gifts – arranged by Noah Taylor
  • The Stars and Stripes Forever – John Philip Sousa, arranged by Keith Brion and Loras Schissel