The band's spring concert

I just got home from performing in my community band's spring concert. It was a good concert -- you should have been there, you the reader, whoever you are.

Here's the program:

Semper Fidelis - John Philip Sousa
Raymond Overture - Ambrose Thomas, arr. T. Matsushiro
Piano Concerto in A Minor - Edvard Grieg
Benny Goodman, the King of Swing - medley arr. by Paul Murtha
Tico-Tico - Zequinha Abreu, arr. Naohiro Iwai

Intermission

March of the Belgian Parachutists - Pieter Leemans, arr. J.R. Bourgeois
In the Miller Mood - Glenn Miller medley arr. by Warren Baker
March, Op. 99 - Sergei Prokofiev
A Lincoln Portrait - Aaron Copland, arr. Walter Beeler
Finale, Symphony No. 5, Op. 47 - D. Shostakovich, arr. C.B. Richter
America the Beautiful - Samuel Augustus Ward, arr. Carmen Dragon
The Star Spangled Banner
Tico-Tico (again)

William Crowle was the piano soloist for Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor.

A Lincoln Portrait was narrated by Wayne Messmer, known to Chicagoans for his rendition of the national anthem at Cubs and Blackhawks games. Messmer also sang The Star Spangled Banner at the end of this concert.

It was a long enough program, but the band director had us play Tico-Tico again as an encore, just to prove to everyone that we still had some lip left after more than two hours of playing.