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Overview
The Concert Band is an wind ensemble that performs a variety
of works including the Sousa marches, British Band literature,
Broadway music, the latest compositions, and much more. The
band typically performs several times each quarter.
Auditions
Auditions for the RIT Concert Band will take place
on Thursday, August 31, Friday, September 1, Monday, September
4, and Tuesday, September 5 from 12 noon to 4 PM in
the music room in
the basement of the SAU (Building 4). Please email
Dr. Jonathan Kruger ahead of time to pre-schedule a
time to play.
For the audition please prepare a piece
of music that you already know, preferably from a solo
concerto or sonata. In addition there will be sight-reading.
Generally speaking if you performed in a concert band
in high school you will be successful in performing the music
performed by the RIT Concert Band.
Works Performed Recently
Here is a list of
works that have been performed by the RIT Concert Band
over the past five years:
- Frank Ericson - Overture Jubiloso
- Aaron Copland - Lincoln Portrait
- Alfred Reed - A Festival Prelude
- Jay Babcock (arr) - Beauty and the Beast
- Jay Bocook (arr) - Danse Bacchanale
- Gustav Holst - First Suite in Eb
- Gustav Holst - Second Suite in F
- Harold L. Walters - Instant Concert
- James Swearingen - Sea Gate Overture
- John B. Chance - Variations on a Korean Folk Song
- John B. Chance - Incantation and Dance
- John Barnes Chance - Blue Lake
- John Philip Sousa - Liberty Bell
- John Williams - Sound The Bells
- John Williams / arr. Paul Lavender - Jurassic Park
- Leroy Anderson - Clarinet Candy
- Michael Brown - Appalachian Air
- Michael Sweeney - Kinesis
- Michael Sweeney - Distant Thunder of the Sacred Forest
- Michael Sweeney - Ancient Voices
- Phil Snedecor (World Premiere) - Concerto For Trumpet
- Ralph Ford - Royal Canadian Sketches
- Richard L. Saucedo - Awakening Hills
- Richard Saucedo - Snow Caps
- Robert R. Bennett - Suite of Old American Dances
- Robert Smith - Inchon
- Robert Smith - Symphony # 2 for Band
- Robert W. Smith - Inchon
- Sammy Nestico - Rhapsody for Flugelhorn and Band
- Samuel R. Hazo - Psalm 42
- Samuel R. Hazo - Perthshire Majesty
- Thomas Knox - American Pageant
Credit
Students can register for this 1 credit course.
Membership
Members are selected by audition.
Rehearsals
Wednesdays
7:00PM - 8:30PM
SAU Music Room (A120)
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