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Classics Old and New

  • John B Connally High School 13212 North Lamar Boulevard Austin, TX, 78753 United States (map)

The Austin Symphonic Band presents Classics Old and New. Band music will be in the air as ASB celebrates the breadth and depth of exceptional concert band repertoire. Selections include works by Gustav Holst, Percy Grainger, Frank Ticheli and John Mackey.

Guest conductors included Marc Telles and Robert Floyd.

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Download a PDF of the Classics Old & New Program Here

Program

The Earl of Oxford’s Marche from William Byrd Suite. . . . . . . . . . William Byrd arr. Gordon Jacob

Bill Haehnel, Conductor

First Suite in E-flat for Military Band. . . . . . . . . . Gustav Holst rev., ed. Colin Matthews

I. Chaconne

II. Intermezzo

III. March

This Cruel Moon. . . . . . . . . . John Mackey

“Sheperd’s Hey” English Morris Dance. . . . . . . . . . Percy Grainger

Marc Telles, Conductor

Intermission

Fantasia in G Major. . . . . . . . . . Johann Sebastian Bach trans. Richard Franko Goldman and Robert L. Leist

Fortress. . . . . . . . . . Frank Ticheli

Robert Floyd, Conductor

Folk Song Suite for Military Band. . . . . . . . . . Ralph Vaughan Williams

I. March–Seventeen Come Sunday

II. Intermezzo–My Bonny Boy

III. March–Folk Songs from Somerset

Folk Dances. . . . . . . . . . Dmitri Shostakovich ed. H. Robert Reynolds


February 1, 2020 at the Luis P. "Chico" Portillo Performing Arts Center at Connally HS in Pflugerville. Dedicated to Charles Coward, who lost his battle with...

This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.