Vermont Catamount Brass Band

Foliage Concert

Lamoille County Players Music Series
sponsored by:
The Lamoille County Players

October 11, 2002
Hyde Park Opera House
Hyde Park, VT

Marty McRae, Guest Conductor
Jack Phipps, Cornet Soloist

Special Thanks to:
Allen Church, Dean Burnell, Dave Didomenico, John Dunn & Raechel Patch, Lamoille County Players

Program

The Star Spangled Banner - Himes
Clog Dance - Marcangelo/Charleson

Willow Echoes (Cornet Solo) - F. Muscroft
Jack Phipps, Cornet Soloist

A Moorside Suite - Holst
Forgotten Garden (Ground Force) - Parker
Hava Nagila - Traditional/Woodfield
I Got Rhythm - Gershwin/Fernie
Alexander's Ragtime Band - Berlin/Siebert

Intermission

Entry of the Gladiators - Fucik
Bag O' Bones (Trombone Feature) - Greenwood
Bear Irwin, Tom Lackey, Brian Jones,Trombone Trio

Meet the Flintstones - Hanna, Barbera & Curtis/Richards
Serenata - Anderson/Freeh
There's No Business Like Show Business - Berlin/Richards
God Bless America - Weatherall
Encore The Washington Post - Sousa

The Band

Conductor
Marty McRae

Marty McRae

Cornets
Rich Steele, Soprano
Jack Phipps, Solo
Bruce McRae, Solo
Pat Roberts, Solo
Dick Toof, Solo
Cam Cross, Repiano
Mike McGovern, 2nd
Neil Wacek, 2nd
John Luce, 3rd
Ray Morton, 3rd

Horns
Brian Sylvester, Flugelhorn
David Kratz
Priscilla Douglas
Kelly Daige

Baritones
Gary Aubin, 1st
Thea Calitri Martin, 2nd

Trombones
Bear Irwin, Solo
Tom Lackey, 2nd
Brian Jones, Bass

Euphoniums
Dale Long
Jon Stebbins

Basses
Jim Diette, Eb
Mark Stebbins, Bb

Percussion
Dov Schiller, Set
Patty Eisenman, Mallets

PRESS RELEASE

Vermont Catamount Brass Band

Foliage Concert at the Hyde Park Opera House

The Lamoille County Players presents the Vermont Catamount Brass Band in concert at the historic Hyde Park Opera House on Friday, October 11 at 7:00pm. This foliage season concert, part of the LCP Music Series, will include a variety of traditional, contemporary and popular concert band music. The Hyde Park Opera House is handicap-accessible. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for seniors and students; there is a special Family Rate of $25 available for this concert. For tickets, contact the Opera House at 888-4507.

The Brass Band has 26 members and features Cornets, Trumpets, Horns, Trombones, Baritones, Euphoniums, Tubas, Drums, and Percussion. The Band draws its musicians from the best jazz bands, concert bands, and orchestras in the Vermont community. Many are featured in the orchestra of LCP musicals, including Kelly "Katisha" Daige, Jim Diette, Patty Eisenman, Tom Lackey, Mike McGovern, Marty McRae, Jack Phipps, & Dov Schiller.

Marty McRae will be the Band's Guest Conductor. Marty is a long time music teacher. He has taught in Shelburne, Enosburg, and now Burlington. Marty is familiar to area audiences as a trombonist with Jazzmosis, the Vermont Jazz Ensemble, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Galaxy Brass Quintet, and the Maple Leaf 7 among many other ensembles.

Jack Phipps will be the Band's Cornet Soloist. In addition to numerous recording sessions and live radio broadcasts, Jack has shared the stage with Bob Hope, Al Martino, George Jessell, Alabama, The Four Tops, The Temptations, and performed for three Presidents of the United States. Jack performs with Jazzmosis, the Swingin' Vermont Big Band, Satin & Steel, the Vermont Jazz Ensemble, Lyric Theatre Company and the Galaxy Brass Quintet and many others. An expected highlight of the show will be his performance of classic solo "Willow Echoes."

The audience can enjoy a bit of history at the concert. The Opera House was built in 1912 in the days before radio and television for traveling vaudeville and medicine shows, guest theater companies, and small orchestras and bands just like the Vermont Catamount Brass Band. The Opera House and its fine acoustics is ideally suited for a brass band, and indeed a brass band, such as the Johnson Serenade Band seen last year in the Union Bank calendar, may well have played there.

For more information on the Vermont Catamount Brass Band, contact Tom Lackey at PO Box 683, Stowe VT 05672, or call 253-2539, email <lackeytomliz@pwshift.com>, or visit <http://listen.to/catamountbrass>.