This Is The Wheaton Municipal Band!
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Discography

In Honor of Our Mentors
Recorded live on December 22, 2012 at McCormick Place, Chicago IL, at the The 66th Annual Midwest Clinic An International Band & Orchestra Conference

Bruce Moss, Conductor
Craig Kirchhoff, Col. Arnald D. Gabriel. Myron Welch, Richard L. Blatti, Guest Conductors
Dale Underwood, University of Miami, Saxophone Soloist &
John Hagstrom, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Trumpet Soloist

1. Revelation March - William Paris Chambers/ed John R. Bourgeois
2. The Maker's Mark Overture for Band - Ryan Nowlin
3. Flegy for Albinoni - Shelley Hanson
Craig Kirchhoff, Conductor
4. Suite from West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein/arr. Michael Davis
World Premiere Performance
Dale Underwood, University of Miami, Saxophone Soloist
Col. Arnald D. Gabriel, Conductor
5. Interruptions - Steven Bryant
6. Jubilee (Variations on "Saints Bound for Heaven") - James Curnow
Myron Welch, Conductor
7. The Purple Pageant March - Karl L. King/ed. John P. Paynter
Richard L.Blatti, Conductor
8. Portrait of a Trumpet - Sammy Nestico
John Hagstrom, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Trumpet Soloist
9. Carnival, from La Fiesta Mexicana - H. Owen Reed
10. Zenyatta "Galop"  - Frederick A. Speck

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Strike Up The Band

The CD selections are from rehearsal and live performance recordings in Edman Chapel at Wheaton College. Highlights include the world premiere performance of "Mystic Warriors" by Alan Vizzutti  celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Wheaton Municipal Band, and two selections by Richard and Shawn Mathey, aka "The Two Tenors".

1 Strike Up The Band
2 Overture, The Tsar's Bride
3 Vilia, from the Merry Widow
4 Hall of Fame March
5 God of Our Fathers
6 The Gliding Girl
7 Dance of the Jesters
8 Mystic Warriors
9 O Sole Mio
10 Without a Song
11 Danse Bacchanale, from Sampson et Dalila
12 Irving Berlin, the Early Years
13 Funiculi, Funicula
14 America, the Beautiful

This IS the Wheaton Municipal Band

1 Concert March, Kiwanisca (world premier performance)
2 Celebrations
3 American Salute
4 Whean You Wish Upon A Star
5 Ode for Trumpet (Alan Vizzutti, trumpet)
6 Carnival of Venice (Alan Vizzutti, trumpet)
7 Stars and Stripes Forever
8 Gershwin! (Tom Birkner, vocal)
9 Esprit de Corps
10 I Feel a Song Coming On (Kristen Rosenwinkel, vocal)
11 That's Entertainment

Live at Pick-Staiger Hall
Release Date:1984
LP record. Recorded Live at the First Annual Adult Band Concert, July 27, 1984, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern University.

1 Boston Pops March - Ernest Gold, trans by Hale Smith
2 Toccata - Girolamo Frescobaldi, arr by Earl Slocum
3 The Blue Bells of Scotland (Thomas Runty, euphonium) - Arthur Pryor, arr by E. M. Pearson
4 Polka and Fugue, from Schwanda the Bagpiper - Jaromir Weinberger, trans by Glenn Cliffe Bainum
5 Washington Grays March - Claudio S. Grafulla, ed by Frederick Fennell
6 Highlights from "Porgy and Bess" - George Gershwin, arr by Robert Russell Bennett
7 Armenian Dances, Part 1 - Alfred Reed