The East Woodstock Cornet Band
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1992
Centennial Season Concert at the Woodstock Fair
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1992 was the East
Woodstock Cornet Bands 100th season, and, in honor of this achievement, we
preformed a special concert on the main stage at the Woodstock Fair that
year. The links below provide you with a sample of that concert. The
source was a tape of the concert recorded by the Fair's PA technician. The
files have been compressed to a more manageable size for downloading,
resulting in some degradation of sound quality. The file size is indicated
next to each link. Windows Media Player or a similar utility is required
to download and play them.
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- Concert Notes -
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1 (622k) is a parade march medley. This is
what you would hear if you were walking down the street
with the band in one of our many Memorial Day or other parades, complete with drum cadence.
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2 (356k), "Bandology", is a concert piece by Eric
Osterling, a high school band director from Western Connecticut. The
selection has a nice sound and was often featured in our outdoor concerts.
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3 (240k), "the Surry With the Fringe On Top", comes from the
musical "Oklahoma". Show tunes were often included in concerts,
with this piece and it's horse hoof beats being particularly appropriate
to the Quiet Corner of Connecticut.
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4 (329k), "The Voice of the Guns", is a typical English
march by Kenneth Alford. Alford is recognized as the English march king,
much like our John Phillip Sousa, and is more famous for his march
"Colonel Bogey", which we also performed.
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5 (295k) is the "Beer Barrel Polka", always a crowd pleaser.
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6 (348k), the "National Emblem March", is well known, and
features the opening melody from the "Star Spangled Banner" in
the first section.
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7 (325k), "Them Basses", by E. E. Bagley, features the lower
brass, always a strong section in the Cornet Band.
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8 (357k) was usually programmed near the end of a concert, and
introduced in this way: "Well, we only have about three and a half
minutes left and a whole lot of music we would like to play for you today.
Overtures, show tunes, folk songs, marches, dixieland - but there's not
enough time. So what we're going to do is play more than thirty songs in
the next three and a quarter minutes! Think we can? (pause) Here is the
"Instant Concert" performed in - wow, only three minutes
left!" (this time we made it in less that 3
minutes)
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9 (292k) is The "Washington Post" march by Sousa. Our
concerts usually ended with this or another march from our own American march king.
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| concert notes by Peter Morse
- 25 year member and conductor of the Cornet Band |
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