2012 John Philip Sousa National Honor Bands - New England Region
Harvard, MA
FAST FACTS:
Dates: April 19-21, 2012
Host/Rehearsal Location: The Bromfield School, 14 Massachusetts Avenue, Harvard, MA 01451
Concert Location: Richard Cronin Memorial Auditorium, The Bromfield School, 14 Massachusetts Avenue, Harvard, MA 01451
Festival Hotel: Holiday Inn Boxborough Woods, 242 Adams Place, Boxborough, MA 01719
Conductors:
Ms. Frances Shelton - Junior Honors Concert Band
Capt. Lewis J. Buckley - Senior Honors Symphonic Band
Dates: April 19-21, 2012
Host/Rehearsal Location: The Bromfield School, 14 Massachusetts Avenue, Harvard, MA 01451
Concert Location: Richard Cronin Memorial Auditorium, The Bromfield School, 14 Massachusetts Avenue, Harvard, MA 01451
Festival Hotel: Holiday Inn Boxborough Woods, 242 Adams Place, Boxborough, MA 01719
Conductors:
Ms. Frances Shelton - Junior Honors Concert Band
Capt. Lewis J. Buckley - Senior Honors Symphonic Band
CONCERT PROGRAM:
Junior Honors Concert Band
“Triton Fanfare” - Robert W Smith
“Spirit of the Wolf - Michael Oare
“Two Celtic Folksongs” - Paul Lavender
“Meeting at Tryon Palace” - Richard Saucedo
“Soaring” - Erik Morales
“Funkytown” - arr. Johnnie Vinson
Senior Honors Symphonic Band
“Sousa on the Hoof” - arr. Lewis J. Buckley
“Third Suite” - Robert Jager
“O Magnum Mysterium” - Morton Lauridson/arr. H. Robert Reynolds
“Wind in the Willows”, Mvt. IV, ‘The Return of Ulysses’ - Johan de Meij
“Turkey in the Straw - arr. Lewis J. Buckley
Junior Honors Concert Band
“Triton Fanfare” - Robert W Smith
“Spirit of the Wolf - Michael Oare
“Two Celtic Folksongs” - Paul Lavender
“Meeting at Tryon Palace” - Richard Saucedo
“Soaring” - Erik Morales
“Funkytown” - arr. Johnnie Vinson
Senior Honors Symphonic Band
“Sousa on the Hoof” - arr. Lewis J. Buckley
“Third Suite” - Robert Jager
“O Magnum Mysterium” - Morton Lauridson/arr. H. Robert Reynolds
“Wind in the Willows”, Mvt. IV, ‘The Return of Ulysses’ - Johan de Meij
“Turkey in the Straw - arr. Lewis J. Buckley
CONDUCTOR BIOS:
Ms. Frances Selton
Fran Shelton is Director of Bands at Hendersonville High School in Hendersonville, North Carolina. After graduating from Hendersonville High School, she received her Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Mars Hill College, graduating cum laude. She received her Masters of Music degree from Appalachian State University. Shelton holds membership in North Carolina Bandmasters Association, NEA, Women Band Directors International, National Band Association, and American School Band Directors Association.
Shelton has served as President of the Western North Carolina Bandmasters Association, President of the North Carolina Bandmasters Association, President of Women Band Directors International and is currently the Immediate Past President of the Women Band International. Shelton is the 1990 winner of the Award of Excellence in North Carolina-Western District, 1992 winner of the WBDI Scroll of Excellence, and 2004 WBDI Citation of Merit Award. In December 2009, Shelton was awarded the Silver Baton Award by the Women Band Directors International at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois.
She has served as clinician and adjudicator throughout the United States and has been staff conductor seven times on European Tours. Shelton has been director of bands at Hendersonville for the past 23 years. During her 23 years the HHS Bands have received numerous superior ratings with the concert, marching and jazz bands. The HHS Bands have performed at Billy Graham's Congressional Medal Ceremony, 1996 Olympic games, Gator, Sugar and Orange Bowls, Carnegie Hall in NYC, Symphony Hall in Boston, Mass., and Kennedy Center in 2008. Most recently the HHS Symphonic Band performed at Symphony Hall in Chicago in the spring of 2010.
Ms. Frances Selton
Fran Shelton is Director of Bands at Hendersonville High School in Hendersonville, North Carolina. After graduating from Hendersonville High School, she received her Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Mars Hill College, graduating cum laude. She received her Masters of Music degree from Appalachian State University. Shelton holds membership in North Carolina Bandmasters Association, NEA, Women Band Directors International, National Band Association, and American School Band Directors Association.
Shelton has served as President of the Western North Carolina Bandmasters Association, President of the North Carolina Bandmasters Association, President of Women Band Directors International and is currently the Immediate Past President of the Women Band International. Shelton is the 1990 winner of the Award of Excellence in North Carolina-Western District, 1992 winner of the WBDI Scroll of Excellence, and 2004 WBDI Citation of Merit Award. In December 2009, Shelton was awarded the Silver Baton Award by the Women Band Directors International at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois.
She has served as clinician and adjudicator throughout the United States and has been staff conductor seven times on European Tours. Shelton has been director of bands at Hendersonville for the past 23 years. During her 23 years the HHS Bands have received numerous superior ratings with the concert, marching and jazz bands. The HHS Bands have performed at Billy Graham's Congressional Medal Ceremony, 1996 Olympic games, Gator, Sugar and Orange Bowls, Carnegie Hall in NYC, Symphony Hall in Boston, Mass., and Kennedy Center in 2008. Most recently the HHS Symphonic Band performed at Symphony Hall in Chicago in the spring of 2010.
Capt. Lewis J. Buckley
Lewis J. Buckley was born in Columbus, Ohio, but considers himself a native of Florida, the state in which he grew up. He earned his undergraduate degree from the Eastman School of Music and his Master's degree from Connecticut College. While at Eastman, he earned the Performer's Certificate for outstanding performance on the trumpet, and he studied conducting and composition.
He enlisted into the U. S. Coast Guard Band in 1969, where he served as Principal Trumpet and Trumpet Soloist for six years. Then, in 1975, he became the Coast Guard Band's fifth Director at age 27, a post he held for over 29 years, becoming the longest-tenured conductor of a senior military band in American history.
Under his baton, the Coast Guard Band became a famed, national touring organization; released some 20 recordings; aired more taped and live concert broadcasts on National Public Radio than any other concert band, military or civilian, in the United States; and earned a reputation as one of the most accomplished wind bands in the world.
Since 2004, Buckley has been the Conductor and Artistic Director of the Manchester (CT) Symphony Orchestra. For fifteen years, he conducted the Hartford Symphony Orchestra in its annual Symphony on Ice/Toys for Tots program, and he has also conducted the Eastern Connecticut Symphony during its summer series.
In 2007, he was named Music Director and Conductor of the Metropolitan Wind Symphony, a superb community wind band in the Boston area. This remarkable group has an active commissioning program which has added works by Johan de Meij, Peter Schickele, James Curnow, Michael Gandolfi (by consortium) and, most recently, Chen Yi, to the wind repertoire.
As a conductor, Buckley brings to the podium more than 35 years' professional experience in an unusually wide range of music-making. He is equally at home conducting, writing, or performing, with bands, orchestras, and choruses, in all styles of music from classical to commercial to jazz. The guest artists whom he has conducted reflect his range of experience; they include Walter Cronkite, opera giant Placido Domingo, Lorrie Morgan and Lone Star of country fame, the Motown sound of Martha Reeves, and many others.
He continues to compose, arrange, and publish prolifically, bringing to his work the knowledge earned in 35 years on the podium, and his music is widely performed. He also remains an active trumpet soloist, frequently combining solo appearances with conducting, often in premiere performances of his own commissioned works.
Lewis J. Buckley was born in Columbus, Ohio, but considers himself a native of Florida, the state in which he grew up. He earned his undergraduate degree from the Eastman School of Music and his Master's degree from Connecticut College. While at Eastman, he earned the Performer's Certificate for outstanding performance on the trumpet, and he studied conducting and composition.
He enlisted into the U. S. Coast Guard Band in 1969, where he served as Principal Trumpet and Trumpet Soloist for six years. Then, in 1975, he became the Coast Guard Band's fifth Director at age 27, a post he held for over 29 years, becoming the longest-tenured conductor of a senior military band in American history.
Under his baton, the Coast Guard Band became a famed, national touring organization; released some 20 recordings; aired more taped and live concert broadcasts on National Public Radio than any other concert band, military or civilian, in the United States; and earned a reputation as one of the most accomplished wind bands in the world.
Since 2004, Buckley has been the Conductor and Artistic Director of the Manchester (CT) Symphony Orchestra. For fifteen years, he conducted the Hartford Symphony Orchestra in its annual Symphony on Ice/Toys for Tots program, and he has also conducted the Eastern Connecticut Symphony during its summer series.
In 2007, he was named Music Director and Conductor of the Metropolitan Wind Symphony, a superb community wind band in the Boston area. This remarkable group has an active commissioning program which has added works by Johan de Meij, Peter Schickele, James Curnow, Michael Gandolfi (by consortium) and, most recently, Chen Yi, to the wind repertoire.
As a conductor, Buckley brings to the podium more than 35 years' professional experience in an unusually wide range of music-making. He is equally at home conducting, writing, or performing, with bands, orchestras, and choruses, in all styles of music from classical to commercial to jazz. The guest artists whom he has conducted reflect his range of experience; they include Walter Cronkite, opera giant Placido Domingo, Lorrie Morgan and Lone Star of country fame, the Motown sound of Martha Reeves, and many others.
He continues to compose, arrange, and publish prolifically, bringing to his work the knowledge earned in 35 years on the podium, and his music is widely performed. He also remains an active trumpet soloist, frequently combining solo appearances with conducting, often in premiere performances of his own commissioned works.
FULL CONCERT PROGRAM:
For a copy of the complete concert program, including a list of participating schools, click here.
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