High School Band Concert on Wednesday

The Music Department of Millburn High School proudly presents the annual Spring Band Concert on Wednesday, May 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium. This concert is free and open to the public. Ensembles are under the direction of Ms. Mindy Scheierman, Director of Bands and Mr. Matthew Spatz, Associate Director of Bands.  

The Concert Band, an ensemble of ninth grade musicians, will open the concert with Of Spirit and Splendor by Charles Rochester Young, followed by one of Bruce Yurko’s exciting new pieces, Old Castles. The ensemble will end their set with Grizzly Bear Rag by Timothy Broege, conducted by Ms. Michelle Breitenbach, student teacher, clarinetist, and music education major at Ithaca College. 

The Wind Ensemble, an advanced ensemble of accelerated level band students in grades nine through twelve, will perform Crest of Honor, a concert march for band by David R. Gillingham, and conclude the first half of the concert with the first movement of the suite from the ballet Pineapple Poll, based on the music of Arthur Sullivan.  

Symphonic Bands Blue and White, comprised of students in grades ten, eleven, and twelve, will perform on the second half of the concert. Symphonic Band Blue will begin the second half with works by Randall D. Standridge, William E. Rhoads and Erik Morales. Their set will feature a transcription of one of Percy Grainger’s melodies, Six Dukes Went A Fishin’.  Symphonic Band White will feature music by Steven Reineke, William Himes, and David R. Holsinger. The concert will conclude with Summer Resounding! by Brian Balmages.

All senior band members will be recognized at this concert for their vast contributions to the music department. The MHS Music Boosters will be selling refreshments and accepting donations and memberships throughout the evening. The concert will be professionally recorded and CD orders will be accepted in the lobby at the concert.

- Millburn Music Department