VOL. 6, NO. 7
DEC. 18, 1964

Band reviews hit musicals
Modern and classical music played by big bands and small woodwind groups will be heard Sunday, Jan. 17th, when the Maine West Music Department puts on its annual Band Concert. The concert will start promptly at 3 p.m. in the school auditorium.

Mr. Robert Kuite, Chairman of the Music Department, has planned a program sure to please all types of music lovers. There will be the circus style and the symphony style of music. You will hear the sound of a big brass marching band and the quiet organ-like sound of a concert band.

Making its first appearance of this current concert season, since placing fourth at the National Band Contest in Milwaukee, the Concert Band- will present a well rounded program. For its part of the program the Concert Band will play "The London Symphony" by Franz Joseph Haydn, arranged for bands by Merle J. Issac; "Music for a Ceremony" by John J. Morrissey; "March to the Scaffold" by Hector Berlioz;

Philip Sousa; "Dance for Three" "Sabre and Spurs" by John Philby Gioacchino Rossini; and "Circus Extravaganza" by Harold L. Walters. Being featured on the program will be musical highlights from South Pacific by Rogers and Hammerstein. South Pacific has been 		chosen as this years musical production to be presented on Apr. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Musical highlights from the movie, Mary Poppins, will also be featured. Mary Poppins is the story of an English nursemaid and the children she cares for. The famous Maine West drum section will be featured in Mary Poppins.

The combined Cadet and Intermediate Bands will take part in the concert. Along with them will be various selected solos and ensembles made up from all the various groups.

All Maine West Band members are strongly urged to take part in the various ensembles besides their regular band work. Various types are the woodwind choir, the woodwind quintet, the brass choir, and the drum ensemble. Band members are also urged to try out for the Show Band, South Pacific, and the V-Show.

Those who take part in ensemble groups will be able to tryout for the Fine Arts Festival, which is held in the spring, and for the Ensemble Workshop with Evanston High School, also held in the spring.

Maine West students wishing to start their own combo are welcomed to do so. Mr. Kuite must hear the groups before any jobs at school will be permitted.