The Eastside Youth Concert Band Summer Band 2024
Monday, August 5-Friday, August 9, 7pm-9pm each evening.
Concert is open to the public at 8pm, Friday, August 9 at Pacific Cascade Middle School School in Issaquah!!
The summer band is geared toward advanced high school and exceptional middle school band members. Prospective band members must audition and be invited to join the band, academic year band members are automatically invited to join the band, but must still send in an audition for seating. Auditions are extended until **July 29**. Click here for information on auditions. Summer tuition is $140. Each additional sibling participant is $120.
This summer, we will:
Get our chops in shape!
Keep our chops in shape!
Test out our “chops” on some tunes we have never played before!
Play interesting and exciting music with peers who also love to play!
Meet other teens who enjoy the same things we do!
Hone our leadership and teamwork skills!
Not get up early! (unless we have jobs or other fun activities during the day)
2023’s Summer Repertoire:
Dedicatory Overture
by Clifton Williams
Australian Up-Country Tune
by Percy Grainger, arr. Glenn Bainum
Silverado
by Bruce Broughton, arr. Randol Bass
What’s up at the Symphony?
(Bugs Bunny’s Greatest Hits)
arr. Jerry Brubaker
Rolling Stones: The Music Tour
arr. Victor Lopez
Them Basses
A March
by G. H. Huffine
2022’s Summer Repertoire:
Sabre Dance
by Aram Khachaturian
arranged by Jack Bullock
Outdoor Overture
by Aaron Copland (1938)
March to the Scaffold
by Hector Berlioz
arranged by Michael Story
My Neighbor Totoro
Selections for Concert Band
1. Hey Let’s Go
2. The Village in May
3. Traveling Soot
4. The Path of Wind
5. Catbus
6. My Neighbor Totoro
by Joe Hisaishi, arr. by Yo Goto
[Summer 2020 & 2021 Cancelled due to Covid-19]
2019’s Summer Repertoire:
Baba Yetu, arr. by Wagner
Bugler’s Holiday, by Leroy Anderson
Archie Carman, Luke Kraynak, Veer Shukla
Carmina Burana, arr. Krance
- O Fortune, variable as the moon
- I lament Fortune’s blows
- Behold the Spring
- Were the wold all mine
- When we are in the Tavern
- I am suspended between love and chastity
- Sweetest Boy
- Hail to thee, most beautiful
- Fortune, Empress of the World
A Bernstein Tribute, arr. Grundman
“West Side Story”
(Prologue; Somewhere; Scherzo; Mambo)
“On The Town”
(The Great Lover; Times Square: 1944; Lonely Town)
Excerpts from The Overture to “Candide.”
Bond, James Bond, arr. by Bulla
James Bond Theme; Skyfall; Nobody Does It Better; Goldfinger and Live and Let Die
Hollywood Milestones, arr. Higgins
- Theme From ‘Jaws’
- Where Do I Begin (Love Story)
- Star Trek(R) The Motion Picture
- Raiders March
- Chariots Of Fire
- Back To The Future
- Theme From E.T. (The Extra-Terrestrial)
- Beauty And The Beast
- Theme From ‘Jurassic Park’
- Forrest Gump – Main Title (Feather Theme)
- Main Title – Apollo 13
2018’s Summer Repertoire:
Symphonic Suite from Star Trek, arr. by Bocook
Enterprising Young Men, To Boldly Go, End Credits
Pink Floyd Medley, arr. by Robert Fienga
Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Money, Another Brick in The Wall
Led Zeppelin on Tour, arr. by Patrick Roszell
Rock and Roll, Immigrant Song, Black Dog, Kashmir and Stairway to Heaven
Slava! by Bernstein, arr. by Grundman
Selections from Disney/Pixar’s Up, arr. by Michael Brown
We’re in the Club Now, The Spirit of Adventure, Russell Like Fine Whine
2017’s Summer Repertoire:
Salvation is Created (Tschesnokoff) arranged by Bruce Houseknecht
Gavornka Fanfare by Jack Stamp
Regenesis (Song of the Planet) by John Higgins
Bugler’s Holiday by Leroy Anderson, transcribed by Michael Edwards
Soloists: Kyle Jenkins, Rosie Allwright, Vincent Zhang
The Maker’s Mark Overture for Band by Ryan Nowlin
Folk Dances by Dmitri Shostakovitch arranged by Frank Erickson
At The Movies With John Williams
by John Williams, arranged by Justin Williams
featuring
The Planet Krypton (Superman)
Flight to Neverland (Hook), and
Somewhere in my Memory (Home Alone)