The Wind Orchestra performed with Miss America 2012 Laura Kaeppeler, a 2010 Carthage alumna, during her homecoming concert.In March 2012, the Wind Orchestra toured the Midwest and stopped in Hillsboro, Ill., to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Carthage's Kenosha campus.While in Hillsboro, the Wind Orchestra visited the Hillsboro Public Library, located across the street from the site of the original Hillsboro Academy.Wind Orchestra Director James Ripley with Bishop John Roth and Pastor Ken Sandlin at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Hillsboro.Music major Nathan Larsen, '12, conducted the Carthage Wind Orchestra when they performed at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Hillsboro.The Wind Orchestra performs a concert in A.F. Siebert Chapel in fall 2010.In April 2010, the Wind Orchestra performed an accompaniment for the classic film "Metropolis."They performed "Metropolis" at several historic theatres in the Midwest.In January 2011, the Wind Orchestra returns to Japan for the third time, performing in Kurashiki and Kochi.While in Japan, Carthage Band members visit important historical sites. Pictured above at a garden in Nara.Jim Ripley leads the Wind Orchestra in "Take Me Out to the Concert: Nine Innings of Baseball Music," a Patio Pops concert held in September 2010.Paul Hegland, Special Assistant to the President, narrates "Casey at the Bat" for the Fall Pops Concert.The Wind Orchestra performs an accompaniment to "Metropolis" in April 2010.

Music

Carthage Wind Orchestra

2010-2011 Repertoire

New Student Convocation
Felix Mendelssohn — Two Marches
Hermann Regner — Six Låndler

Patio Pops Concert — Take Me Out to the Ballgame
John Philip Sousa — The National Game
Leroy Anderson — The Minstrel Boy
Randol Alan Bass — Casey at the Bat
Clark Gesner, arr. James Burden — You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
William Schuman — The Band Song
Charles Ives, arr. James Sinclair — March VI: Here's to Good Old Yale

The Roaring Twenties
Dmitri Shostakovich — Suite No. 1 for Jazz Orchestra
George Antheil — A Jazz Symphony
Danny Elfman, arr. Richard Saucedo — A Brass Thing

Homecoming Concert
Richard Baller — A Lincoln Sett (Civil War Music)
Tom Vignieri — American Hymn

Vive le France Concert
Darius Milhaud — Suite Francaise
Francis Poulenc — Suite Francaise
Hector Berlioz — Funeral and Triumphal Symphony
Francois Gossec — Marche Lugubre
Etienne Mehul — Classic Overture
Robert Jager — Joan of Arc

Japan Tour Concert
Shin’ya Takahashi — Jalan Jalan
Tom Vignieri — American Hymn
Dana Wilson — Day Dreams
Carl Reinecke, arr Jose Schyns — Concerto in D Major
    Melissa Snoza, faculty soloist
H. Owen Reed — La Fiesta Mexicana

Lakeside Band Festival
Dana Wilson, guest conductor
Dana Wilson — Day Dreams
Carl Reinecke, arr Jose Schyns — Concerto in D Major
Dana Wison — Shortcut Home
Dana Wilson — Odysseus and the Sirens
Dana Wilson — to set the darkness echoing

Guest Artist Series
Igor Stravinsky — Piano Concerto
    Deborah Masloski, faculty soloist
Camille Saint Saens — Occident et Orient
Robert Sheldon — Palimpsest
Michael Colgrass — The Beethoven Machine
Greg Danner — Walls of Zion
Percy Grainger — Country Gardens, Ye Banks and Braes, They Gypsy's Wedding Day

Farewell Concert
James Barnes — A Light in the Wilderness
Andrew Boysen, Jr. — I Am
Gustav Mahler — "Urlicht" from Symphony No. 2
Ed Gregson — Tuba Concerto
    Taylor Weinstock, student soloist
Yasuhide Ito— Gloriosa
Franz Joseph Haydn — "Farewell" Symphony
Phillip Sparkle — The Sun will Rise Again

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