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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Austin Symphonic Band has been an Austin tradition for over thirty
years. The band was formed in the summer of 1981 by brass and
woodwind players of the Austin Community Orchestra (now the <a href="http://www.austincivicorchestra.org/" target="_blank">Austin Civic Orchestra</a>). They were seeking an opportunity for more playing
time than orchestral music typically provided. <a href="http://asbhistory.blogspot.com/p/frank-simon.html" target="_blank">R. Frank Simon</a> was
asked to be the conductor and the first Music Director.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">In a May 27, 2003 interview, R. Frank Simon describes the beginning of the Austin Symphonic Band</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Rehearsals
began in the summer of 1981. During this period the new performing group
called themselves “The New River City Wind Ensemble” and gave
concerts at Highland Mall, Barton Creek Mall, Westwood High School,
and at the Hillside Theater in Zilker Park.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
June 1982 Mr. Simon resigned in order to take a new position with the
Performing Arts Center of the University of Texas at Austin. David
Parker, the Principal Horn of the Austin Community Orchestra, served
as Interim Conductor for a concert at the Hillside Theater in June
1982 and a Halloween concert in the Capitol Rotunda. While the
members sought a permanent conductor, the group’s name was changed
to “Austin Symphonic Band” as it was felt the new name more
closely identified the nature and intent of the musicians. <a href="http://asbhistory.blogspot.com/p/randoll-bass.html">Randol A.Bass</a> was invited to conduct a series of Christmas concerts in various
malls in Austin and was then elected permanent Music Director in
January 1983. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">During
1983, 1984, and 1985, Mr. Bass led the band at four outdoor concerts
at Zilker Park, nine indoor concerts at Bates Recital Hall at the
University of Texas at Austin, and at special concerts at Austin’s
Laguna Gloria Art Museum and at Taylor (Texas) High School, the first
Austin Symphonic Band concert outside of Austin. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">For
Randol Bass’ first concert as ASB Music Director, he played George
Gershwin’s <i>Rhapsody in Blue</i>.</span></div>
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Paredes conducts</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">At
the end of 1985 Randol Bass left the music directorship to undertake
other endeavors. The board of directors elected <a href="http://www.austinsymphonicband.org/Directors/" target="_blank">Richard L. Floyd</a> as
the third Music Director. Mr. Floyd’s first rehearsal with the band
was on January 7, 1986 at the Pierce Junior High School cafeteria. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Richard
Floyd conducts Norman Dello Joio’s <i>Scenes from “The Louvre”</i> during his first concert as ASB Music Director, March 22, 1986</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.austinsymphonicband.org/Directors/" target="_blank">William Haehnel</a> was appointed as Assistant Music Director in 2003.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Austin Symphonic Band performs music from the concert wind band
repertoire. When the band first formed in 1981, it owned no music.
Funds to purchase music were nearly non-existent. The first music
director Frank Simon used the words “beg and borrow” to
indicate the difficulties in getting music. Only by taking advantage
of contacts in the Austin concert band community, could the early
music directors assemble the music to play for a concert. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Then,
in 1988 music director Richard Floyd became acquainted with John H.
Hansen, president of Music Photo International. Mr. Hansen had
accumulated a large concert band music library during his 18 years of
teaching high school band and conducting a community band in
Connecticut. At some point after changing professions, he was looking
for a good home for the library. Through his business of taking
photographs of musical groups at conferences, he became aware of the
Austin Symphonic Band and generously offered it to the band via Mr.
Floyd. The library that John Hansen donated to the Austin Symphonic
Band became the core around which today’s library is built. As the
financial conditions of the band improved, new music could gradually
be purchased for a few selections on some concerts. Today, the band
has over 800 pieces in its library, which occupies thirteen filing
cabinets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Austin Symphonic Band has undertaken several activities during the
last three decades: </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Entertain
the Public with Live Music Performances, </b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Bring
Guest Soloists and Musical Groups to Austin, </b></span>
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New Music,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Musically
Support the Austin Community, </b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Perform
with other Austin Musical Organizations, </b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Stimulate
Austin Student Music Education, </b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Encourage
the National Community Band Movement, </b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Provide
an Outlet for Wind and Percussion Musicians.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Entertain
the Public with Live Music Performances </b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">–
The primary purpose of the Austin Symphonic Band has been to
entertain Austin audiences and share the wind band repertoire with
them. Between 1981 and 2013, the band has given more than <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sj_4graWjKwkKynSUzbpRLVNrHc-NBhOGzaORL-hJs0/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">300 concerts</a>. For most of its three decade history, each year the band
has typically given three indoor concerts, three Austin outdoor
concerts – usually at the outdoor theater in Zilker Park, and
concerts before and during fireworks at Independence Day celebrations
in Round Rock and Bastrop. Over the years, the band has spread its
music around central Texas by giving full-personnel indoor concerts
at towns near Austin including Taylor, Cedar Park, Pflugerville,
Georgetown, Dripping Springs, Killeen, Florence, Kyle, Marble Falls,
Rockdale, San Marcos, Westlake, and Lakeway. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
addition to the regular schedule, the band has frequently presented
large formal indoor concerts for the public. The December 8, 1984
Christmas concert of the band with the First United Methodist Church
sanctuary choir at Bates Recital Hall on the campus of the University
of Texas at Austin was recorded, videotaped, edited, and broadcast by
KVUE television in prime time on Christmas Eve. The resulting
30-minute </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Seasonal
Sounds</i></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> special </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">won an Angel,
a public television award for distinguished family programming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">December 24, 1984 KVUE-TV broadcast, Bates Recital Hall, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Good Christian Men Rejoice,</i> Randol Bass conducts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
February 1991, guest conductor James Saeid led the band in a
re-creation of a Sousa-style concert. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">“</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Sousa
Spectacular</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">” </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">was played
to a sold-out audience in Austin’s Palmer Auditorium. The guest
soloist was Brian Bowman, euphonium, playing Simone Mantia's <i>All Those Endearing
Young Charms</i> and Herbert L. Clarke’s <i>Carnival of Venice</i>. Mr. Saeid’s wife Helen led the audience in an old-fashioned
sing-a-long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
November 2010, the Austin Civic Orchestra and the Austin Symphonic
Band gave a joint concert at the newly built Long Center for the
Performing Arts, which replaced Palmer Auditorium. The band’s
special guest group was the City Limits Brass made up of University
of Texas Butler School of Music students Jesse Cook, Chris Heldt,
Kevin Miescke, Joe Brown, and James Saliers, who played Michael
Sweeney’s arrangement of Suite for <i>Brass Quintet and Concert
Band </i>from Bernstein’s </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><u>Mass</u></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Premier
New Music</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> – One of
the goals of the Austin Symphonic Band has been to bring new music to
its audiences. More than 25% of the pieces performed at its concerts
have been less than 6 years old at the time of the performance. The
band has achieved this high level of new music in concerts through
the music director’s vigilance in searching for recently published
and even about-to-be-published works and a band budget that permits
new music purchases. As a result of these ongoing activities, Austin
Symphonic Band audiences hear freshly written or arranged music, as
well as the familiar standards. Occasionally, the band plays pieces that
have not been previously performed in Austin or Texas by any group.
For example, the band’s November 21, 1993 performance of deMeij’s
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><u>Symphony No. 1 “Lord
of the Rings”</u></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> was an
Austin premier. Sometimes the music performed is so new it causes a
problem; Mr. Floyd had to program the band’s performance of John
Mackey’s <i>Sheltering Sky</i> near the end of the April 21, 2012
concert to prevent it from being played before the intended world
premier, which was scheduled elsewhere on the same day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Bring
Guest Soloists and Musical Groups to Austin</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
– The band has frequently brought in guest soloists and groups to
perform with the band. With these collaborations, Austin audiences
have had the opportunity to see and hear live performances by these
talented musicians. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Rhythm
and Brass was one of the earliest outside groups to perform with the
band. Their precise playing and entertaining presentation of their
music is delightful. Soloists who have performed with the band
include Charles Villarubia, tuba; Wiff Rudd, trumpet; Brent Phillips,
trombone; Dale Underwood, alto saxophone; Jim Walker, flute; Lynn
Klock, saxophone; and Michael Sizer, clarinet. All have special
stories. Craig Morris, former principal trumpet of the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, performed Broughton’s <i>Excursions</i> with the
band at the Long Center for the Performing Arts in 2012. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
band has also performed with guest soloists who happen to live in the
Austin area. Soprano Claire Vangelisti has been accompanied by the
band on several occasions. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">University
of Texas professor of trumpet Ray Sasaki performed Robert Russell
Bennett’s <i>Rose Variations </i>with the band in 2003. Former local
television news anchor and tenor Ron Oliveira sang <i>What Child Is
This? </i>with the Austin Symphonic Band accompanying him at the 1984
Christmas concert.</span></div>
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Support the Austin Community</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
– As one of the important musical organizations in the Austin area,
the Austin Symphonic Band has had the opportunity and the honor to
serve the community in various ways besides just performing concerts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
1986 the band began a long relationship with <a href="http://kmfa.org/" target="_blank">KMFA-FM</a>, Austin’s
classical music radio station. That autumn the band played a concert
in the station’s parking lot to support the station’s
fund-raising musical garage sale of used electronics and recordings.
September 1987 marked the live broadcast of the 30-minute concert –
the first live broadcast for the band and a live broadcast of
a large musical ensemble for KMFA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">After
the 1991 war </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">“</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Desert Storm” in Kuwait and Iraq, Texas Governor Ann Richards presided
over the state’s welcome-home of the victorious Texas troops. The
Austin Symphonic Band, which was selected to provide music for the
event, was seated on a special stage on the grounds of the Texas
State Capitol with the yellow-ribbon-wrapped capitol dome in the
background.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> The band and the Austin Choral Union accompanied soprano Barbara Conrad as she sang <i>The Battle
Hymn of the Republic.</i></span><br />
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Floyd conducts <i>The Battle Hymn of the Republic</i> featuring Barbara
Conrad, the Austin Choral Union, and the Austin Symphonic Band, June
30, 1991.</span><br />
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winter the Austin Police Department sponsors the Blue Santa project,
which provides Christmas gifts for needy children. From 1990 to 1995
the Austin Symphonic Band gave Blue Santa “kick-off” concerts in
Bates Recital Hall at the University of Texas at Austin. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">SSgt. Sam Cox was the announcer for each concert.</span><br />
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memorable pieces include <i>Tom Sawyer’s Saturday </i>narrated by
Cactus Pryor, </span><br />
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Pryor narrates John Dankworth’s <i>Tom Sawyer’s Saturday</i> November 24, 1991. Richard Floyd conducts.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Orff’s </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><u>Carmina
Burana</u></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">, John Moss’ <i>The Night Before Christmas</i> narrated by Cathy Conley of KXAN-TV, <i>Mars, the Bringer of War </i>from Holst’s </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><u>The
Planets</u></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">, and the
Austin premier of deMeij’s </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><u>Symphony
No. 1 “The Lord of the Rings”</u></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
with Don Toner of the Live Oak Theater acting out the narrations
preceding each movement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">On
April 24, 1999, the Austin Symphonic Band, under the direction of Van
Henry, provided the music – actually, an entire concert – for the
dedication ceremony at the new Barbara Jordan Passenger Terminal at
Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Dedication remarks were made
by mayor Kirk Watson, U.S. representative Lloyd Doggett, former U.S.
representative J.J. “Jake” Pickle, and former Austin mayors Bruce
Todd and Roy Butler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Annual
recognition of our nation’s birth traditionally contains fireworks
and patriotic music. The Austin Symphonic Band is proud to have
provided concerts before and during fireworks for thousands of people
every year at the Independence Day celebrations in Bastrop since
1991 and Round Rock since 1994. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>The Stars and Stripes Forever </i>with fireworks, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Round Rock Old Settler's Park, July 4, 1996, Richard Floyd conducts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
band has frequently been invited to provide music at Memorial Day
observances at the Texas State Cemetery. A 35-member subset of the
Austin Symphonic Band, known as the MicroBand, forms to play special
events, such as these, where the full 90-piece band is not required.
The MicroBand also plays the Christmas carol Sing-Along concerts
(with hot chocolate for the audience) in December at the Trail of
Lights in Zilker Park and concerts at retirement homes and children’s
hospitals. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Perform
with other Austin Musical Organizations</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
– The Austin Symphonic Band is musically active in the Austin
community, not just by presenting its own concerts, but also by
joining with other Austin arts groups to bring varied entertainment
to audiences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Austin Symphonic Band is occasionally asked for musicians to play in
operas that call for </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>banda</i></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
music. Members have performed off stage in Austin Lyric Opera
productions of </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><u>Rigoletto</u></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
(1995) and </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><u>Tannhaeuser</u></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
(1996), and on stage in full costume in Act II of </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><u>La
Boheme</u></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> (1992, 1997,
2009). </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The Austin Symphonic Band also made up the fully uniformed band
marching and playing at the conclusion of Austin Musical Theater’s
2000 production of </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><u>The
Music Man</u></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
its close relationship with KMFA-FM, the radio station staff members
have sometimes been special guests. In 1991 radio announcer Randy
Harriman narrated Copland’s <i>Lincoln Portrait </i>while the band
was conducted by Peter Bay, newly appointed conductor of the <a href="http://austinsymphony.org/" target="_blank">Austin Symphony Orchestra</a>. In 2011 David Crews narrated Walters’ <i>Duty,
Honor, Country</i>, which is based on General Douglas MacArthur’s
1962 West Point speech.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
concert “</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">A Highland
Fling”</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> combined the
bagpipes, costumes, and dancing of the Silver Thistle Pipe and Drums
and the Hill Country Highland Dancers with the Austin Symphonic Band.
The Austin Handbell Ensemble and the St. Martins Lutheran Church Bell
Choir have performed with the Austin Symphonic Band to add sparkle to
Christmas concerts. For the large-scale work </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><u>The
Many Moods of Christmas</u></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
the voices of the Austin Civic Chorus joined the Austin Symphonic
Band with the Visser-Rowland pipe organ at Bates Recital Hall on the
University of Texas at Austin campus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Stimulate
Austin Student Music Education</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
– One of the goals of the Austin Symphonic Band has been to
stimulate and support music education in the Austin area. Many Austin
Symphonic Band members make use of their musical knowledge to
volunteer as judges during with the annual auditions for regional,
area, and all-state band seats. Members also volunteer their skills
to help make up the workshop band that the University of Texas at
Austin uses for its annual Conductor’s Workshop. Aspiring Texas
school band conductors are critiqued on their conducting skills and
given suggestions for improvements while conducting the workshop
band.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
band has also advanced music education by giving joint concerts with
school bands and concerts where band students are interspersed within
the Austin Symphonic Band during the performance. One of the early
outside-of-Austin concerts was given in 1990 at Rockdale (Texas) High
School. For the last three numbers, members of the Rockdale High
School Band joined the Austin Symphonic Band. The MicroBand has given
joint concerts and mingled-seating concerts with Mendez Middle School
and Pierce Middle School music students and a wind instrument
demonstration concert for St. Gabriel Catholic Elementary School. The
Dripping Springs High School brass section created antiphonal brass
effects for the Finale of Kalinnikov’s </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><u>Symphony
No. 1 in G minor</u></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.
Showing another side of concert-making opportunities, the band was
joined by Travis High School’s strings-and-brass mariachi group
Mariachi Rebeldes del Sur to create the specialty concert “</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Viva
Mexico!</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">” In June 1993,
the band entertained the parents and children of Metz Elementary
School with a special Friday evening concert featuring the music of
Mexico and Spain. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">For
many Austin Symphonic Band concerts that have ticket sales, the band
offers free tickets to Austin Independent School District wind band
students. The band arranges for master classes given in Austin
schools by guest soloists who will be performing at upcoming Austin
Symphonic Band concerts. This gives students an opportunity to meet
and learn from professional musicians and then, soon after, to see
them perform.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Austin Symphonic Band also gives music students attending the
University of Texas the opportunity to perform as soloists with a large
ensemble accompaniment. Recent concerts have included undergraduates
Alex Glen, Josh Balleza, Matt Carr, and Jeff Arredondo playing
Koetsier’s <i>Concertino for Trombone Quartet</i>, Daniel Frost
playing Broughton’s </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Tuba
Concerto</i></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">, and soprano
Stephanie Lange singing the beginning and end of Ticheli’s <i>Angels
in the Architecture</i> from high in Dell Concert Hall at Austin’s
Long Center for the Performing Arts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Encourage
the National Community Band Movement</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
– A largely unrecognized musical resource produced by our primary
and secondary schools is the large number of adults who have
instrumental skills but no longer play their instruments. To
encourage the formation and development of more and better community
bands, the Austin Symphonic Band has actively demonstrated the
potential for amateur adult musicians to form adult bands for the
enjoyment of making and listening to music in communities all across
the country. To make this demonstration, the band applied to,
received invitations from, and performed at several major national
music conventions that are attended by composers, arrangers, and
conductors. Invitations are made only to the best-sounding groups who
can deliver polished performances. In some cases the Austin Symphonic
Band’s performance was the first time a community band had been on
the program.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
1989 the band first appeared in Chicago at the Midwest International
Band and Orchestra Clinic (Mark Custom Records recording MW89-MC-23). The Dallas Brass was featured with the
band, and H. Robert Reynolds, Director of Bands at the University of
Michigan, was one of the guest conductors. The 1997 Midwest
performance featured guest soloist Patrick Sheridan on tuba (Mark Custom Records recording MW97-MC-26). Each
Midwest conference has a special clinic given late on one evening.
The 1997 Midnight Madness clinic “Looking Beyond the Notes” was
given by composer Frank Ticheli with the Austin Symphonic Band
playing excerpts from <i>Cajun Folk Songs</i>, <i>Amazing Grace</i>, <i>Sun Dance</i>, and <i>Blue Shades</i>. The 2007 performance
featured Rhythm and Brass (Mark Custom Records recording 7322-MCD). At that conference Keith Brion presented
the clinic “Keys to Unlocking the Secrets of Sousa Marches” (Mark Custom Records recording 7336-MCD) using the full Austin Symphonic Band
to demonstrate his points. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
band was invited to perform at the 1993 and 2006 meetings of the
American Bandmasters Association. The 1993 New Orleans concert
included many well-known guest conductors including John Paynter,
Director of Bands at Northwestern University and Music Director of
the Northshore Concert Band. Frank Ticheli conducted his <i>Vesuvius</i> in the 2006 ABA Richardson, Texas concert.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Saxophonist
Lynn Klock was the featured soloist at the band’s concert at the
2004 Western International Band Clinic in Seattle. The band
accompanied him for Catherine McMichael’s <i>Sapphire</i> and
Ferrandino’s arrangement of <i>Hora Staccato</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/asbhistory1/home/sound-files/Sound6_Sapphire-040222.mp3">Sapphire</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Catherine
McMichael’s <i>Sapphire</i>, Lynn Klock, saxophone, February 22,
2004. Richard Floyd conducts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Provide
an Outlet for Wind and Percussion Musicians</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
– For over thirty years Austin-area wind and percussion musicians
have been welcome to sit in on rehearsals of the Austin Symphonic
Band. Auditions have never been required to become a member. However,
membership in the organization has always </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">been subject to the
availability of an opening. The resulting si</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">ze of the band has been
consistently in the 70 to 90 member range. The membership is a sample
of the wide range of occupations of Austin-area residents. The
membership is always changing. A study of the <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VGJ8SjHJu9FCy0p69v6TT1bvSSeNZD54CwH3GoJxTEo/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">25-year roster</a> from 1982 to
2006 shows the band has over 750 alumni. The earliest known band
roster (June 1982) indicates that four early members are still in
the band today: Beverly (Foreman) Lowak (flute), Jerry Schwab (euphonium), Kar</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">en </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">VanHooser (piccolo
and band music librarian), and Chuck Ellis (horn and band equipment
transportation manager). </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="s1">Since 1981 over 100 members have served as band </span><span class="s2">officers and served on the <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b9hWsw7UU9WN46NPh9AKzw9VE7KTqr-j_NsoYUA3Qg0/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Board of Directors</a></span><span class="s1"> to support the band’s organization.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Awards
and Recognitions</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> –
At the 1989 Father’s Day concert in Zilker Park, Austin City
Council member Smoot Carl Mitchell presented
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">the Council’s proclamation </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">making the Austin Symphonic Band the Official Band of the City of
Austin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In
Palmer Auditorium, at the March 1994 Sousa-style concert, Noah Lee,
president of the Association of Concert Bands, presented the Sudler Scroll award </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">to the Austin Symphonic Band on behalf of the John Philip Sousa
Foundation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Noah Lee presents the Sudler Scroll, March 8, 1994.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Texas
governor and future U.S. President George W. Bush recognized the
selection of the Austin Symphonic Band to perform at the 1997 Midwest
International Band and Orchestra Clinic in a letter that was included
in the concert program.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Financial
Status</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> –The band
operates on funds received from concert ticket receipts, member dues,
private individual donations, business donations, and cultural
contracts from the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division.
The Austin Symphonic Band was incorporated as a 501c3 tax-exempt
organization on April 26, 1984. Tax-deductible donations are welcome
and may be sent to: Austin Symphonic Band, P.O. Box 6472, Austin,
Texas 78762-6472. </span>
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– The archives of the Austin Symphonic Band are kept at the Austin
History Center, 810 Guadalupe Street, Austin, Texas.</span></div>
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