GSCB 2022-23 Season

MMC Autumn Concert

Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022 @ 6pm
Joint concert with Grand Street Concert Band and Kings County Concert Band


Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

  • Halcyon Hearts: An Overture for Love
    Katajh Copley

    Be Thou My Vision 
    Traditional Irish Tune arranged by Travis J. Cross

    American Hymnsong Suite
    Dwayne S. Milburn

    Psalm for Band
    Vincent Persichetti

Columbia University 2023 Festival of Winds

Sunday, April 2, 2023 @ 1:30pm
Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony


Location: Roone Arledge Auditorium at Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University (W. 116th St @ Broadway).

  • Rise

    Adam Schoenberg

    Mock Morris

    Percy Grainger, arr. Joesph Kreines

    Letters

    Kelijah Dunton

    Postcard form Sequoia

    Nicole Piunna


GSCB 2021-22 Season

MMC Winter Concert

Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 @ 6pm
Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony and Kings County Concert Band
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Flutter
William Pitts

Elegy 
Matt Klohs

Alegre
Tani León

A Place in Time
Kelijah Dutton

A Song for Tomorrow
Kevin Day

Modern Wind Symphony

Saturday, March 26, 2022 @ 6pm
Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony and Kings County Concert Band
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

In Two Places
Haley Woodrow

Here We Rest
Anthony Barfield

Suite from MASS
Leonard Bernstein, arr. Michael Sweeney
Featuring the Hudson Brass Quintet from West Point

MMC Spring Concert

Saturday, May 21, 2022 @ 6pm
Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony and Kings County Concert Band
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

And the grass sings on the meadows
Travis J. Cross

American Elegy
Frank Ticheli

First Suite in E-flat for Military Band
Gustav Holst

A Mother of a Revolution!
Omar Thomas

Cave of the Winds
Robert Nathaniel Dett


GSCB 2020-21 Season

In late 2020, the members of MMC came together to play Stillwater by Kelijah Dunton in this virtual band performance.

Kelijah is a graduate of the Grand Street Campus High School, the home of MMC, and he is a friend and member of MMC. Kelijah wrote Stillwater when he witnessed the natural wonder of a partially frozen pond in Minnesota, where he was awarded as a leading composer of color.

During May of 2021, MMC restarted after a 14 month pandemic pause. We came together to make music in three small ensembles, a Jazz Band, a Woodwind Ensemble and a Brass Choir.

Each ensemble met 4 times and prepared a 15 minute digital concert to celebrate a return to in person music making. Given reopening challenges, our organization grew in its artistry, resilience and teamwork.


GSCB 2019-20 Season

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MMC Winter Concert

Saturday, Dec. 14th @ 3pm
Joint concert with Kings County Concert Band and Brooklyn Wind Symphony
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Shortcut Home
Dana Wilson

Lux Aurumque 
Eric Whitacre

Joy Revisited
Frank Ticheli

Air for Band
Frank Erickson

Let the Amen Sound
Travis J. Cross

Spring 2020 Virtual Ensemble

When our physical rehearsals came to an abrupt halt during the COVID-19 pandemic, the members of the Metropolitan Music Community created a virtual band to perform Michael Markowski’s “Brooklyn Air” under the direction of Jeff W. Ball. In this time of extreme unrest and uncertainty, we wanted to share something positive with our friends and supporters while we continue our work of building an inclusive musical community for all.


GSCB 2018-19 Season

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MMC Winter Concert

Saturday, Dec. 15th @ 3pm
Joint concert with Kings County Concert Band and Brooklyn Wind Symphony
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Viking March
Karl King

Down a Country Lane
Copland
arr. Patterson

Albanian Dance
Shelley Hanson

Bali
Michael Colgrass

Saturn Returns
Michael Markowski

Ukrainian Bell Carol
Traditional
arr. Andrew Wainwright

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MMC Modern Wind Symphony Concert

Saturday, Mar. 23rd @ 3pm
Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

After a Gentle Rain
Anthony Iannaccone

Arabian Dances
Brian Balmages

Terpsichorean Dances
Jodie Blackshaw

Bandancing
Mvt. I, III

Jack Stamp

Equus
Eric Whitacre

MMC Spring Concert

Saturday, May 18th @ 3pm
Joint concert with Kings County Concert Band and Brooklyn Wind Symphony
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

An Outdoor Overture
Aaron Copland

Salvation Is Created
Tchesnokoff
arr. Houseknecht

Marriage of Figaro (Overture)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
arr. Takahaski

The Planets: Jupiter
Gustav Holst
arr. Janssen

Colas Breugnon (Overture)
Kabalevsky
arr. Beeler


GSCB 2017-18 Season

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Our Favorite Things, Part 3

Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017 @ 7pm

Joint concert with Manhattan Wind Ensemble

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Jazz Suite #2
Dimitri Shostakovich
arr. Johan DeMeij

Sleep
Eric Whitacre

On This Bright Morning
David Maslanka

Scootin' on the Hardrock
David Holsinger

Second Suite in F
Gustav Holst

 

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Warhorses

Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017 @ 7pm

Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Rhapsody on Christmas Carols
Claude T. Smith

The Eighth Candle
Steve Reistetter

O Magnum Mysterium
Morten Lauridsen
arr. H Robert Reynolds

In the Bleak Midwinter
Holst
arr. Smith

Bugler's Holiday
Leroy Anderson

Nutcracker Suite: I, II, III
Tchaikovsky
arr. Rogan/McAlister/Reed

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Modern Wind Symphony

Sunday, March 11, 2018 @ 3pm

Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Red Line Tango
John Mackey

One Life Beautiful
Julie Giroux

Lincolnshire Posy
Percy Grainger

On the Mall
Edwin Franko Goldman

 

MMC 10th Anniversary Concert

Sunday, June 3, 2018 @ 3pm

Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony and Kings County Concert Band

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Resplendent Glory
Rossano Galante

Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Ralph Vaughan Williams
arr. Gregson

The Quest: Symphony No.3 "Don Quixote"
Robert W. Smith
guest conductor James P. Stephens

Reckoning
Michael Markowski


Special Appearances

 
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Columbia Festival of Winds

Sunday, March 4, 2018

Lerner Hall
2920 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

PROGRAM

Red Line Tango - John Mackey
On the Mall - Edwin Franko Goldman
One Life Beautiful - Julie Giroux
Lincolnshire Posy - Percy Grainger

 
 

Association of Concert Bands 2018 Conference

Saturday, May 5, 2018

Buffalo, New York

PROGRAM

Resplendent Glory - Rossano Galante
The Quest: Symphony No. 3 "Don Quixote" - Robert W. Smith
 - with special guest conductor Robert W. Smith
One Life Beautiful - Julie Giroux
Reckoning - Michael Markowski
O Magnum Mysterium - Morten Lauridsen
Red Line Tango - John Mackey


GSCB 2016-17 Season

Our Favorite Things, Part 2

Saturday Dec. 10, 2016 @ 7pm

Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Festive Overture 
Dimitri Shostakovich
arr. Donald Hunsberger

Shenandoah
Frank Ticheli 

Variations on a Korean Folk Song
John Barnes Chance

October
Eric Whitacre

Lord of the Rings:
Movements I: “Gandalf” & V: “Hobbits”

Johan de Meij 

Modern Wind Symphony

Sunday, March 19, 2017 @ 3pm

Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Mother Earth
David Maslanka

Masque
Kenneth Hasketh

Savannah River Holiday
Ron Nelson

Red Sky
Anthony Barfield
Jon Whitaker - Professor of Trombone - University of Alabama

Vesuvius
Frank Ticheli

An American Tapestry

Saturday, June 3, 2017 @ 7pm

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Danzas Cubanos
Robert Sheldon 

The Promise of Living
Aaron Copland

The House I Live In

Arabesque
Samuel R. Hazo

Largo from Symphony #9
Antonín Dvořák

Lincoln Portrait
Aaron Copland

Conga Del Fuego Nuevo Danzon #2
Arturo Marquez
arr. O. Nickel

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2017 New York Sounds of Summer International Music Festival

Tuesday, June 13, 2017 @ 8pm

Also featuring:
Yolo Community Band
Owensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra
Stadtmusik Stockach

Location: Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10019

Ticket information coming soon

PROGRAM

Lord of the Rings:
Movement I: “Gandalf”

Johan de Meij

The Promise of Living
Aaron Copland

Danzas Cubanas
Robert Sheldon

Pantomime for Euphonium and Band
Featuring Isaiah Figueroa, euphonium
Philip Sparke

Vesuvius
Frank Ticheli


GSCB 2015-16 Season

Painting by Alan Perkins

Things That Go Bump in the Night: A Halloween Concert

Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015 @ 3pm

Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Abracadabra
Frank Ticheli

Dance of the Witches
John Williams

Funeral March of a Marionette
Gounod

Incantation and Dance
Chance

Music for a Darkened Theater
Elfman

Sorcerers Apprentice
Dukas

Illustration by Kristin Sedivec

40 under 40 (40 minutes of music featuring under 40 composers)

Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015 @ 7pm

Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Camerado
Michael Markowski

Foundry
John Mackey

The Magician
Jordyn Gallinek

ghettoblaster
William Pitts 

Dusk
Stephen Bryant  

Magnolia Star
Steve Danyew

Painting by Jill Austen

ConFUSION?! Music of the Third Stream

Sunday, Mar. 20, 2016 @ 3pm

Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Blue Shades
Ticheli

Elixir
Michael Markowski 

Rubies
John Harbison

Fusion
Brian Balmages

Asphalt Cocktail
John Mackey

Watercolor by Maggie Nelson

Irish Night At The Pops

Friday, June 3, 2016 @ 8pm

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

At Kitty O'Shea's
Johan de Meij

Be Thou My Vision
Travis J. Cross

Molly on the Shore
Percy Grainger

Irish Tune from County Derry
Percy Grainger

The President's March
Victor Herbert

Sarsfield's Men
J.M. Doyle

Amhrán na bhFiann
Col. J.R. McGee

Irish Suite
Leroy Anderson

Star Spangled Spectacular
George M. Cohan


Summer 2015

Grand Street Community Band plays Carnegie Hall

Saturday, June 6, 2015 @ 8pm

PROGRAM

Suite in Eb for Military Band by Gustav Holst
Rest by Frank Ticheli
Procession of Nobles by Rimsky-Korsakov
City Trees by Michael Markowski
Kingfishers Catch Fire by John Mackey

 

GSCB 2014-15 Season

Our Favorite Things

Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014 @ 6pm

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Suite in Eb for Military Band
Gustav Holst

Armenian Dances (Part 1)
Alfred Reed

Toccata Marziale
Vaugn Williams

O Magnum Mysterium
Morten Lauridsen 

Florentiner March
Julius Fučik

Special Preview Performance

Saturday, Dec. 6 @ 7pm

Location: The New Utrecht Reformed Church at 1827 84th St. Brooklyn, NY 11214


A Night at the Opera

Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014 @ 1:30pm

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

With Susan E. Wagner High School Symphonic Band
Paul Corn, assistant principal of the arts, conductor

PROGRAM

Susan E. Wagner High School Symphonic Band

Enchanted Spaces
Samuel Hazo 

Dreamland
Michael Markowski

Selections From Wicked Stephen Schwartz
Arr. Jay Bocook

A Christmas Festival
Leroy Anderson

Grand Street Community Band

Triumphal March
Giuseppe Verdi
Arr. Douglas A. Richard

Pineapple Pole
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Arr. Charles Mackerras

Danse Bacchanale
Camille Saint-Saens

Procession of the Nobles
Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov

Te Deum
Giacomo Puccini
Arr. Johan de Meij 

Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral
Richard Wagner

Modern Wind Symphony

Saturday, Mar. 21, 2015 @ 6pm

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Fanfare to The Hammer
Anthony O’Toole   

Odyssey
Nicholas Flagello     

I Am
Andrew Boysen    

City Trees
Michael Markowski

Kingfishers Catch Fire
John Mackey

The Great American Songbook

Saturday, May 30, 2015 @ 7pm

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Overture to Funny Girl
Jule Styne                                
Arr. Charles Rosen

Selections from Oklahoma
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II        
Arr. Robert Russell Bennett
Trans. for band by R. Mark Rogers

Vocal Chart TBD
Jason Gotay, vocalist

Waltz from Carousel
Richard Rodgers
Arr. Robert Russell Bennett

Intermission

Overture to Candide
Leonard Bernstein
Arr. Clare Grundman
Laurel Stinson, guest conductor

Something's Coming from West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein
Arr. Michael Markowski
Jason Gotay, vocalist

Symphonic Dances from Fiddler on the Roof
Jerry Bock
Arr. Ira Hearshen

Selections from Porgy and Bess
George and Ira Gershwin
Arr. James Barnes


GSCB 2013-14 Season

A Fall Concert

Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013 @ 2pm

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Mark Camphouse
Heartland Sketches

George Gershwin
Second Prelude
Arr. by John Krance
Laurel Stinson, conductor

Michael Markowski
Dreamland

Eric Whitacre
Lux Aurumque

Vincent Persichetti
Divertimento for Band
I. Prologue
II. Song
III. Dance
IV. Burlesque
V. Soliloquy
VI. March 

A Road Trip Across America Part 1: To The South and Southwest 

Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013 @ 1:30pm

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Morton Gould
Yankee Doodle

Samuel Barber (trans. Richard Saucedo)
Sure on this Shining Night

Michael Markowski
Turkey in the Straw 

John Mackey
Sheltering Sky

Frank Ticheli
San Antonio Dances
I. The Alamo
II. Tex-Mex on The Riverwalk

 

Modern Wind Symphony

Saturday, Mar. 22, 2014 @ 1:30pm

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Stephen Bryant
Ectastic Fanfare

Frank Ticheli
Rest
Sgt. Joseph M. Bello from The United States Air Force Band, guest conductor

Steven Reineke
New Day Rising / Symphony No. 1
** New York Premiere! **

A Night at the Movies

Saturday, June 14, 2014 @ 7pm

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Jule Styne
Overture to "Gypsy" Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Lenard Bernstein Three Dance Episodes from "On the Town"
Arr. Marice Stith

Michael Giacchino, Alexander Courage & Gene Roddenberry Star Trek
Arr. Jay Bocook

John Williams
Cowboys
Arr. Jim Curnow

Eric Coates
Dam Busters
Arr. W.J. Duthoit

Ernest Gold
Exodus
Arr. Alfred Reed


Summer 2013 

Prospect Park Concert, Saturday, July 13, 2012 @ 2pm
Location: Concert Grove (Oriental Pavilion) at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY


GSCB 2012-13 Season

GSCB Revival Concert: A New Tradition

Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012
@ 1:30pm

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Holst
Second Suite in F for Military Band

Grieg (Shaver)
Funeral March

Shostakovich
Folk Dances

Arnold
Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo

 

Modern Wind Symphony

Saturday, Mar. 16, 2013
@ 2pm

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Maslanka
Procession of the Academics

Persichetti
Pageant

Tschesnokoff
Salvation is Created (arr. Bill Houseknecht)

Vaughan Williams
English Folk Song Suite

 

A Spring Celebration

Saturday, June 15, 2013
@ 1:30pm

Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)

PROGRAM

Stamp
Fanfare for a New Era

Grainger
Colonial Song

Dvořák
Slavonic Dance #8 (arr. Safranek)

Dello Joio
Scenes from the Louvre