"Open Rehearsal"
Enjoy music for Brass Ensemble from Civil War era Marches through Ragtime, New Orleans Jazz, and Blues and Swing music. This is an open rehearsal of a program that features music by composers George Gershwin, Scott Joplin, C.W. Handy, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong, performed by the Garden State Philharmonic Brass Quintet and Percussion.
9/22/21 Program Strike up the Band
Open Rehearsal ‐ Wednesday Sept. 22, 7:00pm
Burgdorff Theater ‐ Maplewood
GARDEN STATE PHILHARMONIC MUSICIANS
Michael Baker, Trumpet 1
Olivia Pidi, Trumpet 2
Karl Kramer‐Johansen, Horn
Roger Verdi, Trombone
Wes Krygsman, Tuba
Greg Landes, Percussion
Strike up the Band George Gershwin,
arr. Bill Holcombe
High Society ‐ Jazz Masterpieces from the Dixieland Era
arr. Luther Henderson
The Entertainer Scott Joplin,
arr. Arthur Frackenpohl
The Roaring Twenties,
arr. Paul Nagle
Five Foot Two, Eyes of BluE
Toot Toot Toosie
Making WhoopiE
Yes Sir that's my Baby
Simple Gifts Aaron Copland,
arr. Jari Villanueva
Beale Street Blues C.W Handy,
arr. Luther Henderson
Sweet Georgia Brown Ben Bernie & Maceo Pinkard,
arr. Luther Henderson
St. James Infirmary Irving Mills,
arr. Luther Henderson
featuring Roger Verdi, Trombone
Bess you is my Woman Now George Gershwin,
arr. Dan Lube
Selections from West Side Story Leonard Bernstein,
arr. Jack Gale
Maria
Somewhere
America
The Cottontail Caper Duke Ellington,
arr. Luther Henderson
It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing Duke Ellington,
arr. David Kosmyna
Strike up the Band ‐ Reprise George Gershwin,
arr. Bill Holcombe
MISSION: to present professional orchestral concerts of cultural and educational value and to foster related activities to encourage involvement in, and appreciation of, symphonic music.
HISTORY: The Garden State Philharmonic, under the direction of Music Director and Conductor Diane Wittry, is beginning its 66th Season. Over the years, the GSP has grown into a critically acclaimed professional orchestra that is the “Orchestra In Residence” at Ocean County College. In addition to the professional orchestra, the GSP sponsors a three-tiered Youth Orchestra program comprised of more than one hundred students between the ages of 8 and 21, and a Community Chorus. Through its concerts and musical outreach programs, the GSP has served over 20,000 people of all ages throughout the Jersey Shore and the State of New Jersey.
Comprised of professional musicians from New Jersey and New York, the Garden State Philharmonic presents a subscription series of professional orchestral concerts at the Grunin Center for the Arts, a concert series at Spring Lake Community Theatre, a yearly Messiah performance with the GSP Chorus, professional chamber music concerts and recitals, and an open rehearsal series in Maplewood, NJ. Community engagement activities include a “Meet the Music” concert series for young people ages 6-12, a free Fourth of July Concert, participation in Monmouth University’s Summer Music and Arts Festival, and 2 performances yearly of the Youth Orchestras and Youth Chorus. In addition, for the past 7 years, the GSP has partnered with the Atlantic City Ballet for Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker Ballet at the Strand Theater in Lakewood, NJ.
The Garden State Philharmonic performs concerts in three counties, Ocean, Monmouth, and Essex, and is a cultural resource performing the best in symphonic music throughout the region and the state of New Jersey.