Thanks to the following individuals for their contributions West Branch

to the 2020-2021 Music Department: Spring Concert Series Presents:

West Branch Area School District Board of Education

Mrs. Michelle Dutrow

West Branch Area Superintendent

Mr. Joseph Holenchik

West Branch Area High School Principal

Mr. Mark Mitchell

West Branch Area Middle School Principal

Mrs. Allison Koleno

West Branch Area Elementary Principal

Mr. Dan Stilson

West Branch Area Elem. Music & MS Choral

Mrs. Melody Bell

West Branch Mighty Warrior Band- Band Front Advisor

Mrs. Jennifer Brickley & Crew

Auditorium Assistance
Mrs. Kim Eboch & Mrs. Laurie Hoffman
Assistance with MS/HS Band Business
Featuring
West Branch Area High School Concert Band
West Branch Area Middle School Concert Band

Under the Direction of

Mrs. Jennifer Porter & Mrs. Kim Hubler
Mr. Lance Jones

Mr. David Catherman & Maintenance Crew

A special thanks to our Band Boosters for their Wednesday, May 19th, 2021
“In the LOT”
continued support of music in our schools!
6:30pm
 Upcoming Fine Arts Department Events Program
Fall 2021 TBA: Dr. Jason Worzbyt Workshop, IUP
Marching Band Fall Trip Sixth Grade Concert Band
Au Claire De La Lune C. Debussy
County Band Festival
Mozart Melody W.A. Mozart
County Chorus Festival
Doodle All Day American Folk Song
Winter Performances for Band and Choral Ensembles
Skip to My Lou American Folk Song
Long Ago American Folk Song
Spring 2022: PMEA Festivals Oh Susanna S.C. Foster
March 2022: “Music in Our Schools” Month William Tell G. Rossini
March 10-12: PMEA Region 3 Band Festival Hosted at WBHS! Hard Rock Blues J. Higgins
Spring Performances for Band and Choral Ensembles Middle School Concert Band
Earth Shock Mekel Rogers
Christmas On the Farm arr. Mark Williams
To see more details, visit our website at:
Rising Star Samuel R. Hazo
www.wbwarriormusic.weebly.com Gypsydance David R. Holsigner
Admiration March Larry Clark
Join the WB Music Department on Remind:
Samurai Barry Ward
Text the message: @wbmusi
To the number: 81010 High School Concert Band

Hymn For Band Hugh Stuart

Tailspin Rob Romeyn
Our Kingsland Spring Samuel R. Hazo
Old Churches Michael Colgrass
Train Heading West (and other Outdoor Scenes) Timothy Broege
I. Prairie Ritual
II. Rain on the Mountain
III. Train Heading West

Morris Dance Tunes Gustav Holst, arr. Douglas E. Wagner

 Program Notes 2020-2021 West Branch Area High School Concert Band
This evening’s program, entitled “Homecoming,” will feature music that Flute Tuba
have direct connections to our music program here at West Branch. Ashley Folmar *# Olivia Blasko #
Aubrey Kennedy # Luke Liptak
Rylee Sabol #
Two of our pieces come from “hometown” composers. The beautiful Kayleigh Smeal #
“Hymn for Band” was written by Hugh Stuart, who is a native of Harris- Percussion
Peter Buggel
burg, PA. “Our Kingsland Spring” was composed by Samuel Hazo, who Clarinet
Carrie Fuller #
lives in Pittsburgh, PA. Mr. Hazo is one of the most recognized names Vesta Brickley #
Matthew Eirich #
in wind-band music. Now a composer-conductor on an international Sophia Plotner
Charity Hess *#
level, Mr. Hazo’s first guest-conducting experience was here in Clearfield Samuel Hess #
county in 2005. Bass Clarinet
Logan Kyler #
Alaina Gormont #
Mercedes Nearhood *#
“Tailspin” reflect the beloved personality and reputation our band pro-
gram holds within our district and surrounding communities. And lastly, Alto Saxophone
“Old Churches” and “Train Heading West” are outdoor depictions that have Dorothy Bailor #
Allison Shingledecker
been chosen to celebrate our first “outdoor” concert band performance.
Elijah Williams *#

The road that has brought us to this evenings performance has been long Tenor Saxophone
and full of trepidation. Music continues to bring us together. Music con- Dravin Kennedy *#
* Seniors
tinues to give us a way to navigate, to grief, and to celebrate. To express # Marching Band Member
French Horn
and create. Together.
Kurt English #

We do not take this evening for granted. Thank you for sharing it with Trumpet
us. Hunter Bell #
Elijah Corle #
Noah Emigh
Enjoy. Noah Fry #
Jonathan Hoover
Lily Jones #
Brandon Woods #

Trombone
Zach McGonigal
Scott Smeal
.
Euphonium
Kevin Hurley #
Brendan Zetts #
 2010-2021 West Branch Area Middle School Concert Band Why Music?
Music is a Science
Flute Trombone
• It is exact, specific; and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart:
Kadence Hazel Xavier Coudriet * Eighth Grade
a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony
Skyler Hebel Keagan Dobo # Marching Band all at once and with the most exact control of time
Kendra Kritzer Gavin Dunlap
Olivia Lukens Euphonium Music is Mathematical
Shasta Manahan • It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done
Sydney Sankey Ethan Lutcho
instantaneously, not worked out on paper.
Richard Weatherholtz Zach Robison
Katelyn Wright Music is a Foreign Language
Haley Woodling • Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the notation is certainly not
Mayzey Wooster *# Percussion English--but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas.
Tyler Chilcote The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language.
Evan Emigh
Clarinet
Issabella Kerfoot # Music is History
Nevaeh Eminheiser #
Madison Gray *# Dylan Himes • Music usually reflects the environment and time of its creation, and often even the
Mckenzie Harbold Silas Jones * country and/or ethnic feelings behind the piece.
Hannah Ishler Maverick Quick
Hillman Torretti Music is a Physical Education
Mekaila King
Madison Korb Jason Weatherholtz • It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheek, and facial mus-
Melody McGuire Franklin Wholaver cles; in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach and chest
muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
Alexa Prestash Codey Zelenky
Music is all these things, but most of all music is art
Alto Saxophone
• It allows a human being to take all these dry, technically boring (but difficult) tech-
Haylie Amos *# niques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing that science cannot duplicate:
Kelcey English *# humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will…
Ali McCamley
Elaina Sabol That is Why We Teach Music!
Emily Shingledecker • Not because we expect you to major in music
Natalie Yingling • Not because we expect you to play or sing all your life

Trumpet • Not so you can relax

Hilde Hautier • Not so you can have fun
Joseph Luzier • BUT--so you will be human
Hayden Martin *# • So you will recognize beauty
James Maynard *#
• So you will be sensitive
Allaina McGivney
Dylan McGonigal • So you will be closer to an infinite beyond this world
Toby Mebs • So you will have something to cling to
Jonah Porter • So you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good--in
Mya Redmond short, more life. Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless we
Daivd Shiroky know how to live?
Evan Wooster That is Why We Teach Music!
Carter Yingling
Reed Yingling