Thursday Evening with PCB
8:00 PM Thursday, July 27th, 2006
| Dr. Karl Swearingen, Guest Conductor |
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| Opening Ceremony |
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| Program to be selected from the following: |
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| Alleluia, Laudemas Te .......................................................... Alfred Reed |
| A Slavic Farewell ............................................................ Vasilij Agapkin |
| Barnum & Bailey's Favorite ..................................................... Karl King |
| Dunedin ........................................................................... Kenneth Alford |
| How the West Was Won ................................................... Alfred Newman |
| Nobles of the Mystic Shrine .......................................... John Philip Sousa |
| Salvation is Created .................................................... Pavel Tchesnokoff |
| Sang .................................................................................... Dana Wilson |
| Variation on "America" ....................................................... Charles Ives |
| Victory at Sea ................................................................... Rogers/Bennett |
| America the Beautiful ............................................. arr. Carmen Dragon |
Dr. Karl Swearingen joins us tonight having just completed a six-year tenure
as Professor of Music Education and Assistant Marching Band Director at
University of Southern California. Beginning July 1 he assumed his new
position as Director of Bands and Orchestras at Lakewood High School, Long
Beach Uniified School District.
He earned his degrees in music at Western State College (Colorado) and the
University of Southern California. He then served on the faculty of Ithaca College
where he was an Assistant Professor of Music Education, Conductor of the Ithaca
College Concert Band, and Brass Choir. He has also taught instrumental music in
the public schools of California and Colorado. With expertise in brass
ensembles, band rehearsal techniques, and curriculum/technology applied to
music education, he has presented clinics at regional and state music educator
conventions. He spent the summer of 2001 in the Ukraine, working with
Experimental Arts School #57 in Sevastopol and the Black Sea Fleet Band of the
Russian Federation.
Since 2002 he has conducted the Golden State British Brass Band, an ensemble
of select players devoted to performing brass band music in the British tradition.
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