10/29/86 THE CONNECTICUT LIBERTY CONCERT, STARRING VICTOR BORGE Franz Waxman: Liberty Fanfare William Schuman: Chester Overture for Band Thomas C. Duffy: By The Shining Big-Sea Water (The Song of Hiawatha) Joseph Wilcox Jenkins: American Overture Charles Ives (arr. Schuman): Variations on "America" John Philip Sousa: Hands Across the Sea Traditional (arr. Duffy): The Star-Spangled Banner Samuel Augustus Ward (arr. Dragon): America The Beautiful E.E. Bagley (ed. Brion): National Emblem March Charles Gounod (arr. Duffy): La Liberté Éclairant Le Monde, with the Connecticut High School Liberty Band, the Yale Glee Club, the Yale Freshman Chorus, the Yale Camerata, and the Marquand Chapel Choir
12/5/86 HOLIDAY CONCERT Leonard Bernstein (arr. Beeler): Overture to Candide Thomas C. Duffy: The Song of Hiawatha Percy Grainger: Molly on the Shore J.S. Bach (arr. Grainger/ed. Brion): O Mensch, Bewein Sunde Groβ Anton Bruckner: Apollo March Howard Hanson (arr. McBeth): Symphony No. 2 "Romantic", Movement III Zo Elliott: The British Eighth Elliot del Borgo: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night John Barnes Chance: Incantation and Dance
2/13/87 WINTER CONCERT Felix Mendelssohn: Overture for Band Franz Waxman: Objective, Burma! Leonard Bernstein: Danzon Kent Kennan: Night Soliloquy Karel Husa: Music for Prague Byron Adams: Ballade for Piano and Wind Orchestra, feat. Craig Combs, piano [world premiere] Russell Peck: Cave of the Winds
4/12/87 SPRING CONCERT Thomas C. Duffy: Blue and Crimson Paul Hindemith (trans. Wilson): "March" from Symphonic Metamorphosis Thomas C. Duffy: Crystals Vincent Persichetti: Psalm for Band (Aaron Sherber, guest conductor) Paul Creston: Concertino for Marimba and Band, Movement I, feat. Suzanne Swift, marimba Karel Husa: Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band, feat. Dr. Eugene Rousseau, alto saxophone George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Medley, feat. Dr. Eugene Rousseau, alto saxophone Sir William Walton: Crown Imperial (Coronation March 1937)
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1987: Japan (13 performances concluding with an appearance at the All-Asia Band Conference in Tokyo; guest artists Karel Husa, composer/conductor and Eugene Rousseau, alto saxophone)
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