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Executive Board OfficersPresident - Alisa F. StewartExec. VP/Communications - Sherry SantoTreasurer - Felicia TorrenceSecretary - Debbie Arvesen1st VP / Fundraising - Robb Brown2nd VP / Concert Bands - Birgit Roberts3rd VP / Marching Band - Mimi Winship4th VP / Jazz Bands - Janet McCreightMembership Coordinator - Holly WilandSMAPA Representative - Mort Bernstein

Principal VounteersColorguard/Winterguard Chair - Tava TheisDirect Donation Chair - Clare BaumBand Merchandize Sales - Sabrina ChunBand Logo Wear Design - John LaBorde

eScrip Chair - Mark ChoiConcert Formal Wear - Tracy SaltzmanConcert Program Chair - Karl EdwardsProgram Ad Sales - Mandy StackelProgram & Poster Artwork - Mel HoranConcert Cafe Chair - Jan KravetsAwards & Honors Chair - Joi MorrisWind Ensemble/Special Trip Chair - Laurie CharchutBand Photographer/Program Back Cover - Roy PersinkoVolunteer Coordinator & First Aid - Rachel DeeseMedical Coordinator - Allison LeongUniform Chair - Pat MahlerCompetition & Football Game Coordi-nators - Bob & Susie GunterChow Line Chair - Shelly Hawkins

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Celebrating Student Honors

California Band Directors Association All-State Honor GroupsThe California Band Directors Association All-State Music Education Confer-ence provides a unique opportunity for talented musicians from throughout the state to participate in honor groups that are conducted by leading music educators from throughout the country. The California All-State honor groups will perform February 22-24, 2013 in Fresno. Congratulations to the following SAMOHI band members selected for 2013 All-State honor groups:

CODA All-State Honor OrchestraSteven Harmon, French HornJosh Maccoby, French HornRyan Roberts, Oboe

CBDA All-State Honor Jazz BandEli Brown, TrumpetKyle McCreight, Trombone

CBDA All-State BandMollie Bernstein, OboeHenry Felstiner, Bass ClarinetSophia Horwitz-Hirsch, ClarinetJonah Krop, EuphoniumChristopher Pak, TrumpetRachel Ricard, FluteLauren Villero, ClarinetWinona Wiland, Clarinet

SCSBOA Honor GroupsThe Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association (SCSBOA) was founded in 1937 and provides enrichment opportunities for outstanding Southern California musicians through participation in honor groups. The SCSBOA honor groups will perform this year at a concert on February 10th at the University of Redlands. SAMOHI Band students are well represented in these honor groups each year. The SAMOHI Band students selected for the 2013 SCSBOA honor groups are:

SCSBOA OrchestraSteven Harmon, French HornSarah Ohanian, Flute

SCSBOA Wind EnsembleJosh Maccoby, French HornMadison Miller, ClarinetChristopher Pak, Trumpet

SCSBOA AlternateRenee Ross, BassoonKyle Schwartz, Baritone Saxophone

SCSBOA Symphonic BandHenry Flestiner, Bass ClarinetSophie Horwitz-Hirsch, ClarinetAva Pomerantz, ClarinetWinona Wiland, Clarinet

Middle School Honor BandHayden Kirschbaum, ClarinetEric Manning, Clarinet

Middle School Honor OrchestraSam Guyetter, Clarinet

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FluteFrancis Luke AbastillasYanjun LiValerie Yong

OboeJackson Kennedy

ClarinetRyan FragomeniRonald Harris-GavinJennifer LopezJacob PinkXochitl RamirezDaniel Smith

Alto SaxophoneRaisha AsumaPaul CougillMiguel Hernandez

Tenor SaxophoneChristopher MarinJennifer Recendez

French HornSamantha GillespieTed KumagaiSusana RamosCameron Rappaport

TrumpetNicholas AragonNicholas FrancoJustin Golden

TromboneChristian DoddDiego Hughes-ReyesAnanya MadirajuBrandon RiggsBenjamin Spillman

EuphoniumOmeed Partovi

TubaJoseph Staraci

PercussionNiko AbeMichael AboutboulJakob BarnerAjani Bryant GysiEaston DeleonBrandon GainesAlfredo GonzalezFelix HoranLaila KaddouraOliver KonopekBryce JohnsonGriffin MittlemanSherryn Pattarawuttiwong

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Santa Monica High School AdministrationLaurel Fretz, PrincipalCatherine Baxter, Dean of StudentsJason Kurtenbach, S House PrincipalSteve Franklin, M House PrincipalClara Herran, O House PrincipalLeslie Wells, H House PrincipalRenne Semik, I House Principal

Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Senior CabinetSandra Lyon, SuperintendentJanece Maez, Chief Financial Officer, Assistant SuperintendentDebra Moore Washington, Assistant Superinten-dent, Human ResourcesTerry Deloria, Assistant Superintendent, Educa-tional ServicesBoard of EducationLaurie Lieberman, PresidentMaria Leon-Vazquez, Vice PresidentBen Allen, Oscar de la Torre, Jose Escarce, Ralph Mechur & Nimish Patel, MembersVisual & Performing Arts DepartmentTom Whaley, VAPA CoordinatorChandra Narain, VAPA AssistantCary Upton, Director of Theatre OperationsVAPA District Advisory CommitteeJanice Gabbert, ChairBambi Martins, Vice ChairZina Josephs, Secretary

Santa Monica-Malibu Education FoundationLinda Greenberg Gross, Executive Director

The Gail Dorin Music FoundationThe Ella Fitzgerald Charitable FoundationThe Santa Monica City Council

Santa Monica High School Visual & Perform-ing Arts DepartmentKevin McKeown, Director of BandsTerry Sakow, Director of BandsTom Whaley, Jazz Band DirectorJessica Swift, Jazz Band II DirectorJulia Barnett, Instructional AideAndy Bill, Percussion InstructorJuan Gonzalez, Color Guard Caption Head

Jody Anderson, Color Guard TechYosuke Miyoshi, Marching TechJeffe Huls, Dept. Chair; Director of Vocal MusicJoni Swenson, Director of OrchestraJason Aiello, Assistant Orchestra DirectorKate Soller, Director of TheatreNate Hodges, Director of DanceLuis Villegas, Guitar InstructorMark Harris, Guitar InstructorDavid McCrum, Theatre Technical CoordinatorJan Strnad, Barnum Hall House ManagerBill Wishart, Audio/Visual , Speaker RunningNaomi Sato, Instructional AideLucas Capra, Stage Technician

Malibu High School VAPA - MusicAmy Loch, Choir DirectorBill Bixler, Band & WindsMaia Zander, Orchestra

John Adams Middle School VAPA - MusicAngela Woo, Director of Instrumental Music, VAPA ChairApryl Garcia, Asst Director of Instrumental MusicCecile Blanchard, Director of Choral MusicRuss Mullen, Instructional AssistantAlina Baskina, AccompanistKelly Flickinger, Dr. Justin Hageman, Grace Hsu, Dr. Josephine Liu Moerschel, Jennifer Roth & Peter Senchuck, Coaches

Lincoln Middle School VAPA - MusicMark Hunt, Director of Bands, VAPA ChairJim Wang, Director of OrchestrasVanessa Ventre, Director of Choral MusicHeather Klenk, Instructional Asst., BandsColleen Ruddy, Instructional Asst., OrchestrasStephen Dress, Karolina Naziemiec, Teag Reaves, Peter Senchuck & Kelly Weaver, Coaches

SMMUSD Elementary General Music & SMASH Middle School InstructorsRobbie Anderson, Kirsten Bersch, Susan Justin, Bon-nie Lockrem, Allen Loyd, Jar-el MIki Cruz, Salvador Muñoz, Lindsay Quiroz, Steven Ravaglioli, Jessi Spike-Gravelle, and Bruce Tellier.

Acknowledgments Concert Band

FluteAishwarya BhallaTab ChapmanHeidi ChoiAdam GorenKaitlyn HayesAriana HernandezLauren LaBordeJonathan MassachiXimena MedinaAnett SzczepanekDaria Yaari

OboeIden Amiri

ClarinetEmily ArvesenAudrey BenacerrafIvan EstevezElliot FrankZahra HashimMiles HollandBrian KanjoEric ManningStella MilinichGabriel MugalianHarrison SalingScott SantoJonah SharfLisa TakahashiJonathan Trester

Bass ClarinetZain DelawallaMehak DelawallaHenry FelstinerJacob NikolauChristopher RosaEdgar SantiagoAlexander Soohoo

Alto SaxophoneNicholas ElekJake GuyetteAdnan Virani

Tenor SaxophoneAlexandra GillespieBisrat Moges

French HornFarhan AzamEmma EncinasKiley McGillNikolas NahassCarol SotojSamuel Youngs

TrumpetCaleb GarbuioMatthew HowardChristian Joy-ItoMaddie Lo MonacoTomas PradaDaniel RotbergTimothy SouthamJessi ThixtonMollie Wittels

TrombonePedro FlackNipunjeet GujralJolene HauckMonai HicksSamuel RiettaFrederick RiggsFrancine Rios-FetchkoJack SadlerHenry Schlessinger

EuphoniumSean ChunAemoni HarrisDavid MijaresJesus Palma

TubaMatthew BrandIsmael De PabloJacob GainesAustin GomezMalcolm RoddyChristopher Schlierman

PercussionNiko AbeMichael AboutboulJakob BarnerAjani Bryant GysiEaston DeleonBrandon GainesAlfredo GonzalezFelix HoranLaila KaddouraOliver KonopekBryce JohnsonGriffin MittlemanSherryn Pattarawuttiwong

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Viking Marching Band

FluteSara ArvesenAishwarya BhallaFrancesca BillingtonHeidi ChoiAdam GorenAriana HernandezEmily PersinkoRachel RicardValerie Yong

ClarinetMira BaumSophie Horwitz-HirschHayden KirschbaumJennifer LopezMadison MillerAva PomerantzJerry QiChris RosaScott SantoJillian SondereggerClaire StewartTheresa StewartRina Watanabe

Alto SaxophoneRaisha Asuma RadinalFrancesca CrowleyJessica DeeseGianna Ferrarin

Adam KummerRene RossEdgar Santiago

Tenor SaxophoneDaisy GarciaChristopher MarinJacob Nikolau

TrumpetNicholas AragonJack AronDaniel ChenevertCarruth CullJake GoldDaniel Rotberg

MellophoneFrancis Luke AbastillasMegan EdwardsCarol SotojJacob IrvinLauren VilleroAutumn Winship

Euphonium Cyrus ChunAemoni HarrisJesus Palma

TromboneElias Batalla

Nipunjeet GujralMatthew HawkinsMonai HicksAndrew LewisAnanya Madiraju

SousaphoneJacob LevineZoe MoenchTucker MoodyDali Nemecio

PercussionJakob BarnerAjani Bryant GysiBenjamin CanalesZachary GotlerEnrique IpinaRachel IsrailevichLaila KaddouraYanjun LiMatilda LoughmillerGriffin MittlemanGabriel MugalianSherryn Pattarwutti-wongBenjamin RichmanDavid RojasElias Valladares

Drum MajorSteven Harmon

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Symphonic Winds

PiccoloDorothy DeBiasse

FluteSara ArvesenKalon CheungGabrielle ClouseDorothy DeBaisseLauren FleckAbigail Wisen

OboePhoebe KiekhoferSadie SaltzmanElla Warshauer

ClarinetMira BaumMary GuirguisSamuel GuyetteTomoki IshizukaHayden KirschbaumAlaleh MokhtariDalí NemecioOlive ShermanJillian SondereggerTheresa StewartTom Tan

Bass ClarinetDylan MeekMonica NorrisAndrej PervanShayda Yazdani

Contra-Alto ClarinetJillian Sonderegger

BassoonFrancesca BillingtonMaya Gorgas

Alto SaxophoneJessica Deese Gianna Ferrarin Alex Kahan Max Levenson Frederic Norris William Tomita

Tenor SaxophoneDaisy GarciaAndres Orellana

Baritone SaxophoneJacob Irvin Kyle Schwartz

French HornManuel Beltran Amancai Biraben Steven Harmon Maclaine Kennedy Alexander Kinsinger Peter Pak Ella Ponthier Kathryn Rusk-Kosa

TrumpetJack Aron Carruth Cull Enrique Ipina Christopher Pak Jakub PreisBrandon Searfoss

TromboneGlennon Davalos Stanton Matthew Hawkins Patrick Hu Andrew Lewis Liam McBride Daniel Murokh Sumner Schwartz

EuphoniumCyrus ChunTess King

TubaFrancisco Gutierrez Mikey LaBorde Zoe Moench

PercussionJack BonnerBradley FinkelsteinRachel IsrailevichMatilda LoughmillerBenjamin RichmanNima ShajarianBenjamin StackelElias ValladaresBennett Zemke

themes recur in reverse order. Near the end, they are combined with a quota-tion (proclaimed by the ubiquitous trombones) from the Coronation Scene of Moussorgsky’s “Boris Goudonov”, where the chorus sings the Russian word slava, meaning glory. In this way, of course, the composer is paying an extra four-bar homage to his friend Mistislav “Slava” Rostropovich, the great cellist, to whom the overture is fondly dedicated.

Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral Richard Wagner (Trans. Callilet)With its medieval color and pageantry, Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral prefaces her betrothal to Lohengrin, mystic Knight of the Holy Grail, who comes to deliver the people of Brabant (Antwerp) from the Hungarian invaders. In the operatic presentation, a large double chorus (representing the people of Antwerp) adds its song of solemn praise to that of the orchestra. It is in this music, mystic yet powerful, that we find Wagner striking out with those new and intense musical thoughts that were to culminate in Tristan & Isolde, The Ring cycle, and Parsifal.

In this transcription of Elsa’s Procession for symphonic band, Lucien Caillet, with his great talent for instrumentation, has succeeded in building into the instru-mental framework of the modern band a true and delicate representation of all that Wagner so eloquently describes with orchestra and chorus. In the present score, the instrumental solo voices of the original score are paralleled, the cho-ral voices deftly absorbed in the rich instrumental texture and all the luxuriant Wagnerian color re-created in terms of the instrumentation for the band. There is nothing in the actual performing of this score that should prove hazardous for either technique or musicianship. It is advisable, however, to maintain a posi-tive and definite legato at all times, only allowing the music to indicate a definite climax eleven measures before the end, and here the climax should be worked gradually with more and more rhythmic consciousness, avoiding any explosive crescendi and maintaining balance at all times.

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loves, including his wife. The music turns dramatic when returning soldiers bring the bubonic plague to the village and the Duke orders everything burned, includ-ing Colas’ carved statues. A widowed Colas survives and he renews a past love. Comedy returns and Colas has revenge when the Duke’s commissioned statue is revealed showing the Duke seated backwards on a donkey.

Horn Concerto in E-Flat, K. 417 W.A. Mozart, (Trans. Rumbelow) Movement I Steven Harmon, HornAt the age of three, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) showed a remarkable love of music. He would listen to his sister Marianne’s lessons and later would im-provise similar tunes and chords. Touring the great courts of Europe, under their father’s tutelage, the children’s talents were hailed with astonishment. By the time he was twelve, Mozart had written numerous works, including two operas. As a young man and no longer the infant prodigy, Mozart returned to Salzburg to the unsympathetic atmosphere of the archbishop’s court. Despite an uncertain financial position and poor health, Mozart produced a fabulous legacy of opera, concerto, symphony, choral, and ensemble music.

Slava! A Concert Overture Leonard Bernstein (Trans. Grundman)The son of a Russian immigrant, Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990), began life in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He studied composition at Harvard, where he first met Aaron Copland. Their friendship was cemented in the early 1940's in the work-shops at Tanglewood. Bernstein achieved instant conducting fame when, at the age of twenty-five, with sixteen hours notice, he conducted a broadcast of the New York Philharmonic Symphony after the scheduled guest conductor, Bruno Walter, became suddenly ill.

It was his fate to be far more than routinely successful. His vast talents, charming personality, and mastery of semantics succeeded where many have failed in com-municating to others his own intense enthusiasm for and love of music. Bernstein wrote symphonies, ballets, an opera, a film score, works for violin and chorus with orchestra, four Broadway musicals, and several smaller works for solo and cham-ber music groups. He divided his affections between traditional classical music and the jazz and Tin Pan Alley sound of popular America. Bernstein incorporated the element of jazz in many of his compositions, including his Mass and the score to West Side Story. Other notable works are Candide, Fancy Free, and Chichester Psalms. William Schumann said of Bernstein: “He is an authentic American hero, a new breed of hero, an arts hero, showing that America does honor her artists.” In 1990, the musical world lost both Bernstein and his teacher and friend, Aaron Copland.

The first theme of Slava! is a vaudevillian razz-ma-tazz tune filled with side-slipping modulations and sliding trombones. Theme two is a canonic tune in 7/8 time. A very brief kind of development section follows, after which the two

Wind Ensemble

PiccoloRachel Ricard

FluteSophie CrowleyLinda GordonAdrienne HinoSarah OhanianEmily PersinkoRachel RicardJennifer White-Phalan

OboeMollie BernsteinRyan Roberts

ClarinetNicholas Charchut Clelia Davis Del PiccoloElliot FleckSophia Horwitz-HirschGregory MelickMadison MillerJason OyakawaAva PomerantzJerry QiNoah Rosenberg

Raphael RosselliniRichard SearfossWinona WilandChris Yang

Bass ClarinetRachel KiekhoferJames McFarlandLauren Villero

BassoonRene Ross

Alto SaxophoneAdam KummerJose Sepulveda Mendoza

Tenor SaxophoneTucker MoodyStephanie Soohoo

Baritone SaxophoneVictoria Hatakeyama

French HornMegan EdwardsJake Gold

Steven HarmonJoshua MaccobySkyler MuldaurHarper Olmon

TrumpetElias BrownDaniel ChenevertSpencer CramerElijah KravetsBenjamin RosenbergAlejandro Sepulveda Mendoza

TromboneElias BatallaAndrew BrownHarrison KlannKyle McCreightIsaac Nemzer

EuphoniumJonah KropEric StockerMitchell Won

TubaDaniel BottittaJonathan ForsanderJacob Levine

PercussionIsley BrockBenjamin CanalesBen GelfandZachary GotlerAmira KaddouraMichael KentJulian MickelsonBrandon Pearl

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Wind EnsembleOverture from Colas Bruegnon Dmitri KabalevskyDmitri Kabalevsky (1904 - 1987) was born in St. Petersburg, the son of a Russian civil servant. Early on, he showed a talent for music, playing the piano by ear at the age of six and, soon after, trying to compose. His formal musical education waited until Kabalevsky was fourteen, when he and his family moved to Moscow. There he attended the Scriabin School of Music from 1919 to 1925. In 1925, he entered the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied composition with Nikolai Miaskovsky. Kabalevsky became an assistant instructor at the Conservatory and earned full professorship in 1939. His style is marked by clear tonality and en-ergetic rhythms, which made it easy for him to abide by the Communist Party’s decree for music that was socially usable. He never abandoned his early interest in young people and produced numerous instrumental compositions and songs for them. He regularly corresponded with students at some 150 high schools, giving them advice and direction in their musical interests.

Kabalevsky’s first opera, Colas Breugnon, was first performed in Leningrad in February 1938 at the height of socialist realism. The spirited and sometimes comi-cal Overture summarizes the three act opera based on a novel by Romain Rol-land. The story revolves around a 16th Century Colas Breugnon, a Breton master carpenter who thwarts a villainous Duke, thereby drawing parallels to the workers of the Soviet Union. The opera introduces episodes from Colas’ past and present

classical music. At the age of forty-six, at the apex of his career, Gomidas was exiled, together with other Armenian intellectuals, by the Turks, in April, 1915, at which time the genocide of one and a half million Armenians took place. He was released within a short time, but the sufferings and atrocities which he had witnessed resulted in a complete mental and physical breakdown from which he never recovered. He died in Paris in 1935. His legacy to the Armenian people, and to the world’s ethnic music, is invaluable, and his major contribution lies in preserving so many centuries-old melodies from obscurity, or oblivion.

Part I, containing the first movement of this Suite (the remaining three move-ments constituting Part II), is an extended symphonic rhapsody built upon five different songs, freely treated and developed in terms of the modern, integrated concert band or wind ensemble. In order of their appearance in the score, they are: Tzirani Tzar (The Apricot Tree); Gakavi Yerk (Partridge’s Song); Hoy, Nazan Eem (Hoy, My Nazan); Alagyaz and Gna, Gna (Go, Go). While the composer has kept his treatment of the melodies within the general limits imposed on the mu-sic by its very nature, he has not hesitated to expand the melodic, harmonic and rhythmic possibilities in keeping with the demands of a symphonic-instrumen-tal, as opposed to an individual vocal or choral approach to its performance.

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Winter Concert 2013

Concert WindsBlue Ridge Saga James SweringenThe Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appala-chian Mountains range. The mountain range is located in the eastern United States, starting at its southern-most portion in Georgia, then ending northward in Pennsylvania. To the west of the Blue Ridge, between it and the bulk of the Appalachians, lies the Great Appalachian Valley, bordered on the west by the Ridge and Valley province of the Appalachian range.

The Blue Ridge Mountains are noted for their bluish color when seen from a distance. Trees put the "blue" in Blue Ridge, from the isoprene released into the atmosphere, thereby contributing to the characteristic haze on the mountains and their distinctive color. The opening fanfare introduces as majestic and expansive as the Blue Ridge Mountain region it portrays. The predominant style is a bold stately march, with a slower lyrical section providing contrast before returning to the fanfare and march to finish.

Concert BandDanse Bohémien Randall StandridgeThe composer writes, “Danse Bohémien is inspired by the many great can-cans, galops, and quick-steps that populate the music repertoire. Among my favorites of these is Pas Redouble by Camille Saint-Saens. There is so much unbridled energy and boisterous fun in that piece that one cannot help but be caught up in sheer joy the piece communicates. This is the spirit that I sought to capture in Danse Bohémien (roughly translated as “Gypsy Dance” or “Bohemian Dance”). The piece is intended to be used as a concert opener, finale, or possibly as an encore. I owe the title to a suggestion by one of my students; Hayley Denton,

Symphonic WindsAmazing Grace Frank TicheliThe composer writes, “I wanted my setting of Amazing Grace to reflect the powerful simplicity of the words and melody - to be sincere, to be direct, to be honest - and not through the use of novel harmonies and clever tricks, but by traveling traditional paths in search of truth and authenticity.”

“I believe that music has the power to take us to a place that words alone can-not. And so my own feelings about “Amazing Grace” reside in this setting itself. The harmony, texture, orchestration, and form are inseparable, intertwined so as to be perceived as a single expressive entity.”

“The spiritual, “Amazing Grace,” was written by John Newton (1725-1807), a slaveship captain who, after years of transporting slaves across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World, suddenly saw through divine grace the evilness of his acts. First published in 1835 by William Walker in The Southern Harmony, “Amazing Grace” has since grown to become one of the most beloved of all American spirituals.”

Armenian Dances (Part I) Alfred Reed The Armenian Dances, Parts I and II, constitute a four-movement Suite for Concert Band or Wind Ensemble based on authentic Armenian folk songs from the collected works of Gomidas Vartabed (1869-1935), the founder of Armenian

SAMOHI Viking Marching BandLiberty Bell John Philip SousaAccording to America’s leading Sousa scholar, Paul E. Bierley, Sousa was in-spired to write this march because of a huge painting he had seen of the Liberty Bell in Chicago. This march is in typical Sousa style, full of bouncy rhythms, brilliant in its orchestration, both melodic and stirring. It is one of Sousa’s finest marches, bringing the audience’s attention to the Liberty Bell itself through the use of chimes during the trio. Many fans of the British surreal television show Monty Python’s Flying Circus will quickly recognize its familiar opening intro-duction and theme.

you are a Bohemian and Gypsy in your own right, and may the musical muses smile upon you for it.”

Seventh Day David ShafferDavid Shaffer was born in Columbus, Ohio. He holds a Bachelor Degree from the Ohio State University and a Master of Music Degree from Miami University (Ohio). He has been associated with the Miami University Marching Band for 31 years. Mr. Shaffer has published over 350 compositions and arrangements, and his music is used at clinics and festivals around the world.

Based on the tune of the 19th century hymn My Shepherd Shall Supply My Need, The Seventh Day is a reflection on the biblical account of Creation. It is a powerful programmatic piece that opens with the woodwind choir. As the piece develops, the mood shifts to excitement and a feeling of exhilaration. The tension and musical drama is brought to a conclusion only in the last measure, as the climax is suspended for a long electric moment with the decay of a single chime tone.