Edison Middle School Winter Concert
Featuring Edison's
6th Grade Concert Band
7th Grade Concert Band
8th Grade Concert Band—with guest soloist Michael Holmes
Thursday December 8, 2011
Edison Middle School Auditorium--7:00pm
The 6th Grade Concert Band will be performing:
Delibes' March of Bacchus
Dvorak's Largo
Hazo's As Winds Dance
Smith's March of the Magical Toys
The 7th Grade Concert Band will be performing:
Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
Curnow's Korean Folk Rhapsody
Gassi's Variations on an English Folk Song
Del Borgo's Angels We Have Heard on High
The 8th Grade Concert Band will be performing:
Sheldon's Sound Innovations Fanfare
Holst's A Holst Christmas
Whitney's Introduction and Samba for Alto Saxophone and Band—featuring Michael Holmes
Handel's Hallelujah Chorus (from The Messiah)
J. Michael Holmes is a talented solo and chamber musician whose active playing career has seen him performing some of the most prestigious venues in the United States, including Carnegie Hall, and also around Europe and Taiwan. Michael has presented clinics, masterclasses, and given performances at some of the most prestigious saxophone programs in the United States and most recently taught at the University of Oregon as a Visiting Guest Artist as well as Guest Instructor of Music at the prestigious University of Notre Dame. In the fall of 2011 Holmes began working at the University of Illinois as the Director of Enrollment Management as well as Clinical Assistant Professor of Music. World-renowned saxophonist John Sampen states that, "Michael is emerging as one of America's stars in the world of the concert saxophone."
Admission is FREE—we hope you can join us for this incredible evening of live music!
