Spring High School Bands

Since my wife Helen gave me a turntable that plugs into the computer, I can get all my old LPs transferred into WAV, AIFF, or MP3 files, including the recordings of Spring High School Bands from my sophomore through senior years.

There are some pops and hisses in these MP3s, because they were pulled from 30-year-old vinyl. I hope to eventually get the bad pops filtered out, but it will require some effort. The first time that I tried simple noise filtering on them, I managed to lose most of the low brass sound. (Is it trying to tell me something there?)


Spring High 1975-1976 (Album cover / reverse)
Symphonic Band			Jerry W. Sedatole, Director
	March from Symphonic Metamorphosis		Paul Hindemith	4:23	4.1 MB
	Alleluia Laudemus Te		Alfred Reed	7:33	7 MB
	Finale from Symphony No. 5 in D minor		Dmitri Shostakovich	9:38	8.9 MB
	Stars and Stripes Forever		John Philip Sousa	3:31	3.3 MB
Concert Band ¹			Craig Daniell, Director
	Fairest of the Fair		John Philip Sousa	3:43	3.5 MB
	Compendium		Leland Forsblad	5:49	5.4 MB
	Finale from Symphony No. 1 in G minor		Vasily Kalinnikov	9:30	8.7 MB
Cadet Band ²			Craig Daniell, Director
	Pride of the Illini		Karl L. King	3:00	2.8 MB
	Rhapsodic Episode		Charles Carter	6:13	5.7 MB
	Second American Folk Rhapsody		Clare Grundman	5:31	5.1 MB
	American Variations		Jerry Bilik	6:24	5.9 MB
Stage Band			Jerry W. Sedatole, Director
	Quincy and the Count		Sammy Nestico	3:24	3.2 MB
	Round Midnight		Cootie Williams & Thelonious Monk	4:08	3.8 MB
	Suncatchers		Marius Nordal	6:16	5.8 MB
	The Way We Were, Dawn Monachino, soloist		Marvin Hamlisch	5:16	4.9 MB

Spring High 1976-1977 (Album cover / reverse)
Symphonic Band ³			George Adams, Director
	March to the Scaffold, from Symphony Fantastique		Hector Berlioz, arr. William A. Schaefer	4:48	4.9 MB
	Lincolnshire Posy		Percy Aldridge Granger
	I.	Lisbon Bay		1:27	1.9 MB
	II.	Horkstow Grange		2:44	3.1 MB
	III.	Rufford Park Poachers		4:01	4.3 MB
	IV.	The Brisk Young Sailor		1:45	2.2 MB
	V.	Lord Melbourne		3:06	3.4 MB
	VI.	The Lost Lady Found		2:23	2.8 MB
	Variants on a Mediaeval Tune		Norman Dello Joio	10:26	10.1 MB
	Grand Serenade for An Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion (S1000) ⁴		P. D. Q. Bach
	I.	Grand Entrance		1:27	1.4 MB
	II.	Simply Grand Minuet ⁵		3:36	3.3 MB
	III.	Romance in the Grand Manner
	IV.	Rondo Mucho Grando
Concert Band ⁶			Craig Daniell, Director
	Zacatecas ⁷		Genaro Codina	4:13	4.4 MB
	Proclamations		Thom Ritter George	7:23	7.3 MB
Varsity Band			Craig Danielle, Director
	Inglesina		Della Cese	4:30	4.7 MB
	Overture for Symphonic Band		Bin Kaneda	6:33	6.6 MB
Stage Band			Craig Daniell, Director
	Endangered Species		Harry Stone	7:34	7.5 MB
	Hey, Jude!, Bobby Odneal, guest trumpet soloist		John Lennon & Paul McCartney, arr. Maynard Ferguson	6:22	6.4 MB

Spring High 1977-1978 ⁸ (Album cover / reverse) ⁹
Symphonic Band ¹⁰			J. Burley Bowman, Director
	Symphonic Concert March		Giouse Bonelli	6:06	6.1 MB
	Symphony in B♭ ¹¹		Paul Hindemith
	I.	Moderately Fast, With Vigor		6:00	6 MB
	II.	Andantino Grazioso
	III.	Fugue
	First Suite for Band		Alfred Reed
	I.	March		2:04	2.4 MB
	II.	Melody		4:25	4.6 MB
	III.	Rag		3:46	4 MB
	IV.	Gallop		2:25	2.7 MB
	Selections from The Wiz		Ken Harper/Charlie Smalls, arr. Bob Lowden	5:13	5.3 MB
Varsity Band			J. Burley Bowman, Director
	Washington Grays		Claudio S. Grafulla	4:06	4.3 MB
	La Forza Del Destino		Giuseppe Verdi	8:06	7.9 MB
	Rocky Point Holiday		Ron Nelson	5:41	5.7 MB
Concert Band			Jerry Crummel, Director
	Under the Double Eagle		Josef Franz Wagner	2:26	2.8 MB
	Fantasia for Band		Vittorio Giannini	5:56	6 MB
	Chorale and Capriccio		Caesar Giovannini	5:18	5.4 MB
Jr. Varsity Band			Terry Crummel, Director
	Processional March		Wagner ¹²	3:17	3.5 MB
	Prelude and Fugue in D minor		Johann Sebastian Bach	4:30	4.6 MB
	Chant and Jubilo		William Francis McBeth	5:10	5.3 MB

Notes:

Steve played string bass in 75-76 Concert Band.
Helen played B♭ clarinet in 75-76 Cadet Band.
Helen played B♭ clarinet in 76-77 Symphonic Band.
P. D. Q. Bach's "Grand Serenade" consists of four movements; unfortunately, only the first two movements made it onto the record. Really a shame, since the "percussion accident" at the beginning of the fourth movement was far better than could be hoped for, with a cymbal that took nearly 20 seconds to settle. (See PDQ Bach web page for more info.)
In case you're wondering about the sound at the end the second movement of "Grand Serenade", it is the entire clarinet section gargling.
Steve played string bass in 76-77 Concert Band.
About 15 seconds into "Zacatecas", the record hit a skip while I was out of the room, and it imported the same 1.8 seconds a total of 113 times before I discovered it and forced it to move on. I reduced the repetition to a single pop; I hope I kept the beat correctly and didn't actually lose anything.
Sound quality of the 1977-1978 album leaves much to be desired. Easily heard is a warp in the discs introduced by their spending an entire September weekend on the front seat of my father's pickup truck before I even knew that the album was released.
I don't know whose brilliant idea it was to list all of the administration and even the middle school band directors on the 1978 album jacket, yet mention not one single band member's name!
Helen played B♭ clarinet and Steve played string bass in 77-78 Symphonic Band, except in "Selections from The Wiz", in which Steve played electric bass guitar.
Hindemith's "Symphony in B♭" consists of three movements, but Symphonic Band performed only the first movement.
On the 1978 album jacket, all composers are listed by last name only. I have tried to determine exactly which Wagner composed this march, but every Internet reference I could find for "Wagner" and "Processional March" was to Richard Wagner's traditional wedding processional ("Here Comes the Bride"), which this piece definitely is not.

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