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Band Musician Invitational Event – Rehearsal and Concert

 

Theme:  Back to the Future

Sunday July 26, 2026

 

 

California: Ability concert 7/27/2025

 

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The Days Schedule

8:00am            Coffee/pastries
8:30am            Check-in

9:00am            Rehearsal part 1

10:30am          Break

11:00am          Rehearsal part 2

12:30pm          Lunch and free time
NEW THIS YEAR – CONCERT TIME IS ½ HOUR LATER

3:30-4:15pm    NCCBand shuttle – move cars off-site

3:30pm            Stage, percussion, banners, and sound system setup

4:15pm            Concert seating setup (no instruments)

5:00pm            Rehearsal and soundcheck (with instruments)

5:30-7:30pm    Concert

afterward        Shuttle will run as long as needed – no rush!

All Extra Information Is Here!

  Percussion assignments link (coming soon)

  Rehearsal notes link (coming soon)

  Pioneer Park map

  NCCBand shuttle map

  Performance layout diagram link (coming soon)

 

Live Radio Broadcast

Our concert will be aired on KVMR radio station.

       89.5 FM Nevada City

       streaming LIVE at KVMR.ORG

 

Music List with Listening Links (in CONCERT order) (in alphabetical order)

This years musical theme for the Invitational concert is BACK TO THE FUTURE travels about 100 years into the past, and then hops skips and jumps forward in time.

 

OPENER:  The Star Spangled Banner
arr. Claudio S. Grafullolisten

 

At the Movies with John Williams
arr. Justin Williams
iconic 20th century composer – listen

MEDLEY: The Planet Krypton (Superman: The Movie) Flight to Neverland (Hook) Somewhere in My Memory (Home Alone)

 

Back to the Future
Alan Silvestri/Frank Bernaerts
theme from the 1985 film on its 40th anniversary – listen

 

The Barnstormer
Nick Brown/Mackie-Beyer/Cheryl Woldseth
1910 piece celebrating the daring pilots of early aeronautics – listen

 

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Don Raye & Hughie Prince/James D. Ployhar
Andrews Sisters 1941 tune using early blues style and featuring the cornet section  listen

 

A Century of Progress
John Philip Sousa/Roy J. Weger
written for the 1933 Chicago Worlds Fairlisten

 

Curtain Call
John Wasson
in the vaudeville style (popular from 1870s to 1930s) – listen

 

Eagle Squadron
Kenneth J. Alford
1942 march celebrating
American pilots who served in the UKs Royal Air Force before the USA entered World War II listen

 

From the Summit
Kirt Mosier
starting a journey and ultimately reaching the summitlisten

 

Guardians of the Galaxy (soundtrack highlights)
arr. Michael Brown
you are in the future but rocking out to music from the past – listen

MEDLEY: Marvel Studios Fanfare (2013) Hooked on a Feeling (1968) Come and Get Your Love (1973) Groot Cocoon (2014) Cherry Bomb (1976) Ain't No Mountain High Enough (1967)

 

INTERMISSION

 

 

Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
Fred Rogers/Paul Murtha
songs from the wholesome television show – listen
MEDLEY: Won't You Be My Neighbor? (1967) It's You I Like (1970) It's Such a Good Feeling (1970)

 

The Pops Polka
Arthur Fiedler & Jack Mason/Richard Maltby
remembering Fiedlers nearly 50-year tenure as Boston Pops Orchestras conductor (1930-1979) that popularized lighter symphonic literaturelisten

 

Prohibition Era March
Lloyd Gould del Castillo
originally titled "Near Beer" celebrating 1920-1933 with embedded tunes "How Dry I Am," "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow," and "Funeral March" listen

 

Ramshackle Rag
Ted Snyder/Williams Schulz/Cheryl Woldseth
celebrating syncopated ragtime music (about 1895-1918) and featuring trombone slides – listen

 

So Nice (Summer Samba)
Marcos Valle & Paulo Sergio Valle/James D. Ployhar
1964 bossa nova jazz standard with optional vocalist – listen to the original recording (not the band arrangement)

 

Umpah! Umpah!
George L. Cobb/R. E. Hildreth/Cheryl Woldseth
one-step oddity, ragtime tune used by piano for silent movies, sounds like an orchestrion listen

 

Up Up and Away
Jimmy Webb/Cheryl Woldsethlisten
SAXOPHONE FEATURE – 6-part arrangement just for the saxophone players alone (and instrument-switching players too)

 

ENCORE:  Stars and Stripes Forever
John Phillip Sousa (listen)

 

List of Musicians (as of 5/6/2026)

The host NCCBand members are listed in blue.

 

CONDUCTOR

Cheryl Woldseth

 

FLUTE 1

Diane Beck

George Husaruk

Cory Moody

Laurie Piner (+piccolo)

Betsy Savery (+piccolo)

Michael Smidt (+Db piccolo)

Ariana Vickers (+piccolo)

Susie West

 

FLUTE 2

Amanda Apple

Alice Jacobs (+piccolo)

Miriam Limov

Kris McCarrick

Riley McCarrick

Caitie Nesbitt

Diane Nickerson

Lynn Peshoff

Mary Rose Preston

Leslie Schoenberg

Melanie Douglas Webb

Kay Wedel

Isa Wilburn

 

OBOE

Kit Chesnut (2)

Rebecca Seijas-Ball (1)

 

BASSOON

Bruce Piner

Joshua Tiffany

 

CONTRA-BASSOON

 

Eb CLARINET

Derek Evans (+Bb1)

 

CLARINET 1

Teresa Gaman

Jan Woldseth

 

CLARINET 2

Brendan Allen

Joelle Lake

 

CLARINET 3

Kendra Fifield

Carrie Langkabel

Donna M. Meyer

Lynn Schonder

 

CLARINET, ALTO

David Lake (+Bb1)

James Langdell (+Bb2)

Bill Powell (+Bb3)

 

CLARINET, BASS

Lucas Elardi

Kay McCammond

 

CONTRA-CLARINET

 

SAXOPHONE, SOPRANO

Gary Anderson (+alto1)

Mary Whitmore

 

SAXOPHONE, ALTO 1

Dave Bandler (+soprano)

Andrea McKibben (+picc)

Brian Olson

 

SAXOPHONE, ALTO 2

Ryan Apple

Allen Nickerson

Carla Nordstrom

Phil Preston

 

SAXOPHONE, TENOR

Vega Alvarez

Ethan Conklin

Barbara Corrick

Ted Lindberg

Mark Potampa

Tim Proffitt

Craig Scott

 

SAXOPHONE, BARITONE

Terry Horlick

Julie Gustafson

 

FRENCH HORN

Ken Carter (1)

Steve Fernald (3)

Pat Rosales (2)

Amy Traugot (4)

Adam Zarookian (2)

 

TRUMPET/CORNET 1

John Furtado

Karin Hofland

Ryan McKibben

Jim West (+flugelhorn)

 

TRUMPET/CORNET 2

Ray Blackham (+flugelhorn)

Greg Goodknight

Alex Rosprim

 

TRUMPET/CORNET 3

Oliver Cook

Mark Copland

Lance Haliday

Jim Luckinbill

 

TROMBONE 1

Francis Chew

Stacy Enke

Larry Faller

Mike Sarringar

 

TROMBONE 2

Dave Bear

Chris Hofland

Jason Woldseth

 

TROMBONE 3

Dana Douglas

Art Kharns

 

BARITONE/EUPHONIUM

Bill Bates (TC)

John Gibson (TC)

Tom Larsen (TC)

Roy McKibben (TC)

George Preston (BC)

 

TUBA

Michael Boorstein

Michelle Daniels

Mark Meeker

Walter Webb

 

BASS GUITAR

Bob Burbridge

 

PERCUSSION

Anthony Andino (mallets)

Rowan Ball

Lee Bittner

Michael Ireland

Oliver Muzio (timpani)

Kurt Remick

 

BAND HANDS

Joelle Lake (rehearsal food)

David Rosprim (announcer)

Hugh Shelbourn (stage manager)

Peter Traugot (photographer)

 

 

 


morning rehearsal 7/27/2025 at Pioneer Parks picnic grove

 

lunch time picnic 7/27/2025 at Pioneer Parks picnic grove

 

Prior Band Musician Invitational Events

 

  2025 California: Ability program and YouTube video and Facebook photos and Google photos – plus KVMR podcast

  2024 (earth) WIND (fire & water) program, Facebook photos, Google album, and YouTube video

  2023 Going Places program, Facebook photos, and Google album, and Youtube video

  2020, 2021, and 2022 cancelled due to Covid19 pandemic

  2019 By the 9s program, Facebook photos, and Google album, KVMR broadcast 1st half and Interview and 2nd half, YouTube videos Broadway One-Step, Holiday for Trombones, Rain, Up

  2018 Episode 7: The Basses Strike Back program, Facebook photos. and Google album

  2017 Burning Band program, Google album. and KVMR podcast MP3 link (listen or download it)

 2016 Strange New Worlds program, Facebook photos. and Google album

  2015 Centennial Jubilee program, Facebook photos. and Google album and YouTube

  2014 How Sweet It Is program, Facebook photos. and Google album

  2013 California Dreamin program, Facebook photos, and Google album

  2012 "Along for the Ride" program, Facebook photos, and Google album

  2011 "A Patchwork of American Music" program, Google album, and YouTube video

  2010 "Out of this World" program and Google album

  2009 "Americans We" program and Google album

  2008 "The Spirit of Champions" program, Google album, and YouTube video

  2007 "A River Runs Through It" program, YouTube video

  2006 "Step in Time" program, Google album, and YouTube video

  2005 "You Must Remember This" program and Google album

  2004 The Skys the Limit program and Google album

 

To see more, visit the Nevada County Concert Band website's History page.