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This page updated July 8, 2009 |
Charlotte Concert Band
WHO WE ARE |
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ENGINEERS & ARCHITECTS, MUSIC TEACHERS & MOMS, |
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AND MORE MAKE UP THE CHARLOTTE CONCERT BAND.
Some of us are retirees and some are busy professionals; some are ending careers and some are starting careers; some have families to take care of and some are starting families!
Young or . . . mature, our common bond is our love of
Some of us like the concert band classics best, like the Holst Suites or the works of Clifton Williams, Alfred Reed or Percy Grainger. Others prefer a rousing Sousa or Fillmore march or a Broadway medley, but everyone seems to enjoy a great transcription of an orchestral "warhorse" like Poet and Peasant, Overture to Rienzi or Festive Overture.
CCB members are active performers throughout the Charlotte area. Many of us play in church orchestras, jazz bands, musical theatre orchestras, chamber ensembles, community orchestras and other community bands.
Euphonium player and Queens professor John Repede at his suburban Chicago home in 1965.
CCB members develop friendships that last a lifetime. Some of our members have played together in the band for 30 years; others just moved to Charlotte in the past two or three years. At the first rehearsal, they quickly discovered a warm place to make new acquaintances, learn about Charlotte, find other ensembles to play in or even find someone from their hometown or state. The Charlotte Concert Band proves the theory of "six degrees of separation."
Students at Queens University of Charlotte may participate in the
CCB for aca
For more information about Queens University of Charlotte, visit their web site.
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CCB CONDUCTOR |
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Music Department, Queens
Universi Dr. Donald Morris has more than 30 years of experience conducting public school and university bands in Tennessee, Illinois, South Carolina, Florida, Kentucky and North Carolina including Northwestern University, University of Illinois Chicago, Florida State University, Charleston Southern University, Western Carolina University and Morehead State University. While still an undergraduate, Dr. Morris made his conducting debut leading the Dogwood Arts Festival Chamber Orchestra in Copland's Appalachian Spring (original version for 13 instruments).
Dr. Morris's leadership began in the fall of 1999, and since then the Charlotte Concert Band has grown in size and quality. Their most recent achievement was a performance for the North Carolina Music Educators Conference in November 2008. With the help of Queens professor and euphonium player John Repede, Dr. Morris developed and maintains the CCB website which has attracted most of the band's new members and continues to help us build our audience. Recent concerts have attracted as many as 1200 listeners to our blend of concert band classics and quality popular selections.
Dr. Morris holds a B.S. in Music Education from the University of Tennessee, a Master's in Conducting from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Music Education from Florida State. While at Florida State, Dr. Morris was awarded a Dissertation Fellowship for his research on the life and works of composer Vincent Persichetti. In addition to his dissertation, "The Life and Works of Vincent Persichetti, with Emphasis on the Works for Band," Dr. Morris has been a contributor to the "Teaching Music Through Performance in Band" series and wrote the liner notes for the University of North Texas CD "Composer's Collection: Vincent Persichetti." He has studied conducting with W J Julian, Donald Neuen, John Paynter and James Croft.
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©The Charlotte Concert Band
Music Department, Queens
University of Charlotte, |
making music, a love which began during our school years in band and
continued through colleges such as Indiana, East Carolina, Marshall,
Western Carolina, Tennessee, Connecticut, Florida State, South
Carolina, Winthrop, Duke and North Carolina.
demic
credit. There
are music majors as well as talented non-majors who enroll in
the
CCB each semester. As a smaller
university, Queens offers both an intimate learning environment and
close student-teacher interaction.
Through Queens' sponsorship, the
Charlotte Concert Band gives
students
the opportunity to play challenging repertoire in a large ensemble. Many of our Queens students in the
CCB come
from high schools with outstanding band programs.
