SPEEDWAY – Mark Lortz

ENDURING TRAVELER – Larry Clark

RED HILLS SAGA – Robert Thurston

AT SUNRISE – Robert Romeyn

FIVE MISSISSIPPI RUSH – Clifton Taylor

HOPE LIES IN DREAMS – Larry Clark

COLONEL BOGEY – Kenneth J. Alford

DANZAS CUBANAS– Robert Sheldon

A CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL – Leroy Anderson

TRUMPET
John Acosta, Retired Music Educator, Administrator
*John Baker, Professor of Trumpet, HCC
Cyndi Burchfield, Retired Music Educator
Richard Crawford, Pharmacist
Matt King, Professor of History, USF
Terry Molesky, Self Employed
Sherlyn Padron, HCC Student
Roberto Plumey, NYPD Retired
Chris Shultz, Music Teacher
Michael Vail, Retired Music Educator
John Whitaker, Software Consultant

HORN
Philip Booth, Writer/Editor
Christina Frye, Retired Music Educator
Jackie Hall, Music Educator
*Bradley Harp, Sales Account Manager
James Mayo, Music Educator
Jorge Robles, HCC Student
Bryan Santana, Engineer
Cameron Tilson, HCC Student

TROMBONE
Raymond Deckert, Retired, Military
Mike Henry, IT Manager – Duke Energy
*Lewis Lopez, Epidemiology – Graduate Student
Moses Maldonado, HCC Student
Michael Perez, HCC Student
Walt Shaffner, Retired Music Educator/Administrator

BASS TROMBONE
Vince Chrisman, Retired, I.T. Executive

EUPHONIUM
Brianna Emge, Music Educator
Rick Hatfield, Retired Music Educator
Edgar Kilborn, Retired Engineer

TUBA
Douglas Barlar, Ph.D., Retired Collegiate Music Educator
James Coyne, DNP , Nurse Practitioner/Former Music Ed.
Daniel Hadden, Parts Specialist at Publix
*Leigh Simonton, Music Educator
Robert Singelton, HCC Student

PERCUSSION
Sarah Arnold, HCC Student
*Steve Brown, TV Productions/Retired Musician
Jason Emory, Music Educator
Ayden Kelly, HCC Student
Sam Koppelman, C.P.A. – Retired
Manuel Rosadilla, Software Engineer
Jae Xiong, Music Educator

PIANO
Kathy Baker, Accompanist, Freelance Musician

Conductor Ted M. Hope has served as the conductor of the Fanfare Winds and Hillsborough Community College for the past 10 years. He was affiliated with the Hillsborough County School District for 39 years and retired as the Supervisor of Middle and Secondary Music after 19 years of service in March of 2023. He received his Associates Degree from Hillsborough Community College, Bachelor of Music Education from Florida State University, and his Master of Music Education and Education Specialist from the University of Southern Mississippi. He subsequently taught in the public schools for twenty years as band director at Hillsborough High School (1984-1987) and Bloomingdale High School (1987-2004). He is a member of the Florida Bandmasters Association where he served as chairman and secretary. Mr. Hope’s professional affiliations include Music Educators National Conference, Hillsborough County Secondary Music Council, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the Bay Area Saxophone Quartet and the Hillsborough Association of School Administrators. Mr. Hope is an active clinician and adjudicator in concert band, jazz ensemble, and marching band.

Conductor Alli Howard earned her bachelor’s degree in music education in 1999 from the University of Arizona, studying saxophone with Michael Hester and Kelland Thomas. In 2004 Howard earned a Master’s degree in Wind Band Conducting from the University of Arizona. As Interim Associate Director of Bands / Director of Athletic Bands at the University of Arizona, Howard was the Director of the Pride of Arizona Marching Band and Pep Bands, was a conductor for the Wind Symphony, taught various music education courses and the Marching Band Leadership course. She was also the chapter sponsor for Tau Beta Sigma. Before her appointment to the University of Arizona, Howard served as the Director of Bands and the Fine Arts Department head at Rio Rico High School, and also as the Band Coordinator for the Santa Cruz Valley School District in Rio Rico, AZ. In 2012 Howard earned the Santa Cruz Valley School District Teacher of the Year Award. During her twenty-two years of public-school teaching, Howard has also been a guest conductor and adjudicator for bands around the state of Arizona. She was an active member of AMEA (Arizona Music Education Association), serving for four years as the South-Central Region Solo & Ensemble chair, and briefly as AMEA Member-at-Large. She was also a clinician and adjudicator for ABODA (Arizona Band and Orchestra Directors Association). Ms. Howard is currently the Orchestra Director at Robinson High School. She has taught public school band and orchestra in Florida for eight years and is currently an active member of FMEA (Florida Music Education Association). She is an adjunct instructor with Hillsborough Community College and performs with the Fanfare Concert Winds in Tampa on baritone saxophone.

Conductor Larry Clark is one of the most popular and most performed composers of music for school concert band and orchestra. His music is characterized by rhythmic verve, tuneful melodies, contains a fresh harmonic perspective, is well scored and stretches the musicianship of the performers. Larry travels the world presenting clinic/workshops and guest conducting appearances. His background as a former middle school and university band director at Syracuse University, combined with his composing and editing, have placed Larry at the forefront of music for school ensembles. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from Florida State University and Masters Degree in Conducting from James Madison University in Virginia. For more information: www.larryclarkmusic.com.

SPEEDWAY (2018) – Mark Lortz

This highly programmatic piece depicts a high-speed car race. The sections include the start of the engines, pole position, a caution flag, restart, and the victory lap. Commissioned by and dedicated to the Folly Quarter Middle School Band in Ellicott City, Maryland, Andrew Spang, Conductor. This piece is sure to get everybody’s engines running at high rpms!

ENDURING TRAVELER (2023) – Larry Clark
This piece and performance dedicated to the memory of Daniel J. Schmidt

Larry Clark – Conductor
For many years I have been enamored with the hauntingly beautiful folk song Poor Wayfaring Stranger and have wanted to use it as the basis for a piece for band for quite some time. The plaintive song originated sometime in the 19th century around the time of the Civil War. It has been sung and made famous by artists such as Johnny Cash, Burl Ives, and Ed Sheeran, and most recently featured in the war movie 1917. The lyrics paint the picture of a person’s journey through life:

I know dark clouds will gather ‘round me
I know my way is hard and steep
Yet beauteous fields arise before me
Where God’s redeemed their vigils keep

I’m going there to see my Mother
She said she’d meet me when I come
I’m just goin’ over Jordan
I’m just goin’ over home

I wanted this setting to capture the haunting beauty of the song along with the powerful nature of the message of the lyrics through colorful instrumental textures, lush harmonic usage, and powerful orchestrations to bring the song to an emotional and powerful climax and resolution.

RED HILLS SAGA (2017) – Robert Thurston

Alli Howard – Conductor
The Red Hills Region-also known as the Tallahassee Hills-extends northward from Tallahassee, Florida, across the Georgia line into Thomasville, covering about 475 square miles between the Ochlocknee and Aucilla rivers. This area is rich in cultural history and scenic beauty. They’ll hear hints of Native American stylings that add to the uniqueness of this sophisticated concert band piece. There is a nice pavane tempo change in the middle section that provides a respite, breaking up the driving outer sections of the piece.

AT SUNRISE (2013) – Robert Romeyn

Inspired by a sunrise over the water in the composer’s home state of Florida, At Sunrise includes a beautiful and memorable melody moving amid changes textures and harmonies, leading to a magnificent full ensemble. The piece begins gently, with a transparent quality to portray lyric sounds presented here with uncommon sensitivity leading to a dramatic final climax. From here, the work subsides, ending as it began leaving a spell not soon forgotten.

FIVE MISSISSIPPI RUSH (2021) – Clifton Taylor

A Five Mississippi Rush is often used in pickup football games where there is no offensive line and the defense is obliged to wait approximately three seconds before crossing the line of scrimmage to pursue the quarterback. The defensive players charges with rushing the quarterback chant out loud, as quickly as possible, getter louder as they reach the end and begin running:

ONE -Mississippi…TWO-Mississippi…THREE Mississippi…FOUR Mississippi…FIVE Mississippi

The composer writes, “Beginning with the rhythm of this chant as the germ of the piece, I composed Five Mississippi Rush from the combination of three things suggested to me by the title: “five,” Mississippi’s heritage as the birthplace of the blues, and hurrying to a conclusion.”

HOPE LIES IN DREAMS (2023) – Larry Clark

Larry Clark – Conductor
Hope Lies In Dreams was commissioned by the Hillsborough County Secondary Music Council in honor of the incredible work of their Secondary Music Supervisor Ted Hope, to commemorate his retirement after a long and illustrious career in music education.

As a long-time friend of Mr. Hope since college, I was honored to be asked to write this piece for Ted’s retirement concert. He has been a constant in the Tampa area music education scene his entire career. First as a successful band director and then for many years he has guided the secondary music programs of the Hillsborough County district, which is the seventh largest school district in the country.

This piece is meant to celebrate his successful career. It begins in a celebratory and upbeat manner to mark the beginning as an enthusiastic young music educator. The whole composition is built around 5 notes, that are used in a variety of orders in the various themes. Ted loves mixed-meter compositions, and so the piece moves from the opening fanfare to a rousing section in 7/8 time. It honors him further by giving the main theme in the lyrical middle section of the piece to the saxophone soloist (Ted’s instrument) in a dreamlike setting, that is followed by a feature for the whole saxophone section. The piece concludes how it began with enthusiasm and optimism for the future.

COLONEL BOGEY (2000) – Kenneth J. Alford/arr. Andrew Glover

The inspiration for Colonel Bogey has never been fully documented. One popular legend tells of Ricketts strolling on a golf course in 1913 when a golfer whistled an interval of the descending minor third as a warning. The interval was used as the basis for the famous melody of the first strain and hence, on a golf course, Colonel “Bogey” was born! The march was first published in 1914.

DANZAS CUBANAS (2010) – Robert Sheldon

Danzas Cubanas is a set of three original dance-like movements celebrating the joy and energy of Afro-Cuban music and people of this island nation. The opening conga sets the mood, followed by a gentle and alluring son-salsa. The closing dance is a fast-paced mambo. An excellent multi-cultural music experience, the three interconnected dances feature solos for piano, trombone, flute, and trumpet.

A CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL (1950) – Leroy Anderson

A Christmas Festival, composed in 1950, is a concert overture built upon traditional Christmas songs. Originally recorded by the Boston Pops, it is the Christmas medley that sets the standard for all others. Anderson has encompassed the joy, celebration, and solemnity of Christmas in his arrangements of Joy To The World • Deck the Halls • God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen • Good King Wenceslas • Hark! The Herald Angels Sing • The First Noel • Silent Night • Jingle Bells and O Come, All Ye Faithful.

Platinum
Joni Long
Gloria and Rosie Stagi
(in memory of Joe Stagi)
Kathryn Thorson
Dawn White

Bronze
Alli Howard Tampa Realty
Andrew Altman
Ian Crumpton
Jacqueline DeBeer
Debbie Eisenstadt
Mark Frederick
Emily Garrett
Bradley Harp
Tina Hill
Niki Holmes Kantzios
Aaron Kaplan
Kay Kleinhample
Andrew Krupski
Terri & Hank Molesky
Dale A. Roberts
Larry Smith
Sally C. Spencer
Yajaira Suarez
Amy Tramer
Carmel vanHoek
Gregory Vass
John Walker
George Zucker

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The Fanfare Concert Winds has earned its reputation as the premier hybrid community/college band in Tampa Bay through a combination of exceptional musicianship, community engagement, and a commitment to musical excellence. One key factor is the band’s unique blend of talented musicians, comprising both seasoned community members, current and former music teachers, and dedicated Hillsborough Community college students. This diverse composition brings together individuals with a wide range of musical experiences and backgrounds challenging a rich and dynamic ensemble that appeals to a broad audience.

The band’s commitment to musical excellence is evident in its rigorous rehearsal schedule and the pursuit of challenging repertoire. Under the direction of skilled conductors, section leaders, and instructors, Fanfare Concert Winds consistently delivers performances that showcase both technical proficiency and emotional depth. This dedication to artistic achievement not only enhances the musicians’ skills but also elevates the overall musical experience for the audience, contributing to the band’s recognition as one of the best in the Tampa Bay region.

Community engagement and education plays a pivotal role in the Fanfare Concert Winds’ success. The band actively promotes new teacher involvement and educational outreach programs. This action only strengthens the ensemble’s connection with area band directors by “building their resilience”, but also with its audience while promoting a sense of pride and unity among its members. By serving as cultural ambassadors in the Tampa Bay area, the Fanfare Concert Winds has become an integral part of the community, further solidifying its reputation as the top hybrid community/college band in the region.

Fanfare Concert Winds would like to thank Ken Hanks, Chair of Visual and Performing Arts, and Ruthie Nelson, Director of Choral Activities of Hillsborough Community College for their encouragement and support.

Fanfare Concert Winds is a “Not for Profit” Organization. That means that all donations to our organization are 100% tax deductible.

Please consider a donation to Fanfare Concert Winds to help defray the cost of music.

Our tax number is 47-49031478.

You can give a check tonight (see Dana or Ted) OR:

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Fanfare Concert Winds
9465 Forest Hills Place
Tampa, FL 33612

Thank you for attending tonight’s concert!

VISION
The Fanfare Concert Winds will contribute to the musical culture and community throughout Hillsborough County by providing quality music performance and educational experiences for the young and the young at heart.

MISSION
• To facilitate a venue for music educators, professional and community musicians and Hillsborough Community College students to come together in a professional-level ensemble.
• To supplement the music education of the Hillsborough County Public Schools and Hillsborough Community College through clinics, side-by-side concerts, festivals and scholarships.
• To expose our members and audiences to quality musical literature.