Membership:  Our current Roster had some 80 players!
                         but we always welcome more (no audition).
                 (Eager percussionists especially welcome!)

        Season is April-October - and always with all of July off.

    Concerts (9 scheduled for '24) are usually in daytime,
                    in western Twin Cities locations.   
                                                            
   COVID policy: Vaccination / masking not required . 
        Being up-to-date vaccinated is STRONGLY! recommended.
     
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2024 Concert Schedule

May 30 @  3:30p—City of Chaska Parks & Recreation

June  1 @  3:00p—Friendship Village, Bloomington

June 25 @11:00a—Transfiguration LCh, Bloomington

June 28 @  7:00p—Trillium Woods, Plymouth

                {All-July BREAK}

August 25 @10:00a--Westwood LCh Sunday service

September 10 @ 1:00p  St. Philip Deacon LCh, Plymouth

September 20 @ 1:00p  Salem Covenant Ch, New Brighton

September 24 @ 7:00p Bethlehem LCh, Minnetonka

October 13 @   4:00p Gethsemane LCh, Hopkins

October 15 @~12:00n Annual Lunch post-rehearsal

October 22 @11:00a WestwoodLCh 'home' concert                        
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 New 2024 Repertoire:

Alleluia - Hindemith/vanDuzee

Amazing Grace - Ticheli

Beach Boy's Greatest Hits - arr.Brown

A Child's Embrace - Young

Hava Nagila - arr. Bobrowitz

Irish Tune from County Derry - Grainger

Suite of Old American Dances movements - Bennett

Sweet Rag - Sweet

Wien Tagen - Wig

2023 Season Repertoire retained:

• Flourish for Wind Band        Ralph Vaughn Williams
  Pageant                               Vincent Persichetti
  Side Partners [Trumpet duo] Herbert L. Clarke
  Music of the Beatles             arr. Sweeney
  Air for Band                          Frank Erickson
  Hebraic Fantasie                  David Bobrowitz
  Mini-Suite                             Morton Gould
  Wade in the Water               arr. Stephan Bulla
  Winds of Change                 Bob Dylan (arr.Kinyon)
    encore: Stars & Stripes Forever    John Philip Sousa
  

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Audio-Video SSB Recordings - on YouTube!:
  To see/hear videos of our recent-year concerts,
  go to our YouTube channel "SynodSeniorBand-MN"
  anyone can subscribe).

   2023 SSB concerts have been posted on YT by host locations:
      June, at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Minneapolis
      Sep  , at St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church, Plymouth

  Concerts for 2021 and 2019 also are on this YT channel

  2021 Restart Concert, Nov.9, 2021 video at Gethsemane LC (Hopkins)
   Circus Days - Karl King
   Broadway Journey - arr. Christensen
   Chorale and Shaker Dance II - Zdechlik (cond. by Phil Raaen)
   French Horn Rag - Al Sweet
   Sons of Liberty - Neeck
   Ave Maria - Biebl/arr. Serber (conducted by Tom Engquist)
   St. Louis Blues - W.C. Handy/arr. Henderson
   Skippidy Hoppidy - Al Sweet
   Seventy Six Trombones - Willson/arr. Bocook
  2019 Finale Concert, Oct.26 video at Westwood LC (St. Louis Park) 
    Minnesota March
    Chorale and Shaker Dance II (Phil Raaen cond.)
        Latina (Dick Papke cond.)
    Ave Maria (Serber arr.) (Tom Engquist cond.)
    On the Edge polka
    Heartstorm (Jim McCreary composer)
    Cabalina
    Prince in Concert
    Gopher Variations (Nick VanDuzee cond.)
    Stars and Stripes Forever

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