Synod Senior Band (MN)
                  Seniors playing popular and sacred music for Seniors

      Music Director: Nick vanDuzee,  Emeritus Director: Emmett Stark
     
Administrator: Gigi Kornfuehrer  Communications/Web: Dick Peik
       

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   {Renewed March 20, 2024}


                  

  New 2024 Season,
   Rehearse 10:00a-12:15p
                  March-October,
                     with all July off!

             at our longtime host:

          Westwood Lutheran Church,
          9001 Cedar Lake Rd, 
St. LouisPark
           (East 8 blocks from US-169, S of I-394)    

   Kickoff: Tuesday, March 26
  First Concert: May 30 @3:30p
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  Membership:  Our '23 Roster had some 90 players!
                         but we always welcome more (no audition).

                 (Eager percussionists especially welcome!)
    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 Conceert Schedule

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

June 11 Concert—Friendship Village, Bloomington             3:00p

June 25 Concert—Transfiguration LC, Bloomington           11:00a

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

                All-July BREAK

August 25 Westwood Sunday service                              10:00a

September 10 Concert-- St. Philip the Deacon LC, Plymouth 1:00p

September 20 Concert—Salem Covenant, Coon Rapids      1:00p

September 24 Concert— Bethlehem LC, Minnetonka          7:00p

October 13 Concert--Gethsemane LC, Hopkins                   4:00p

October 15 Rehearsal followed by Annual Lunch               10:00a

October 22 Concert-- WestwoodLC 'home' concert            11:00a                        
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 New 2024 Repertoire:

Alleluia - Hindemith/vDz

Amazing Grace - Ticheli

Beach Boy's Greatest Hits - arr.Brown

A Child's Embrace - Young

*Hava Nagila - arr. Bobrowitz

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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