August 2026: American Soundscape 

Performance 

Saturday, August 15,  4:00pm (2:30pm call) –  Covenant Harbor, 1724 W Main St, Lake Geneva

Rehearsals will be held at the Badger High School (220 E. South St. Lake Geneva) orchestra room, from 7:00–9:30pm.
Wednesday, August 12
Thursday, August 13
Friday, August 14 (dress rehearsal)

Program
(Click on each title for a recording.) 

Star Spangled Banner
Aaron Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man
Richard Rodgers, Selections from The Sound of Music
       CUT #1: after playing m114, skip to Allegro animato (m139)
       CUT #2: after playing m192, skip to the next Allegro (m225)
       CUT #3: hold the downbeat of m328, then sip to m385 and play to the end. 
Clare Ewing Grundman, American Folk Rhapsody No.1
      CUT: after the downbeat of m60, go to m104 and play to the end. 
Duke Ellington, Cotton Tail almost exact arrangement HERE (does not include the intro in our version)
Alan Silvestri, Music from Back to the Future
Taylor Swift on Tour
George Gershwin, An American in Paris Suite
       CUT: after m102, skip to the trumpet 1 eighth-note pickup before m159.
John Philip Sousa, Semper Fidelis
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Selections from Hamilton
Leonard Bernstein, Overture to Candide
John Williams,Throne Room and Finale from Star Wars

CLICK HERE for a complete Spotify playlist. 

CLICK HERE for string parts with bowings.  

Flute
1. Sue Childress
2. Cyndi Salata
picc. Shari Weber

Oboe
1 Lisa Bradley
2/EH TBA

Clarinet
1. Danielle Hudson
2. Lauren Schahczinski
Bass. John Hilgers

Bassoon
Mitch Strom

Horn (parts TBA)
Bruce Martin
Jennifer Souder
Leah Young
Meg Larson-Freeman

Trumpet
1. Bill McGee
2. Erin Mays
3. Ron Weaver
4. Tom Lovejoy

Trombone
1. Dave Dvorak
2. David Aguilar Hernandez
3. Bob Trapp
4. Owen Johnson

Tuba
Eireann Murphy

Timpani/Percussion
Stacey Zwirlein
Larry Ault
Jessie Myers
Thorfinn Kidwell

Piano
Dave Childress

Saxophone
Dave Childress
Sue Childress
Dave Beach
Scott Menefee
Myles Derickson