GSCB 2024-25 Season
MMC Winter Concert
Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024 @ 3pm
Joint concert with Grand Street Community Band, Kings County Concert Band, and Brooklyn Wind Symphony
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
MMC Modern Wind Symphony
Saturday, Mar. 22, 2025 @ 3pm
Joint concert with Grand Street Community Band, Kings County Concert Band, and Brooklyn Wind Symphony
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
MMC Spring Concert
Saturday, May 17, 2025 @ 3pm
Joint concert with Grand Street Community Band, Kings County Concert Band, and Brooklyn Wind Symphony
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
GSCB 2023-24 Season
MMC Winter Concert
Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023 @ 3pm
Joint concert with Grand Street Community Band and Kings County Concert Band
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
MMC Modern Wind Symphony
Saturday, Mar. 2, 2024 @ 3pm
Joint concert with Grand Street Community Band and Kings County Concert Band
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
MMC Spring Concert
Saturday, May 18, 2024 @ 3pm
Joint concert with Grand Street Community Band and Kings County Concert Band
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
GSCB 2022-23 Season
MMC Autumn Concert
Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022 @ 6pm
Joint concert with Grand Street Concert Band and Kings County Concert Band
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
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Halcyon Hearts: An Overture for Love
Katajh CopleyBe Thou My Vision
Traditional Irish Tune arranged by Travis J. CrossAmerican Hymnsong Suite
Dwayne S. MilburnPsalm for Band
Vincent Persichetti
Columbia University 2023 Festival of Winds
Sunday, April 2, 2023 @ 1:30pm
Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony
Location: Roone Arledge Auditorium at Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University (W. 116th St @ Broadway).
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Rise
Adam Schoenberg
Mock Morris
Percy Grainger, arr. Joesph Kreines
Letters
Kelijah Dunton
Postcard form Sequoia
Nicole Piunna
GSCB 2021-22 Season
MMC Winter Concert
Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 @ 6pm
Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony and Kings County Concert Band
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Flutter
William Pitts
Elegy
Matt Klohs
Alegre
Tani León
A Place in Time
Kelijah Dutton
A Song for Tomorrow
Kevin Day
Modern Wind Symphony
Saturday, March 26, 2022 @ 6pm
Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony and Kings County Concert Band
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
In Two Places
Haley Woodrow
Here We Rest
Anthony Barfield
Suite from MASS
Leonard Bernstein, arr. Michael Sweeney
Featuring the Hudson Brass Quintet from West Point
MMC Spring Concert
Saturday, May 21, 2022 @ 6pm
Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony and Kings County Concert Band
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
And the grass sings on the meadows
Travis J. Cross
American Elegy
Frank Ticheli
First Suite in E-flat for Military Band
Gustav Holst
A Mother of a Revolution!
Omar Thomas
Cave of the Winds
Robert Nathaniel Dett
GSCB 2020-21 Season
In late 2020, the members of MMC came together to play Stillwater by Kelijah Dunton in this virtual band performance.
Kelijah is a graduate of the Grand Street Campus High School, the home of MMC, and he is a friend and member of MMC. Kelijah wrote Stillwater when he witnessed the natural wonder of a partially frozen pond in Minnesota, where he was awarded as a leading composer of color.
During May of 2021, MMC restarted after a 14 month pandemic pause. We came together to make music in three small ensembles, a Jazz Band, a Woodwind Ensemble and a Brass Choir.
Each ensemble met 4 times and prepared a 15 minute digital concert to celebrate a return to in person music making. Given reopening challenges, our organization grew in its artistry, resilience and teamwork.
GSCB 2019-20 Season
MMC Winter Concert
Saturday, Dec. 14th @ 3pm
Joint concert with Kings County Concert Band and Brooklyn Wind Symphony
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Shortcut Home
Dana Wilson
Lux Aurumque
Eric Whitacre
Joy Revisited
Frank Ticheli
Air for Band
Frank Erickson
Let the Amen Sound
Travis J. Cross
Spring 2020 Virtual Ensemble
When our physical rehearsals came to an abrupt halt during the COVID-19 pandemic, the members of the Metropolitan Music Community created a virtual band to perform Michael Markowski’s “Brooklyn Air” under the direction of Jeff W. Ball. In this time of extreme unrest and uncertainty, we wanted to share something positive with our friends and supporters while we continue our work of building an inclusive musical community for all.
GSCB 2018-19 Season
MMC Winter Concert
Saturday, Dec. 15th @ 3pm
Joint concert with Kings County Concert Band and Brooklyn Wind Symphony
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Viking March
Karl King
Down a Country Lane
Copland
arr. Patterson
Albanian Dance
Shelley Hanson
Bali
Michael Colgrass
Saturn Returns
Michael Markowski
Ukrainian Bell Carol
Traditional
arr. Andrew Wainwright
MMC Modern Wind Symphony Concert
Saturday, Mar. 23rd @ 3pm
Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
After a Gentle Rain
Anthony Iannaccone
Arabian Dances
Brian Balmages
Terpsichorean Dances
Jodie Blackshaw
Bandancing
Mvt. I, III
Jack Stamp
Equus
Eric Whitacre
MMC Spring Concert
Saturday, May 18th @ 3pm
Joint concert with Kings County Concert Band and Brooklyn Wind Symphony
Location: 850 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
An Outdoor Overture
Aaron Copland
Salvation Is Created
Tchesnokoff
arr. Houseknecht
Marriage of Figaro (Overture)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
arr. Takahaski
The Planets: Jupiter
Gustav Holst
arr. Janssen
Colas Breugnon (Overture)
Kabalevsky
arr. Beeler
GSCB 2017-18 Season
Our Favorite Things, Part 3
Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017 @ 7pm
Joint concert with Manhattan Wind Ensemble
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Jazz Suite #2
Dimitri Shostakovich
arr. Johan DeMeij
Sleep
Eric Whitacre
On This Bright Morning
David Maslanka
Scootin' on the Hardrock
David Holsinger
Second Suite in F
Gustav Holst
Warhorses
Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017 @ 7pm
Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Rhapsody on Christmas Carols
Claude T. Smith
The Eighth Candle
Steve Reistetter
O Magnum Mysterium
Morten Lauridsen
arr. H Robert Reynolds
In the Bleak Midwinter
Holst
arr. Smith
Bugler's Holiday
Leroy Anderson
Nutcracker Suite: I, II, III
Tchaikovsky
arr. Rogan/McAlister/Reed
Modern Wind Symphony
Sunday, March 11, 2018 @ 3pm
Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Red Line Tango
John Mackey
One Life Beautiful
Julie Giroux
Lincolnshire Posy
Percy Grainger
On the Mall
Edwin Franko Goldman
MMC 10th Anniversary Concert
Sunday, June 3, 2018 @ 3pm
Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony and Kings County Concert Band
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Resplendent Glory
Rossano Galante
Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Ralph Vaughan Williams
arr. Gregson
The Quest: Symphony No.3 "Don Quixote"
Robert W. Smith
guest conductor James P. Stephens
Reckoning
Michael Markowski
Special Appearances
Columbia Festival of Winds
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Lerner Hall
2920 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
PROGRAM
Red Line Tango - John Mackey
On the Mall - Edwin Franko Goldman
One Life Beautiful - Julie Giroux
Lincolnshire Posy - Percy Grainger
Association of Concert Bands 2018 Conference
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Buffalo, New York
PROGRAM
Resplendent Glory - Rossano Galante
The Quest: Symphony No. 3 "Don Quixote" - Robert W. Smith
- with special guest conductor Robert W. Smith
One Life Beautiful - Julie Giroux
Reckoning - Michael Markowski
O Magnum Mysterium - Morten Lauridsen
Red Line Tango - John Mackey
GSCB 2016-17 Season
Our Favorite Things, Part 2
Saturday Dec. 10, 2016 @ 7pm
Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Festive Overture
Dimitri Shostakovich
arr. Donald Hunsberger
Shenandoah
Frank Ticheli
Variations on a Korean Folk Song
John Barnes Chance
October
Eric Whitacre
Lord of the Rings:
Movements I: “Gandalf” & V: “Hobbits”
Johan de Meij
Modern Wind Symphony
Sunday, March 19, 2017 @ 3pm
Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Mother Earth
David Maslanka
Masque
Kenneth Hasketh
Savannah River Holiday
Ron Nelson
Red Sky
Anthony Barfield
Jon Whitaker - Professor of Trombone - University of Alabama
Vesuvius
Frank Ticheli
An American Tapestry
Saturday, June 3, 2017 @ 7pm
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Danzas Cubanos
Robert Sheldon
The Promise of Living
Aaron Copland
The House I Live In
Arabesque
Samuel R. Hazo
Largo from Symphony #9
Antonín Dvořák
Lincoln Portrait
Aaron Copland
Conga Del Fuego Nuevo Danzon #2
Arturo Marquez
arr. O. Nickel
2017 New York Sounds of Summer International Music Festival
Tuesday, June 13, 2017 @ 8pm
Also featuring:
Yolo Community Band
Owensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra
Stadtmusik Stockach
Location: Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10019
Ticket information coming soon
PROGRAM
Lord of the Rings:
Movement I: “Gandalf”
Johan de Meij
The Promise of Living
Aaron Copland
Danzas Cubanas
Robert Sheldon
Pantomime for Euphonium and Band
Featuring Isaiah Figueroa, euphonium
Philip Sparke
Vesuvius
Frank Ticheli
GSCB 2015-16 Season
Things That Go Bump in the Night: A Halloween Concert
Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015 @ 3pm
Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Abracadabra
Frank Ticheli
Dance of the Witches
John Williams
Funeral March of a Marionette
Gounod
Incantation and Dance
Chance
Music for a Darkened Theater
Elfman
Sorcerers Apprentice
Dukas
40 under 40 (40 minutes of music featuring under 40 composers)
Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015 @ 7pm
Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Camerado
Michael Markowski
Foundry
John Mackey
The Magician
Jordyn Gallinek
ghettoblaster
William Pitts
Dusk
Stephen Bryant
Magnolia Star
Steve Danyew
ConFUSION?! Music of the Third Stream
Sunday, Mar. 20, 2016 @ 3pm
Joint concert with Brooklyn Wind Symphony
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Blue Shades
Ticheli
Elixir
Michael Markowski
Rubies
John Harbison
Fusion
Brian Balmages
Asphalt Cocktail
John Mackey
Irish Night At The Pops
Friday, June 3, 2016 @ 8pm
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
At Kitty O'Shea's
Johan de Meij
Be Thou My Vision
Travis J. Cross
Molly on the Shore
Percy Grainger
Irish Tune from County Derry
Percy Grainger
The President's March
Victor Herbert
Sarsfield's Men
J.M. Doyle
Amhrán na bhFiann
Col. J.R. McGee
Irish Suite
Leroy Anderson
Star Spangled Spectacular
George M. Cohan
Summer 2015
Grand Street Community Band plays Carnegie Hall
Saturday, June 6, 2015 @ 8pm
PROGRAM
Suite in Eb for Military Band by Gustav Holst
Rest by Frank Ticheli
Procession of Nobles by Rimsky-Korsakov
City Trees by Michael Markowski
Kingfishers Catch Fire by John Mackey
GSCB 2014-15 Season
Our Favorite Things
Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014 @ 6pm
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Suite in Eb for Military Band
Gustav Holst
Armenian Dances (Part 1)
Alfred Reed
Toccata Marziale
Vaugn Williams
O Magnum Mysterium
Morten Lauridsen
Florentiner March
Julius Fučik
Special Preview Performance
Saturday, Dec. 6 @ 7pm
Location: The New Utrecht Reformed Church at 1827 84th St. Brooklyn, NY 11214
A Night at the Opera
Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014 @ 1:30pm
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
With Susan E. Wagner High School Symphonic Band
Paul Corn, assistant principal of the arts, conductor
PROGRAM
Susan E. Wagner High School Symphonic Band
Enchanted Spaces
Samuel Hazo
Dreamland
Michael Markowski
Selections From Wicked Stephen Schwartz
Arr. Jay Bocook
A Christmas Festival
Leroy Anderson
Grand Street Community Band
Triumphal March
Giuseppe Verdi
Arr. Douglas A. Richard
Pineapple Pole
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Arr. Charles Mackerras
Danse Bacchanale
Camille Saint-Saens
Procession of the Nobles
Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov
Te Deum
Giacomo Puccini
Arr. Johan de Meij
Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral
Richard Wagner
Modern Wind Symphony
Saturday, Mar. 21, 2015 @ 6pm
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Fanfare to The Hammer
Anthony O’Toole
Odyssey
Nicholas Flagello
I Am
Andrew Boysen
City Trees
Michael Markowski
Kingfishers Catch Fire
John Mackey
The Great American Songbook
Saturday, May 30, 2015 @ 7pm
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Overture to Funny Girl
Jule Styne
Arr. Charles Rosen
Selections from Oklahoma
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Arr. Robert Russell Bennett
Trans. for band by R. Mark Rogers
Vocal Chart TBD
Jason Gotay, vocalist
Waltz from Carousel
Richard Rodgers
Arr. Robert Russell Bennett
Intermission
Overture to Candide
Leonard Bernstein
Arr. Clare Grundman
Laurel Stinson, guest conductor
Something's Coming from West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein
Arr. Michael Markowski
Jason Gotay, vocalist
Symphonic Dances from Fiddler on the Roof
Jerry Bock
Arr. Ira Hearshen
Selections from Porgy and Bess
George and Ira Gershwin
Arr. James Barnes
GSCB 2013-14 Season
A Fall Concert
Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013 @ 2pm
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Mark Camphouse
Heartland Sketches
George Gershwin
Second Prelude
Arr. by John Krance
Laurel Stinson, conductor
Michael Markowski
Dreamland
Eric Whitacre
Lux Aurumque
Vincent Persichetti
Divertimento for Band
I. Prologue
II. Song
III. Dance
IV. Burlesque
V. Soliloquy
VI. March
A Road Trip Across America Part 1: To The South and Southwest
Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013 @ 1:30pm
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Morton Gould
Yankee Doodle
Samuel Barber (trans. Richard Saucedo)
Sure on this Shining Night
Michael Markowski
Turkey in the Straw
John Mackey
Sheltering Sky
Frank Ticheli
San Antonio Dances
I. The Alamo
II. Tex-Mex on The Riverwalk
Modern Wind Symphony
Saturday, Mar. 22, 2014 @ 1:30pm
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Stephen Bryant
Ectastic Fanfare
Frank Ticheli
Rest
Sgt. Joseph M. Bello from The United States Air Force Band, guest conductor
Steven Reineke
New Day Rising / Symphony No. 1
** New York Premiere! **
A Night at the Movies
Saturday, June 14, 2014 @ 7pm
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Jule Styne
Overture to "Gypsy" Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Lenard Bernstein Three Dance Episodes from "On the Town"
Arr. Marice Stith
Michael Giacchino, Alexander Courage & Gene Roddenberry Star Trek
Arr. Jay Bocook
John Williams
Cowboys
Arr. Jim Curnow
Eric Coates
Dam Busters
Arr. W.J. Duthoit
Ernest Gold
Exodus
Arr. Alfred Reed
Summer 2013
Prospect Park Concert, Saturday, July 13, 2012 @ 2pm
Location: Concert Grove (Oriental Pavilion) at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY
GSCB 2012-13 Season
GSCB Revival Concert: A New Tradition
Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012
@ 1:30pm
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Holst
Second Suite in F for Military Band
Grieg (Shaver)
Funeral March
Shostakovich
Folk Dances
Arnold
Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo
Modern Wind Symphony
Saturday, Mar. 16, 2013
@ 2pm
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Maslanka
Procession of the Academics
Persichetti
Pageant
Tschesnokoff
Salvation is Created (arr. Bill Houseknecht)
Vaughan Williams
English Folk Song Suite
A Spring Celebration
Saturday, June 15, 2013
@ 1:30pm
Location: 850 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY (Grand Street High School Campus Auditorium)
PROGRAM
Stamp
Fanfare for a New Era
Grainger
Colonial Song
Dvořák
Slavonic Dance #8 (arr. Safranek)
Dello Joio
Scenes from the Louvre