Join the Band!

Membership in the band is open to any high school graduate or adult that has played in a concert band and wishes to perform great concert band music. Become a member through the Forest Hills Community Education program. Follow this link to sign up for the Fall 2010 experience.

Our members pay a tuition per semester. For more membership information, contact our membership chairperson at membership@fhacb.org.

Past programs

December 2009:

Festival Prelude – Alfred Reed
A Rhapsody on Christmas Carols – Cluade T. Smith
Carol of the Shepherds – arr. Philip Sparke
Troika -Sergei Prokofiev, arr. Jim Curnow
Little Fuge – J. S. Bach, arr. Ronald Romm, Calvin Custer
Chorale and Shaker Dance – John P. Zdechlik
A Christmas Festival – Leroy Anderson

October 2009:

Marche Des Parachutisted Belges – Pierre Leemans
Ballet Parisien – Jacques Offenbach
Pastime: A Salute to Baseball – Jack Stamp
October – Eric Whitacre
Sinatra in Concert – arr. Jerry Nowak
On the Mall – Edwin Franco Goldman
West Side Story – Leonard Bernstein
Farandole – Georges Bizet

May 2009:

Royal Procession -Ron Arnon
Eternal Vigilance “The Long Brave Line” – Robert Jager
With Quite Courage – Larry Daehn
Kentucky Sunrise – Karl King/ arr. Robert E. Foster
As the Stars Forever – Warner Hutchison/
A Tribute to Artie Shaw – Arr. James Christensen

with Guest Clarinet Soloist, Dr. Nicholas J. Velenziano

Americans We – Henry Filmore

March 2009:
(The Forest Hills Adult Community Band portion of the Bands on the Grand Festival)

Moorside March – From a Moorside Suite- Gustav Holst, Arr. By Gordon Jack
Ontario Pictures – Howard Cable

  • Downbound From Thunder Bay
  • Point Pelee
  • Old Fort Henry

Poem – Scott Boerma
Folk Song Suite – R. Vaughn Williams

  • March – Seventeen Come Sunday
  • My Bonny Boy
  • Folk Songs From Somerset

Sedona – Steven Reineke

December 2008:

Konigsmarsch – Richard Strauss, Arr. By Roger Barrett
Overture to Christmas Winds – Douglas E. Wagner (ASCAP)
Fantasia in G; “Freude Schoner Gotterfunken” – Timothy Mahr
Amazing Grace – Fran Tichelli
Die Meistersinger – Richard Wagner, scored by Eric Osterling
A Festive Christmas: A Medley of Traditional Christmas Carols – Kenny Bierschenk
Sleigh Ride – Leroy Anderson

October 2008:

The Chimes of Liberty – Edwin Franko Godman, arr. By Loras J. Schissel
A Copland Tribute – Aaron Copland, adapted by Clare Grundman
The Cowboys – John Williams, arr. By Jim Curnow
Manhattan Beach – John Philip Sousa, re-scored by Bill Holcombe
American Salute – Morton Gould
Stephen Foster Songbook – Stephen Bulla
Ellington (A Tribute to the Duke) – Duke Ellington

May 2008:

American Overture for Band – Joseph Wilcox Jenkins
Norma (Overture) – Vincenzo Bellini Arr. By Leonard Falcone
Chorale and Alleluia – Howard Hanson
Shepherd’s Hey: English Morris Dance – Percy Grainger
First Suite For Band

  • I. March
  • III. Rag
  • IV.Gallop

Sundance – Frank Ticheli
Seventy Six Trombones – Meredith Wilson, arr. By Leroy Anderson

March 2008:

Children’s March “Over the Hills and Far Away” – Percy Grainger
Hopak Raskolnik (A Dance For the Old Believers) – David R. Holsinger

Special Guests: The D’Jangotones

Variations on a Korean Folk Song – John Barnes Chance
Summer Dances – Brian Balmages

December 2007:

Let Us Rejoice – Bill Locklear
Poem – Scott Boerma
Shalom – Phillip Sparks
Be Thou My Vision – David R. Gillingham
Canadian Brass Noel – adapted by Christopher Dedrick
Pat-a-Pan – arr. Robert Longfeld
Christmas Festival – Leroy Anderson

October 2007:

As we build this website, we will be adding to this page our programs from the past, along with other tidbits about our concerts.

Thanks for your patience.