I played trumpet in the Lafayette High School Symphonic Band. What I have of the band on record is three discs — two concerts from my school years, and the night we played the Midwest Clinic in Chicago. All of it streams below.
Disc 3 — The Midwest Clinic · Chicago
Midwest Clinic — December 22, 1988
The Midwest Clinic was the biggest stage a high school band could stand on, and in December 1988 the band stood on it. Eleven pieces, played under our director, Patrick W. Finkbeiner, with guest conductors Ray C. Cramer and Jack W. White. The disc came back to me years later with no titles on it — just Track 1 through Track 12. The names below were rebuilt from the printed program and my own ear, nearly forty years on. The Bach plays in two parts because that is how the disc cut it.
1. La Forza del Destino— Giuseppe Verdi· 7:55
2. Chorale and Fugue in F Major (Part 1)— Johann Sebastian Bach· 2:42
3. Chorale and Fugue in F Major (Part 2)— Johann Sebastian Bach· 4:32
4. Haunted Castles— David Uber· 4:11
5. Air for Band— Frank Erickson· 3:40
6. American Salute— Morton Gould· 4:27
7. Korean Festival— Quincy Hilliard· 3:40
8. Mother Machree— Ernest Ball· 4:06
9. Foshay Tower Washington Memorial— John Philip Sousa· 3:25
10. An Irish Celebration— Thomas Knox· 5:03
11. March Brittania— Ed Huckeby· 2:28
12. Rituale— Elliot Del Borgo· 9:23
Disc 1 — LHS Symphonic Band
Disc 1
The band's book from those years, in the order it sits on the disc — Verdi and Gould up front, Del Borgo's Rituale in three movements, and Alfred Reed's Armenian Dances to close.
1. La Forza del Destino— Giuseppe Verdi· 7:57
2. American Salute— Morton Gould· 4:16
3. Rituale, Movement 1— Elliot Del Borgo· 2:22
4. Rituale, Movement 2— Elliot Del Borgo· 2:40
5. Rituale, Movement 3— Elliot Del Borgo· 3:54
6. Air for Band— Frank Erickson· 3:24
7. Mother Machree— Ernest Ball· 3:32
8. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night— Elliot Del Borgo· 10:24
9. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor— Johann Sebastian Bach· 9:22
10. Sketches on a Tudor Psalm— Fisher Tull· 11:41
11. Armenian Dances, Movement 1— Alfred Reed· 2:17
12. Armenian Dances, Movement 2— Alfred Reed· 1:59
13. Armenian Dances, Movement 3— Alfred Reed· 3:08
14. Armenian Dances, Movement 4— Alfred Reed· 1:45
15. Armenian Dances, Movement 5— Alfred Reed· 3:16
Disc 2 — LHS Symphonic Band
Disc 2
Gordon Jacob's William Byrd movements open it; the back half runs from Alfred Reed's Russian Christmas Music through Respighi's Pines of Rome.
1. William Byrd 3rd— Gordon Jacob· 1:53
2. William Byrd 4th— Gordon Jacob· 4:00
3. William Byrd 5th— Gordon Jacob· 3:16
4. Incantation and Dance— John Barnes Chance· 7:16
5. Shepherd's Hey— Percy Grainger· 2:15
6. Russian Christmas Music— Alfred Reed· 12:29
7. Mother Machree— Ernest Ball· 3:51
8. An Irish Celebration— Thomas Knox· 4:51
9. Aegean Festival Overture— Andreas Makris· 10:01
10. Pines of Rome, Movement 1— Ottorino Respighi· 2:47
11. Pines of Rome, Movement 2— Ottorino Respighi· 6:15
12. Pines of Rome, Movement 3— Ottorino Respighi· 5:53
13. Pines of Rome, Movement 4— Ottorino Respighi· 5:31
How these recordings reached this page: the original discs are mine, somewhere — an attic here or there, and I have not touched one in years. These copies came from Robert Brown, who played trumpet beside me in that band, worked the equipment crew, and shared the captain's job with me. I asked him for them a few years back, and he gave them freely. Later I lost track of them and asked him again, but by then he had lost track of his own. I found them once more in a Dropbox I had not opened since my field days, while I was building FleetSheet. So the thanks go to Robert — he held onto them when I didn't, and he shared them when I asked. Composers are credited on every piece. If I have a title wrong, the mistake is mine, not the band's.