SOUTH JERSEY AREA
WIND ENSEMBLE
Southern New Jersey's Finest Wind Band and
Recipient of the 2006 J.P. Sousa Foundation's Sudler Silver Scroll Award
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2010 Ocean City Home Bank Foundation Grant for $2,500 is given to SJAWE Development Committee member, Ambrose O'Donnell, Jr. by Foundation President Jean Jacobson with OCHB BOD present.
TESTIMONIALS
It was a wonderful, wonderful concert!!! My friend Joanne and I were truly blessed by the beautiful music. We thoroughly enjoyed every moment. It was over all too soon. - Ruth Ann Schmidt, Barnegat
"A WONDERFUL PART OF SOUTH JERSEY! THE TALENT IS APPRECIATED AND ENJOYED." - NANCY ALBRECHT
"THERE IS NOT A NEED TO GO TO PHILADELPHIA/NEW YORK TO LISTEN TO INCREDIBLE MUSIC! - MATT & NIVA PRINTY"
"THIS CONCERT IS FABULOUS" - MRS. SHARON PERNA
"WE WERE SURPRISED BY THE SIZE OF THE BAND. THE PROGRAM WAS WELL DESIGNED & WE ENJOYED THE CONCERT. " - RICHARD & MARIE DiMEO
"IT WAS WONDERFUL. I WILL ATTEND AGAIN." - GERRY STONE
"GREAT AS USUAL." - LINDA KEYSER
"VERY ENJOYABLE CONCERTS. PROGRAMS ALWAYS INTERESTING." - RALPH SWIFT
WATCH HERE FOR WEATHER RELATED REHEARSAL CANCELATIONS
If you ever played in a band READ THIS NOW!
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JULY INTO AUGUST 2011
Go to Prague, Budapest & Eisenstadt with SJAWE CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS & Application
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ATTENTION BAND COMPOSERS!
Enter our 2010 Composition Contest and
CLICK HERE FOR PDF DOWNLOADABLE INFORMATION AND APPLICATION:
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NEXT CONCERT
Side-by-Side Concert
With 50 of South Jersey's Finest High School and College Students Added for Several Selections
Keith Brion to Conduct SJAWE
April 19, 2010
The Richard Stockton College of NJ at 7:30 P.M.
Admission $10 - Seating will be reserved
Click Here to Get tickets online at the Stockton Box Office
(This event often sells-out so buy your tickets early)
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Keith Brion to Conduct SJAWE on April 19, 2010
KEITH BRION
Keith Brion is a free lance conductor of bands and orchestras and also currently leads his own New Sousa Band, an all-star professional band assembled from all over the United States. He has appeared as a guest conductor nationally and internationally with many professional bands as well as with near all of America’s major and regional symphony orchestras. Mr. Brion has guest conducted many university bands throughout the country in special residencies and has recorded the music of Alan Hovhaness with the Ohio State Band and the music of Percy Grainger with the Michigan State Band.
In the 1970's he conducted the Yale Band in New Haven, at Carnegie Hall, and took that band on numerous national and international tours including an all-Ives concert at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. In the 1990’s he served as interim band director at San Jose State. During the 80's and 90's he has led most of Americas orchestras as a pops conductor with an emphasis on the music of John Philip Sousa, Percy Grainger and Victor Herbert. These include the Boston Pops, Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony, etc. He has appeared numerous times with the Goldman Band in New York the Stockholm Symphonic Wind Orchestra, the Texas Wind Symphony, the Allentown Band and many other professional and military bands throughout the country, including the Army Field Band and West Point Bands.
Mr. Brion's career includes extensive public school teaching in New Jersey, where he also founded the North Jersey Wind Symphony. He is a former member of the New Jersey Symphony and taught at William Paterson and Montclair State Universities.
Keith Brion has published numerous editions of the music of Percy Grainger, Charles Ives, and DW Reeve as well as over thirty new editions of the music of John Philip Sousa. Mr. Brion records for Delos and Naxos records, and currently has over twenty commercial band and orchestral recordings including the music of Grainger, Hovhaness, Victor Herbert and Sousa. In the summer of 1999, he began a new series of 16 CD’s which will encompass the complete Sousa band music for the Naxos “American Classic Series” with London's Royal Artillery Band and the Royal Norwegian Naval Band. Ten have been completed to date. He has recently completed recording the seven wind symphonies of Alan Hovhaness for Naxos with the wind orchestras of the Royal Academy in Glasgow and Trinity College in London.
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2010 Season Sponsors: The Richard Stockton College of NJ PAC Ocean City Home Bank Foundation - $2,500 level Atlantic County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs (Matching Grant at $4,000 level) Raymond Ciccone - Ciccone, Gotthold & Koseff, Certified Public Accountants, Ship Bottom, NJ AtlantiCare - 2010 Side by Side Brigantine Recreation Department - Brigantine Concert Ocean City Home Bank - Linwood Park Concert Ocean County STAC Concert- August Surflight Theater Concert - November Podium Sponsorship ($1,000 or more level): Raymond and Gina Ciccone - Keith W. Hodgson/Ron Poorman Conductor and Associate Conductor Chair Sponsorships ($250 or more level): Eastern Marketing Corporation - Gary Press, Sax & Oboe Albert & Margaret Gutierrez - Roberta Beckler, Flute Stella Hordes - Karen M. Poorman, Clarinet Grace Florintino - Gabriella Johnson, Percussion Dr. & Mrs. Walter DePalma - Ron Poorman, Clarinet The Prudential Foundation - Dawn Donchey, Clarinet James Palmer-Patricia Lake, Oboe Events by Val - Valerie Brozosky, Trombone Jersey Shore Pharmacy - Beth Roach, Flute Rose Dinerman - Marilyn Kessler, Percussion Herman & Dorothy Saatkamp - Carolyn Gutierrez, Bassoon (4) Herman & Dorothy Saatkamp - David Lechner, Bass Clarinet (4) Herman & Dorothy Saatkamp - Robert Helsabeck, French Horn (4) Justin Bean, Acupuncture Office - Jennifer Hodgson, Clarinet EuroColour Salon and Spa - Anne Harlan, Trumpet (4) Turris Group - Louis Feldman, Baritone Saxophone Carl Schaedel, Viking Distributors - Gary F. Sita, Clarinet Co-Sponsorship (Under $250): The Choir of the Presbyterian Church of Pleasantville / Richard Williams - Robert Helsabeck *********************************************************** Platinium Level ($1000 and above): Raymond and Gina Ciccone Gold Level ($500 to $999): Silver Level ($300 to $499): Mrs. James Palmer Bronze Level ($100 to $299): Rhoda & Louis Rabinowitz Copper Level ($50 to $99): Jeanne & Gary Dewitt Dom & Fran Cicali James R. & Marguerite A. Krouse Ms. Judith Hall Josephine & Michael Giacchino Patron Level ($10 to $49): Gloria Barone Mary McKeown Eileen Essinger Francis Marie Florio Lynn White Sarah & Carol Elliott Alfred & Ellen Adkins Linda Keyser Jean & James Griffin Eleauer Rayniverlt Anthony Barile Syreela Primas Dale Lonkart Jim & Pat Devlin Dr. Diego M. Fiorentino Ray & June Batz Jodi Dix James M. & Claire K. Moyer Dorothy H. Johnston-Banzy James & Barbara Tracey Mrs. Virginia Olsson Mrs. June L. Grace Richard & Bonnie Tyson
YOUR NAME HERE! CONTACT KAREN POORMAN AT 609 402-5575 OR KMPOORMAN@AOL.COM TO SPONSOR A CHAIR.
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Keith W. Hodgson, Conductor & Musical Director
BOD President Karen M. Poorman
Karen and Ron Poorman guest Clarinetists with the Naples, Florida Concert Band during the month of January 2010 Pictured L to R: Angela Stathatos, Ron Poorman, Harris Lanzel, Director, Karen Poorman, Karen Marcotte |
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