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Charlotte Concert Band
WHO WE ARE |
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ENGINEERS & ARCHITECTS, MUSIC TEACHERS & MOMS |
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and more, make up the
Charlotte Concert Band. Some
of us are retirees, some are busy professionals, some have families to
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Young or . . . mature, our common bond is our love of making music, a love which began during our school years in band and continued through college, including Indiana University, East Carolina University, Marshall University, Western Carolina University, University of Tennessee, Florida State University, Duke University, Winthrop University and many others.
Some of us like the concert band classics best, like the Holst Suites or the works of Clifton Williams, Alfred Reed or Percy Grainger. Others may prefer a rousing Sousa or Fillmore march or a Broadway medley, but everyone seems to enjoy a great transcription of an orchestral "warhorse" like Poet and Peasant, Overture to Rienzi or Festive Overture.
CCB members are active performers throughout the Charlotte area. Many of us play in church orchestras, jazz bands, musical theatre orchestras, chamber ensembles, community orchestras and other community bands.
Euphonium player and Queens professor John Repede at his suburban Chicago home in 1965
CCB members make friends that will last a lifetime. Some of our members have played together in the band for thirty years. Some have just moved to Charlotte in the past two or three years. When they came to their first rehearsal, they quickly discovered a warm place to make new acquaintances, learn about Charlotte, find other ensembles to play in or even find someone from their hometown or state. The Charlotte Concert Band proves the theory of "six degrees of separation."
Students at Queens University of Charlotte may participate in the
CCB
for aca
For more information about Queens University of Charlotte, visit their web site.
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CCB CONDUCTOR |
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Dr. Donald Morris has more than 30 years of experience conducting public school and university bands in Tennessee, Illinois, South Carolina, Florida, Kentucky and North Carolina including Northwestern University, University of Illinois Chicago, Florida State University, Charleston Southern University, Western Carolina University and Morehead State University. Dr. Morris made his conducting debut while still an undergraduate leading the Dogwood Arts Festival Chamber Orchestra in Copland's Appalachian Spring.
He is currently a band director in the Charlotte public schools and has led the Charlotte Concert Band since 1999. His musical interests range from concert band classics to jazz and Broadway standards. He also enjoys being the webmaster of the CCB website.
Dr. Morris holds a B.S. in Music Education from the University of Tennessee, a Master's in Conducting from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Music Education from Florida State. While at Florida State, Dr. Morris was awarded a Dissertation Fellowship for his research on the life and works of composer Vincent Persichetti. In addition to his dissertation, "The Life and Works of Vincent Persichetti, with Emphasis on the Works for Band," Dr. Morris has been a contributor to the "Teaching Music Through Performance in Band" series and wrote the liner notes for the University of North Texas CD "Composer's Collection: Vincent Persichetti." He has studied conducting with W J Julian, Donald Neuen, John Paynter and James Croft. |
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care of. Some are starting careers, some are ending careers,
some are starting families!
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credit. There
are music majors as well as talented non-majors who enroll in
the
CCB each semester. As a smaller
university, Queens offers an intimate learning environment as well as
close and meaningful student-teacher interaction.
Through Queens' sponsorship, the
Charlotte Concert Band gives
students
the opportunity to perform in a large ensemble with full
instrumentation and play challenging repertoire. Many of our Queens students in the
CCB come
from high schools with outstanding band programs.