The band has two concert seasons: an Indoor season and an Outdoor season.
The 33rd Season
2010 - 2011 Indoor Series
Washtenaw Community CollegeMorris Lawrence Building
Towsley Auditorium
Beginning with the 33rd season, players from the Ypsilanti Community Band and from Washtenaw Community College will perform together as the "Washtenaw Community Concert Band." The resulting band has two concert seasons: an indoor season and an outdoor season.
Thursday, October 21, 2010.
7:30 p.m., Free.
Towsley Auditorium, Washtenaw Community College
Special features of the program will include bassoon soloist Christian Green, a UM student, who will perform the "Hungarian Rondo" for bassoon by von Weber. Renowned area musician William R. Hayes, long-time orchestra/string teacher in the Ypsilanti schools, will conduct his own composition "Fanfare and March." Other features will include the Shostakovich "Festive Overture," the finale to "Pictures at an Exhibition," the brass choir fanfare "Stadt Wien," great show music from "Jersey Boys," and, of course, a Sousa march.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
7:30 p.m., Free
Pease Auditorium, Eastern Michigan University
Annual joint concert with the Ypsilanti Community Choir. Following the Choir's portion of the program, the Band will perform the Widor "Toccata," for organ and band, with Dr. James Wagner at the Pease organ console. Among other festive holiday pieces, the Band will perform Anderson's "Christmas Festival." The program will close with the two groups combined, conducted by YCC conductor Ariel Toews-Ricotta, concluding with the "Hallelujah" chorus.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
7:30 p.m., Free
Towsley Auditorium, Washtenaw Community College
With a theme of "Women in Music," the program will feature music by women composers, such as Julie Giroux' "Italian Rhapsody," a woman guest conductor (Dr. Amy Knopps, Associate Conductor of Bands at Eastern Michigan University), a nationally prominent woman soloist (Nan Raphael, from Washington D.C., on piccolo), and an ensemble consisting solely of the women musicians in the Washtenaw Community Concert Band.
Saturday, February 26, 2011 (if invited)
Red Cedar Festival of Community Bands, Free
Okemos High School, Okemos.
Selections to be announced.
mid-March 2011
Date and time TBA, Free
Sixth Annual Ensemble Concert.
Morris Lawrence Building, Washtenaw Community College.
A great afternoon of music from ensembles of all sorts--from classics to jazz.
Thursday, April 28, 2011. Grand Finale!
7:30 p.m., Free.
Towsley Auditorium, Washtenaw Community College
This concert will conclude Jerry Robbins' 13 years of service as conductor of the Ypsilanti Community Band and, through its partnerships with area higher education institutions, the Barnhill Band (EMU) and the Washtenaw Community Concert Band (WCC). The program will consist of his favorites from among performances of the 13 seasons--such pieces as "Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral," "Les Miserables," "Lustpeil" overture, "Poet and Peasant Overture," Sousa's "Free Lance" march, and others.
Friday, May 13, 2011 or Saturday, May 14, 2011 (if invited)
Downtown Muskegon. Free.
"Town Band" performance in connection with the national Convention of the Association of Concert Bands.