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Solano Winds History n December 9, 1995, a new community band took the stage in the auditorium at Will C. Wood High School in Vacaville. Comprised of 55 volunteer musicians under the direction of Robert O. Briggs, Solano Winds performed a program of eight classic selections from the Wind Band repertoire before a very receptive audience. Briggs, the just-retired Director Emeritus of the University of California Band in Berkeley, formed the ensemble along with Bill Doherty, the first President of the organization. It was apparent to everyone in the room that this new performing group was here to stay. Now in our 20th Season, Solano Winds continues to provide band members and audiences an opportunity to enjoy music making. Over the years, many things have changed: we’ve moved rehearsal spaces from Fairfield High School, to Armijo High School, to Solano Community College, to our current location at Vanden High School. Rather than using all borrowed music as we did in 1995, we now maintain our own extensive music library. And to support our growth, our donor base has grown significantly since 1995, when we started with two important donors – Gordon’s Music & Sound and the Fairfield High School Scarlet Brigade Band Boosters. During this time, though, many more things have stayed the same. Our commitment to perform high quality Wind Band literature well and to have fun while doing it has been a consistent staple of our organization. While some members have come and gone over the years, we continue to maintain a healthy blend of experienced and young musicians. Upon the passing of Bob Briggs in 2008, Bill Doherty was named as Music Director, continuing the traditions started when the band formed in 1995. Since that premiere performance at Will C. Wood High School, we’ve performed at the Fairfield Community Center, the Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre, the Lesher Center for the Arts, and the Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center. In our second season, we performed as a part of the Carmichael Park Community Band Festival, and have performed in that Festival every year since that appearance. Also in that second season, we embarked on what has become a tremendous relationship with the residents at Paradise Valley Estates, where we now perform four times each season. In 2013, we were honored with an invitation to perform at the Association of Concert Bands’ National Convention. Through all of this, our performance home has been the intimate space on Texas Street, formerly the Fairfield Center for Creative Arts, now the Downtown Theatre, of which Solano Winds is a resident company. Like any successful performing organization, we can credit our longevity to three factors: the care that our musicians place on mastering their musical performance, the appreciation consistently shown by our audiences, and the relationships that we’ve been able to build with each other over these first twenty seasons.

Bill Doherty – Music Director n 1994, as Bob Briggs was beginning his last year before retirement as Director of the University of California Band, Bill Doherty suggested to him that they start a community band in Fairfield. A year later, that vision became a reality as Bob founded Solano Winds. Bill served as the first President of the group and helped to formalize the behind-the-scenes workings of the band while playing principal trumpet. Upon the passing

of Robert O. Briggs in September 2008, Bill was named Music Director of Solano Winds. Bill played in the Cal Band under Bob’s leadership while earning his Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of California at Berkeley. He taught band for eleven years, including a three-year stay at Vanden High School, before adding mathematics to his teaching credential. In addition to his high school bands, Bill conducted the Berkeley Symphonic Band from 1985 to 1989. Currently, he teaches mathematics and assists teachers in their use of instructional technology at Campolindo High School in Moraga. He lives in Fairfield with his wife, Jennifer, who teaches music in Fairfield and plays percussion in Solano Winds. Bill and Jennifer are very proud of their three talented children: Melissa, a University of Oregon graduate, now teaching dance in Redding, CA; Kevin, a 2014 graduate of the Ray Bolger Musical Theatre Program at UCLA, currently working as a actor in Southern California; and Emily, a Solano Winds alumnus who is now pursuing a degree in Music Education at Michigan State University.

Welcome olano Winds proudly opens its 20th Season with “Home & Abroad”, a salute to American music along with a blend of styles from around the world. Included in tonight’s performance is music both new and old – we’ve programmed “Beguine for Band” by Glenn Osser as a return selection from our very first performance in December 1995, as well as Julie Giroux’s “Carnaval”, which received its world premiere performance in Texas in September 2013. Throughout this 20th season, Solano Winds will be celebrating the talents of our volunteer musicians. One such member is Otto Vasak, a longtime member of our clarinet section. We’ve enjoyed such pleasures as celebrating the 75th Wedding Anniversary of Otto and his bride Elly over the years, and because Otto perfectly exemplifies the spirit of our community band, we are dedicating this celebratory 20th season to him. Cheers, Otto!

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Still to come in our 20th Season:

December 12, 2014

“Now & Then”Featuring original works by

Solano Winds members along with music

from Bach to Mancini – plus a holiday celebration!

March 6, 2015

“Truth or Fiction”With music adapted from classic literature

to Broadway to Hollywood and more.

May 15, 2015

“War & Peace”The broadest ranges of the musical emotional spectrum,

from music inspired by the Civil War, the Russian Revolution and World War II to sounds of

beauty, joy and peace.

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Carnaval! – sponsored by Gordon’s Music & SoundThe Great Locomotive Chase – sponsored by John & Susan Coleman

PROGRAM

La Forza del Destino - Overture……………………..………………Giuseppe VerdiTranscribed by R. Mark Rogers

Themes from “Green Bushes” ……………….….….. Percy Aldridge Grainger

Setting by Larry D. Daehn

Carnaval …………………………….…………………………………...…………Julie Giroux

Beguine for Band ……………………………….…………….……………… Glenn Osser

A Nation’s Strength (And Lift Them to the Sky) ….……… Robert W. Smith

INTERMISSION

The Thunderer …………..……………………..………….…….…… John Philip SousaArranged by Keith Brion and Loras Schissel

Rhapsody on a French Hymn ……………………………………….. David Gorham

Conductor: Jennifer Doherty

Pie in the Face Polka ……..…………………………………………….. Henry Mancini Arranged by Johnnie Vinson

Clarinet Feature

Sweet Land of Liberty ………………………………Arranged by James Sochinski

The Great Locomotive Chase …..………………………….…….. Robert W. Smith

Armed Forces Salute …………….………………………………. Edmund L. Gruber, Captain Francis Saltus van Boskerck,

Jacques Offenbach, Robert Crawford, Captain Alfred H. Miles, Charles A. Zimmerman

Arranged by Bob Lowden

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PLa Forza del Destino

Guiseppe Verdi’s opera La Forza del Destino (The Force of Destiny) opened in November 1862, but was only moderately successful. Verdi revised the opera in 1868, and it is from this revision that the work is known today. The overture does not in any way follow the rather convoluted events of the opera, but rather is a symphonic treatment of music heard within the opera which masterfully sets the stage for tragic events which are to follow. After six unison blasts from the brasses, the overture opens with a musical idea symbolizing the relentless force that carries forward the tragic events of the opera: the four note “fate” motive, which appears in the opera whenever destiny brings the three main characters together. After six more unison blasts, the overture quotes an Act IV duet depicting Don Alvaro begging the pity of Don Carlo, with the “fate” motive appearing in the accompaniment. Donna Leonora’s prayer as she enters the church for sanctuary is then heard in the upper voices with the “fate” motive underneath. Her prayer of thanksgiving upon being granted sanctuary is heard as a clarinet solo with harp accompaniment. The brass chorale heard next is a symphonic transformation of the accompaniment to Father Guardiano’s prayer from the same scene. A final statement of the “fate” motive is accompanied with a delicate obligato in the upper woodwinds, and the entire piece is pulled together in a stirring finale.

Themes from “Green Bushes” Green Bushes (Passacaglia on an English Folksong) was written by Percy Aldridge Grainger in London and Denmark between November 16, 1905, and September 19, 1906. Sources for the compositions were: 1) a folksong collected by Cecil Sharp, from the singing of Mrs. Louie Hooper of Hambridge, Somerset and 2) the singing of Mr. Joseph Leaning at Brigg, Lincolnshire, collected by Grainger on August 7, 1906. Green Bushes (or Lost Lady Found or The Three Gipsies) was apparently a widely-known melody; Grainger accumulated ten different variations of it during his folksong collecting career, and used on of them as the final movement of his Lincolnshire Posy in 1937. Though the song is of English origin, it has also been found in Ireland and America. Ralph Vaughan Williams used it in the Intermezzo of his Folk Song Suite, as did George Butterworth in The Banks of Green Willow.

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P Green Bushes was first performed at the Philharmonic Concert at the Kurhaus an der Comphausbadstrasse, Auchen, Germany on May 10, 1912, with Grainger conducting. He re-scored it on January 16-28, 1921. Themes from “Green Bushes” is a setting of excerpts from Grainger’s 1921 score.

Carnaval! Carnaval! (2013) is a vivid depiction of the excitement and energy of a Latin street Carnaval. During the Carnival season, an annual festival held prior to Lent, cultures all over the world celebrate with parades and street parties that feature floats, dancers, vendors, and street performers. Giroux captures the activity and busyness of the Carnaval with a persistent rhythmic motor that travels through various timbres of the ensemble including many Latin percussion instruments. The “A” section of the piece serves as an introduction to some of the motives or main characters. Utilizing vibrant orchestration and styling, each motive evokes images of brightly colored dancers dressed in lavish costumes. As the parade continues, the listener hears the characters interact with one another and the excitement builds as the tonal center starts to wander. The “B” section becomes more homorhythmic and harmonious as if the crowd and the performers join together in singing. Attentions suddenly divert as the next group of dancers come through, interjecting quick flashes of color, forming the development section. The development leads into a contrasting “C” section that has a free and majestic texture, possibly illustrating the passing by of an enormous float. Familiar motives from the beginning return with slight variations followed by a brief coda. As the music accelerates, the rush of excitement and energy overloads the senses and brings the piece to a close. Carnaval was premiered by the University of North Texas Symphonic Band conducted by Dennis W. Fisher on September 24th, 2013.

Beguine for Band Abe Arthur “Glenn” Osser was a product of the music school at the University of Michigan. He was a staff conductor and arranger for the American Broadcasting Company from 1947 to 1968, and in 1955 became the music director of the Miss America Pageant. In one of his earliest and most popular works, Osser successfully organized the characteristic beguine rhythm for concert band. The beguine originated as a popular dance of the West Indies.

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PA Nation’s Strength (…And Lift Them to the Sky) Inspired by a short poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson, “A Nation’s Strength” celebrates the achievements of the brave and dedicated who have given selflessly during the first 100 years of powered flight. Commissioned by the United States Air Force Band of the West under the direction of Major Dean Zarmbinski, the piece was written to honor those who have “stood fast and suffered long” in man’s eternal quest to conquer the skies. The work was premiered in July of 2002 at the Texas Bandmasters Association Convention in San Antonio, Texas. A Nation’s Strength By Ralph Waldo Emerson Not gold, but only man can make A people great and strong; Men who, for truth and honor’s sake Stand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep, Who dare while others fly, They build a nation’s pillars deep And lift them to the sky.

The Thunderer Other than the fact that John Philip Sousa’s “thunderer” was undoubtedly a Mason, his identity may never be revealed. The Thunderer march was dedicated to Columbia Commandery No. 2, Knight Templar, of Washington, D.C., and it was composed on the occasion of the Twenty fourth Triennial Conclave of the Grand Encampment. The conclave was held in October, 1889, and was sponsored by Columbia Commandery No. 2. Sousa had been “knighted” in that organization three years earlier. The Thunderer was Mrs. John Philip Sousa’s favorite march. This was revealed by their daughter Helen, who also surmised that the “thunderer” might have been her father’s salute to the London Times, which was known as “the thunderer”. It has since been determined that Sousa probably had no association with the newspaper at that time, however. The “thunderer” might have been one of the men in charge of making arrangements for the 1889 conclave – in particular, Myron M. Parker, who worked tirelessly to make the event the spectacular success that it was. In the second section of the march, Sousa included an adaptation of an earlier trumpet and drum piece, Here’s Your Health, Sir! Which he had written for The Trumpet and The Drum (1886).

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PRhapsody on a French Hymn The basis of this concert work is the Picardy Hymn, better known by the 1906 setting by Ralph Vaughn Williams titled Let All Mortals Keep Silence. This historical melody is effectively woven throughout and presented in various instrumentations and styles.

Pie in the Face Polka The Great Race is a 1965 American slapstick comedy film starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood. It is noted for one scene that was promoted as “the greatest pie fight ever”. The pie fight scene in the royal bakery was filmed over five days. 4,000 pies were thrown, the most pies ever filmed in a pie fight. The scene lasts four minutes and twenty seconds and cost $200,000 to shoot; $18,000 of that was just for the pastry. Colorful cream pies with fillings such as raspberry, strawberry, blueberry and lemon were used. For continuity between days of shooting, the actors were photographed at the end of each day and then made up the following morning to have the same colorful appearance, the same smears of pie crust and filling. Director Blake Edwards told the cast that a pie fight by itself is not funny, so to make it funny they would build tension by having the hero, dressed all in white, fail to get hit with any pies. He said, “The audience will start yearning for him to get it”. Finally, the hero was to take a pie in the face at “just the right moment”. At the end of the shooting, when Edwards called “cut!”, he was barraged with several hundred pies that members of the cast had hidden, waiting for the moment. Henry Mancini spent six weeks composing the score for the film, and it was recorded involving some 80 musicians.

Sweet Land of Liberty James Sochinski has created a beautiful tribute with Sweet Land of Liberty. After an opening fanfare section, a soaring melody is punctuated with echoes of those fanfares. The melody is retreated on top of a rhythmic underpinning, and then, rising from the silence at the end of the melodic line comes a somber woodwind duet on the tune from “America” (My Country ‘Tis of Thee). That grows into a majestic rendition of the patriotic melody before the piece closes with an uptempo restatement of the opening fanfares and a spectacular finish.

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P rogram NotesThe Great Locomotive Chase

In the early years of the Civil War, Georgia was largely protected from military hostilities, leaving it free to ship arms and munitions, food, and supplies to Confederate troops on the battlefields to the northeast. It was the importance of the extensive rail system to the Confederates that prompted James Andrews, a Union spy from Kentucky, to attempt a daring effort to disrupt the 138-mile rail line connecting Atlanta and Chattanooga. Along with 19 Union soldiers dressed as civilians, Andrews arrived at Marietta April 12, 1862. Here, they boarded a northbound train pulled by the General, a wood-burning locomotive built in 1855. At Big Shanty, the train stopped so the passengers and crew could eat breakfast. Andrews used the break to uncouple the engine, wood tender, and three box cars from the passenger cars. They then sped off with the goal of damaging as many W&A tracks and rail bridges as possible. Hearing the General steam out, conductor William Fuller and two W&A employees ran out of the hotel dining room and pursued the stolen train by foot for several miles. Ultimately, Fuller would commandeer the locomotive Texas and, joined by Confederate soldiers, finally catch Andrews’ Raiders – a race Joel Chandler Harris later characterized as “the boldest adventure of the war.” This composition for concert band is based upon this fascinating event in American history. It was composed in the fall of 1999 for the Tapp Middle School Concert Band under the direction of Erin Cole. The work is dedicated to the Tapp Middle School Band in commemoration of their performance at the University of Georgia in December of the same year.

Armed Forces Salute On August 31, 1949, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson announced the creation of “Armed Forces Day” to be held on the third Saturday in May each year. President Harry S. Truman spearheaded the initiative to replace the separate Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force Days shortly after the Armed Forces were unified under a single department – the Department of Defense.Solano Winds would like to follow the example of President Truman and Secretary Johnson and thank our military members, both current and past, for their patriotic service in support of our country. As we perform Robert Lowden’s “Armed Forces Salute”, we invite current military personnel, veterans, and their families to stand when you hear your service’s song. We also extend an invitation to our audience members to salute these brave men and women, without whom we would not have the freedoms we enjoy today.

President Harry S. Truman

Delbert BUMP The Solano Winds Concert Band is fortunate to have Delbert Bump as a member. He is a professional musician, who plays the Euphonium with the band. Besides being an instrumentalist, he is a composer, music teacher, and band conductor. Delbert was born in Oroville, CA June 25th, 1945. At age seven he became very aware of his father’s piano playing ability. As Delbert states, he became fascinated and hooked on music. One day he found an old mellophone in the closet, took it to school and started playing it in the beginners’ band. A few months later Delbert’s mother started him on piano lessons – and he was on his way. He played bugle in the local Elk’s drum and bugle corps and later played the bass drum. As he continued his studies of the classics, he branched into Rock and Roll, Jazz and other forms of Pop music.Delbert played in a Rock band, and at age thirteen, he was leading his own band in high school where they played “after-game” dances. Later he worked in a pizza parlor playing Ragtime piano compositions. After high school, he attended Chico State College and played a lot of Jazz gigs at local teen centers and coffee houses. By this time Delbert learned to play the saxophone to go with his trumpet and piano performance career. Being a pre-dental major at school didn’t suit him, and he turned his full attention to being a professional musician. For the next five or six years he was on the road traveling with a show group throughout the western states and Hawaii. On returning to Sacramento, he was encouraged by other musicians to go back to college and basically get serious about his music. Delbert attended Consumnes River College and then Sacramento State where he was privileged to have Frank Wasco and Herb Harrison as his mentors. Delbert’s next educational experience was at San Francisco State, where he wanted to study with a first rate band composer. This man was Dr. Roger Nixon, who was Delbert’s major professor. It was at this time that Delbert decided that a teaching career was something he could do and still maintain his piano practice and music composition. He was hired as the music teacher at the Athenian School in Danville, CA, where he did everything musical including Jazz band, concert band, choir, history, and school musicals. Next he was hired as Professor of music theory at Solano College, where he taught for thirty-two years. He has composed over four thousand Jazz tunes plus works for orchestra, concert band, and Jazz ensembles. Currently, Delbert is Jazz Professor at University of California - Davis. On October 14, 2011, the Solano Winds concert band played the world premier of Delbert’s composition, “Sorrow in Sendai”, which was dedicated to the victims and survivors of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Sendai, Japan. The composition and performance was a great success. Solano Winds will be performing a world premiere of another of Delbert’s compositions at our December 2014 concert.”

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Garnet PIPER-LOPEZ A member of the Solano Winds clarinet section is Garnet Piper-Lopez. She was born into a farming family near Orland, CA. Other places that she lived in California include the Santa Cruz Mountains, Oakland, Woodland, Orland, Chico, Santa Barbara, Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo, Vallejo and finally Benicia. Garnet attended a three-room country school and then Orland High School. She received a BA degree from Chico State, majoring in Biology with a minor in Chemistry. She also received an MA degree in microbiology and worked as a microbiologist for ten years. Garnet’s family was very musical. Her grandfather played fiddle for barn dances in Colorado, and her mother also played. Garnet’s siblings played various band instruments as well as piano. She concentrated on the clarinet, starting in 5th grade through high school. Garnet also plays piano, flute, guitar and the bass clarinet. She has been a member of the Napa Community Band and has played with the Solano Community College Band. After Garnet moved to the Bay Area, she met her future husband in music classes at Solano Community College. She then switched careers to nursing – getting an AS degree in nursing from Solano Community College and an MS degree and PNP (pediatric nurse practitioner) from UCSF. She worked first for North Bay Medical Center and the Kaiser and is now retired as an “advice nurse”. After finishing her nursing courses, Garnet stopped playing the clarinet, but got back into action with Solano Winds after a 28-year hiatus. She and Ed have 5 children and 8 grandchildren. Garnet’s hobbies include travel, reading, walking the dog, Tai Chi, and keeping up with family, home and garden.

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Jennifer DOHERTY Jennifer Doherty has been making music since the age of four when she took her first piano lessons with her older brother. She studied piano, voice and score-study at the Tanglewood Institute with Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland, and earned her Bachelors of Music degree in Music Education from the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music. Jennifer has performed extensively on piano, organ and voice, and has collaborated with Bobby McFerrin, Bill Watrous, Carl Anderson and many local performing arts groups.

Jennifer is passionate about her role as a Music Educator. After three years teaching in California’s Central Valley, she joined the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District in 1987. She has taught general music, band and choir at seven schools in the District, and is currently the Music Teacher at Crystal Middle School in Suisun. Jennifer joined the percussion section for Solano Winds in 2000, and has served in numerous leadership roles for the organization over the years. She developed the very active School Liaison program for Solano Winds, coordinating the many outreach programs that Solano Winds maintains for local music students.

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S olano Winds Personnel

ConductorBill Doherty – Math Teacher/Technology Coordinator

PiccoloCathy Pierce – Second Grade Teacher

FluteMay Dulce – Business AnalystLauren Nucum – Chemical EngineerCathy Pierce – Second Grade TeacherEve Somjen - RetiredNichole Strickland – StudentLeslie Williams - Student

OboeBill Aron – MusicianRenee Deeter – MusicianSadie Wilson – Hair Stylist/Artist

English HornRenee Deeter - Musician

Eb ClarinetPam Nadeau – Band Director

ClarinetRosie Aron – Special Education Instructional Assistant/NanaJan Groth – Educator: ArtJennifer Holland – Pension AnalystAdrian Howley – SCC/Embry-Riddle Aero. Univ. StudentMichelle Johnson – Nurse Manager, Church Music DirectorPam Nadeau – Band DirectorGarnet Piper-Lopez – Retired Advice Nurse/MicrobiologistMaryrose Ricafort – Enlisted U.S. Navy, Drumline InstructorRochelle Sanchez – Fitness Instructor, Dance TeacherAndrew Smith – StudentInga Soule – BookkeeperMichelle Williams – Mom, Musician, Teacher

Alto ClarinetGarnet Piper-Lopez – Retired Advice Nurse/MicrobiologistAndrew Smith - Student

Bass ClarinetCliff Gordon – Music SalesRussell Grindle – Education SpecialistDeborah Johnson – Retired Parole Administrator

Contra-Bass ClarinetCaitlin Olmstead – Genetic Counselor

Alto SaxophoneMelvin Brito – Office Administrator/AuditorRafael Figueroa – Stay at Home DadMarcus Mills – English Teacher

Alto Saxophone (cont’d.)Samantha Johnson – Music TeacherNathan Tedrow – Office Wizard

Tenor SaxophoneJoe Rico – Staff Engineer

Baritone SaxophoneTeriLynn Caughie – 911 Dispatch Training CoordinatorTerry Sanchez – Retired Engineer (Toys, etc.)

TrumpetKenneth Flask – Technical Services ManagerJack Hanes – Music TeacherJoe Regner – Retired Electronic EngineerKatie Williams – Student (9th Grade)

HornLinn Benson – Lt. Col. USAF Retired; Business OwnerGlenn Nash – Psychiatric TechnicianGarth Olmstead – Student (Criminal Justice)Kim Rodriguez – Database Administrator

TromboneBob Evans – High School PrincipalJeff Johnstone – Economic Enrichment ScientistLarry Knowles – Retired Engineer; Big Band LeaderJoseph Lewis – Student; Future Software EngineerKim McCrea – Life Coach

EuphoniumDelbert Bump – Music Educator/ComposerRaymond Cabral – Programmer/Analyst

TubaDick Grokenberger – Retired U.S. Army, EducatorTim Mack – Retired Music Teacher, Administrator

PercussionJennifer Doherty – Music EducatorChristine Donovan - LawyerPhil Doty – Retired: Teacher, US MintWally Hunt – Band DirectorGeorgina Nash – Retired Registered NurseMaryrose Ricafort – Enlisted U.S. Navy, Drumline Instructor

TimpaniAntonio Escobedo – Music Teacher

Voice of the Solano WindsJohn Coleman – Volunteer, Western Railway Museum

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S olano Winds Donors

Concert Sponsors ($1500+)The Delong-Sweet Family FoundationThe Jelly Belly Candy CompanyParadise Valley Estates Residents CouncilPotrero Hills Landfill

Devotee ($100-$249) Jeff Baggett and Sally Livingston Murray Bass Col. Paul Bergerot Richard and Judith BlakemoreDorothee BrownChristine and Paul CloseJohn and Patty ColeMargaret CutshallCecelia DohertyMr. and Mrs. Richard FeasterMarilyn FigelJohn and Charlotte GearhartPat GloverMary GrindleWilliam and Constance GumJames Hathaway

Bob and Terry Keck Kenneth KinsmanKen KuraicaDorothy and Jack Lindeman Ed and Sue LippstreuThomas Martin, Jr.Walt and Esther McDanielBarbara McKeeDuncan MillerWally and Pat Mitchell Barbara Palmer Harry PriceJohn and Jean PetersStephen and Cathy PierceGarnet Piper-LopezMyrlee Potosnak

Enthusiast ($250+)Linn and Mona BensonVivian BowenRobert O. Briggs Scholarship Endownment FundArthur and Patricia ChildJohn and Susan ColemanBud DeLong Nilo and May DulceSpike and Betty FlertzheimCharles Goldman Thomas and Nancy Gunther Samantha Johnson Marcus MillsGloria NemsonJean RiehlBill and Elaine SmithBrandon and Kari Stinnett

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Devotees (cont’d.) Betty and Bill RawlinsonJoe and Connie RegnerMr. and Mrs. Fred SchafferFrederick Schleich Mr. and Mrs. G. Ray SchochIvan and Margie SellAlvina SheeleyMary Ann SteingassRob and Lacey Thayer

Ralph ThomasStephen P. TilleyChristine ToobyOtto and Elly VasakScott and Geri VasakDr. Wayne T. WalkerSid and Mary Gay WhitingLiz and Marty WildbergerRuth WolfeRalph W. and Daisy L. YoungCatherine Zimmerman

Admirer ($50-$99)Mr. and Mrs. Alfred AbramsMurray BassPatricia BenacquistaCol. Paul A. BergerotManuel and Ina Claire EscanoVirginia FisherNeil Gould Earl and Sue HandaJames HathawayKen and Layna KinsmanLynn Lippstreu

Major Mary E. LonglandJeanne MichaelJohn and Ann OusleyJeanne ReavisPaul and Elaine SchmidtAlvina SheeleySteve and Shelagh SpaffordBetty St. GeorgeJuliette ThomasElise WigtonRic and Barbara Wright

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New this year :ou can help us defray the costs of expanding our music library by

becoming a “Library Sponsor”. Contact us at library@solanowinds.org for assistance with selecting a musical selection for our library. We

will then purchase that music in your name, imprint a perpetual note of thanks to your generosity on each musician’s copy of the music,

and include our thanks to you in our concert programs in perpetuity whenever we perform that musical selection.

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Our generous donors are the key to our successful community band. Ticket revenues make up less than 30% of our overall budget, and your help is always needed! Your tax deductible donation will help us in expanding our music library, commissioning a concert piece to be composed for our band, purchasing and renting musical instruments and equipment, and sponsoring guest artists at our performances. Becoming an Admirer, Devotee or Enthusiast means you receive membership benefits. Help us spread the sound of fine concert band music throughout our community!

Admirers: $50-$99 Two concert vouchers Recognition of gift in concert program

Devotees: $100-$249 Four concert vouchers Recognition of gift in concert program

Enthusiasts: $250 and up Eight concert vouchers Recognition of gift in concert program

Concert Sponsor: $1,500 Corporations or individuals may sponsor a concert; names will be prominently displayed in advertise ments and concert programs. A commemorative plaque is included.

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