The Plymouth-Canton Educational Park library goes a long way back. These recordings were originally taken on reel-to-reel tape and transferred to CD. From CD, they were converted to MP3 and then to YouTube (to save on Web hosting space). In the process, some parts of the recordings were lost. Some of the documentation is a little sketchy as well. Where available, the notes that accompanied the MP3s were added. In some cases, the notes include titles, but they titles don't necessarily align with the track numbers.
Are you familiar with these pieces? Can you match the title with the performance or give any background about the recordings? Let us know!
March 7th, 1970 - District Band Festival
March 7th, 1970
District Band Festival
Plymouth HS Symphony Band
James Griffity, Cond
Recorded at Gross Pointe North H.S. Auditorium
Plymouth H.S. Symphony Band, James R. Griffith Conductor
- Announcer
- Departure ONE by Higgins
- Required Number, 2nd Suite by Jager
- Selected No. Manzoni Requiem (Excerpts) by Giuseppe Verdi
For Music Enthusiests
Giuseppe Verdi wrote a mass in memory of his close friend Allesandro Manzoni. Emil Mollenhauer has arranged five sections from that mass into one of the most powerful works for concert band ever scored. This emotional rollercoaster takes the listener from the depths of aural gloom to some of the most brilliant of tutti passages. An immense work of gigantic proportion!
Directors Plug for VarietyIS
1st Suite In Eb -- Holts
Prelude and Fugue in G Minor
Three Songs for Christmas
Worlds Fair March
March 7th, 1970 - District Band Festival (continued)
Plymouth H.S. Band, James Griffith Conductor
- Announcer in track 5
- Watergate - by Pierson
- Required number, 2nd suite by Jager
- Select Number, Prelude and Dance by Crestin
Introduction
Departure ONE-March
2nd Suite by Jager
Manzoni Requiem - Excerpts - by Giuseppe Verdi
Introduction
Watergate - Pierson
2nd Suite by Jager
Prelude and Dance - Crestin
Track No9
TrackNo10
April 25, 1970 - State Festival
- Watergate march
- 2nd Suite-Jaeger
- Prelude and Dance - Creston
Moderator Introduction
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
Track 5
May Festival
All we have regarding these recordings is the name "May Festival"
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
Broadway Medley
With Choir
