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School of Music khodgson@uarts.edu
Music Education Office: Merriam Theater
Philadelphia, PA Floor 4 - Music Ed. Office


Mr. Keith W. Hodgson, Director of Music Education

IV. Concert Program Performance Highlights / Conducting CV:

This is a sample of notable programs conducted over the past two years. Additional holiday and summer programs not listed.

Feb. 2018 Westchester Symphonic Winds

Icarus and Daedalus Fantasy…………………… Keith Gates

South Jersey Area Wind Ensemble:

Dec. 2017 Winter Dances Concert (w/ Combined Community Choir)
Bolero…………………………………………… Maurice Ravel, arr. Bocook
A Festival Prelude............................................ Alfred Reed
Winter Dances................................................. Brian Balmages
Dreidel Dance………………………………………….. Robert Thurston
A Holiday Rhapsody......................................... Larry MacTaggart
Festival Fanfare for Christmas............................ John Wasson
A Festive Holiday Greeting................................ Darren W. Jenkins
A Christmas Festival.......................................... Leroy Anderson
The Christmas Song……………………………… Mel Torme & Robert Wells/arr. Snyder & Higgins
Festive Christmas Celebration………………….. arr. Audrey Snyder
I Hear America Singing..................................... Andre Thomas
On With the Snow!…………………………….. arr. Douglas E. Wagner

Apr. 2017 “Flashback!” Side by Side (Guest Conductor and 50+ Combined Students)
Gavorkna Fanfare……………………………… Jack Stamp
Symphonic Dance #3:………………………… Clifton Williams
20th Anniversary Concertante…………………………………… Emile Paladilhe
Oboe Soloist, Joseph DeLuccio, United States Marine Band, Washington DC
Concert Never Forgotton (In Memoriam Slide Show) .. Stephen Melillo
Industrial Loops……………………………….. Brian Balmages
20th Anniversary Commission
Incantation & Dance………………………….. John Barnes Chance
Sun Dance…………………………………….. Frank Ticheli
Foundry………………………………………… John Mackey
Twelve Gallon Hat ……….…………………… Julie Giroux
Beguine for Band……………………………… Glenn Osser
Stars & Stripes Forever………………………… John Philip Sousa

Mar. 2017 Kennedy Center Performance at the “Sousa Band Festival”

Seapower Fanfare……………………..……… Jerry Brubaker
Riften Wed……………………………………. Julie Giroux
The Atlantic City Pageant March…………….. John Philip Sousa
A Movement for Rosa………………………… Mark Camphouse
The Wouverine………………………………… John Philip Sousa

Apr. 2016 SJAWE Side by Side (Guest Conductor and 50+ Combined Students)
Flight…………………………………………… Claude T. Smith
Firefly…………………………………………… Ryan George
Aerial Fantasy………………………………….. Michael Mogensen
March from Superman………………….……… John Williams
Where Never Lark or Eagle Flew……………… James Curnow
Resplendent Glory……………………………… Rossano Galante
12 Seconds To The Moon……………………… Robert W. Smith
Those Magnificent Airmen & Their Flying Machines Larry MacTaggart

Dec. 2016 Alaska Region V Honor Band

English Folk Song Suite……………………….. Ralph Vaughan Williams
October………………………………………… Eric Whitacre
Americans We…………………………………. Henry Fillmore
Joy of Life……………………………………….. Brian Balmages