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News From The Road
by John Tyler
September 2012
September introduced three new members of the Glenn Miller Orchestrato our fans. Jonathan McQuade on trumpet from Salem, Oregon via Northern Illinois University, James Navan on piano of Port Charlotte, FL who holds a BA in Music Performance/Jazz Studies from the University of Central Florida and Gabe Carson in the saxophone section on second tenor from Winter Park, FL, a graduate of the University of Miami with a BA Music performance.
It has been a busy month taking the GMO from Washington DC to Ontario, Canada to Colorado and Wyoming. Coming off an August work break the GMO resumed touring with two nights of dining and dancing at The Carlyle Club in Alexandria, VA on September 6th and 7th. The Carlyle Club has become a regular stop for the GMO. On the 8th there was a private dinner dance at the Doylestown Country Club. The 10th brought the GMO to Resorts in Atlantic City. September 11th, 12th, and 13th were full house performances at Penn's Peak in Jim Thorpe, PA another regular stop for the Glenn Miller Orchestra.
September 14 was the Riviera Theatre North Tonawanda, NY a 1920s vaudeville and movie theatre with a working 1926 Wurlitzer Theatre Organ. In the 1920s and 1930s these theatre organs were produced and shipped all over the world from the factory in North Tonawanda, NY only a few blocks from the Riviera Theatre. This organ was used as a demonstration instrument for many sales as customers imagined how it would sound in their theatre back home. The Organist provided a demonstration of his own with preshow music. These community theatres across the country all seem to have some unique feature of preservation and here the Wurlitzer Theatre Organ is faithfully maintained by volunteers keeping it in fabulous working order.
September 15 Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, NY; September 17 two performances at Stage West dinner theatre in Mississauga, ON, Canada; September 18 Carmens Banquet & Convention Ctr Hamilton, ON; September 19 The Imperial Theatre Sarnia, ON. The review written on this performance by David Nichols for the local news paper has been posted on The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra Facebook page and gives a very precise and accurate description of a performance that the Glenn Miller Orchestra gives day in and day out regardless of the venue or size of the audience. If you haven't seen the review, it is posted at the bottom of this section.
On September 21 the Glenn Miller Orchestra performed at the Donna Reed Theatre in Denison, IA. The Donna Reed foundation was founded after her death and maintains this historic theatre. Ms. Reed was raised on a farm about eight miles south of Denison where as a young women she performed all the chores children had on the farm of the 1920s and 1930s from milking cows to whatever was needed to be done. She would come to this theatre as a child to watch movies and see live performances and dream of one day being a star. Her dream came true in Hollywood working in many films with the greatest stars of the time and winning an Oscar as best supporting actress in From Here to Eternity. Ms. Reed never forgot her home town of Denison which was not unlike the imaginary town she and Jimmy Stewart lived in for the Holiday Classic It's A Wonderful Life and when she passed she willed her Oscar to the City of Denison. This theatre and the work which continues here is part of her legacy.
From Denison, IA the GMO traveled to Torrington, WY for a performance at Eastern Wyoming College September 23rd. September 25th performance was at the Mary W. Sommervold Hall Sioux Falls, SD. The GMO meets thousands of fans new and longtime fans, young and old everywhere we go and sometimes people who have had distinguished careers. We had the pleasure of meeting George McGovern at this performance. Besides being a US Senator and the Democratic Presidential nominee in 1972 Mr. McGovern is a veteran who flew 35 missions over German Occupied Europe in a B24 Liberator during the Second World War and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, amongst other medals, for safely landing his badly damaged aircraft and saving the lives of his crew. The GMO recognizes US military veterans at every performance and there are often World War II veterans like Mr. McGovern who come out, say hello and have a story to tell.
The next stop was Johnson Fine Arts Center Aberdeen, SD September 26th. September 29th performance was at the Historic Paramount Theatre in downtown Denver, CO. September 30th rounded off the month in Laramie, WY at the Laramie Plains Civic Center.
During September the GMO has traveled from Alexandria, VA near the Nation's Capital, sea level in Atlantic City, NJ, into Ontario, Canada and up to Laramie Wyoming at 7165 feet in elevation between the Snowy Range and the Laramie Range nestled against the Rocky Mountains. With performances in 8 States, passage through several others and four performances in Ontario Canada the GMO continues to work for nearly full to sold out houses of very enthusiastic audiences.
If you follow the GMO on Facebook at The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra page http://www.facebook.com/glennmillerorchestra you will have seen the photos and audience comments. Knowing that many of you do not, we will continue to take you on tour with the GMO with the website touring page www.glennmillerorchestra.com and these newsletters. We look forward to performing for you.
Glenn Miller Orchestra Concert Review by David Nichols
(Sept. 19, 2012)
A string of musical pearls was presented last night at the Imperial Theatre to a crowd of over 600 enthusiastic music lovers.
The Glenn Miller Orchestra played with passion and precision. Dynamic extremes from the whispering muted trumpets and softly brushed cymbals to the full unleashed power of the band created a dramatic palette of instrumental colour. Even the fast trill-like vibrato, a classic trait of the Glenn Miller sound, was so together that many listeners thought they must have been enhanced by a Hammond-like synthesizer. There were no electronic aids here - just a remarkable display of instrumental expertise and expression.
Irene Burns demonstrated marvelous voice control and character from the deep and lyrical tones of "I Know Why" to the more direct and "out there" resonance of "That's Sabotage."
A highlight of the night was the orchestra's performance with the "Moonlight Serenaders," a vocal quintet, which shone especially in their rendition of "Chattanooga Choo-Choo."
The Glenn Miller Orchestra is blessed to have Nick Hilscher not only as its brilliant director, but as a dynamic vocal soloist, and gifted showman. Nick's warm introductions of the band members and invitations for them to solo flowed with the music, and his enlightening historical anecdotes brought the Glenn Miller era to life.
After the show, at the SCA reception for the band, I asked Nick how the band kept up such a high energy level considering that they are on the road for 42 weeks a year, and each week they present 4 or 5 concerts. Nick's reply was, "We all love what we're doing and feel lucky to be able to perform so often."
The final two selections on the program were "In The Mood" and "Moonlight Serenade." The solos in these last two works were a more obvious expression of how a band can put its own signature on a chart and still support the integrity of the music. Although the audience left the theatre to enter an overcast sky, the sound of moonlight was still in the air.
The program ended with a brilliant encore, "Here We Go Again." The Sarnia Concert Association's 77th season of celebrating world class music is off to a rousing start.
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| UPCOMING GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA SHOWS |
10/23/12 Gallo Center For The Arts, Modesto, CA 7:30 PM Concert
10/26/12 Fox Tucson Theatre with The Diamonds, Tucson, AZ
7 PM Concert
10/27/12 Yavapai College Performance Hall with The Diamonds,
Prescott, AZ 7:30 PM Concert
10/28/12 Chandler Center For the Arts with The Diamonds,
Chandler, AZ 3 PM Concert
11/01/12 Performing Arts Center of Pacific Grove, Pacific Grove, CA
7 PM Concert
11/02/12 Clark Center, Arroyo Grande CA, 7 PM Concert
11/03/12 High Street Arts Center, Moorpark, CA 2 PM Concert
11/04/12 Del Norte High School, San Diego, CA 7 PM Concert
11/07/12 West Ranch High School Theater, Stevenson Ranch, CA
7 PM Concert
11/08/12 Palm Springs High School Auditorium, Palm Springs, CA
7 PM Concert
11/09/12 Visalia Fox Theatre, Visalia, CA 7 PM Concert
11/10/12 Walnut High School Performing Arts Center, Walnut, CA
3 PM Concert
11/10/12 Walnut High School Performing Arts Center, Walnut, CA
7 PM Concert
11/14-12/15/12 Japan Tour 2012
12/18/12 Pritchard Laughlin Civic Center, Cambridge, OH, 7:30 PM Concert
12/20/12 Performing Arts Center, Wisconsin Rapids, WI 7:30 PM Concert
12/28-12/31/12 Great American Steamboat Cruise
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Trivia Contest
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New Question: Glenn, being a man of patriotism and action, began a radio series for the men in our training camps. For each program he selected five camps, which were asked to conduct polls for their favorite songs. The five would be played on the air; listeners would be asked to vote for their favorites, and the camp that had proposed the winning song would be awarded a combination radio-phonograph and fifty records, not necessarily all by the Glenn Miller band. Name the radio series that was dedicated to those in service.
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Our last newsletter trivia question and answer:
Question: Music publishing could be a profitable venture for band leaders and in the fall of 1940 Glenn started his own music-publishing company. What was the name of his company?
Answer: Mutual Music Society.
Congratulations to Robert from Beachwood, OH who won the Army Air Forces Overseas Farewell Performances CD and Guy Lombardo with Al Pierson CD.
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