Memories, nostalgia to flow at Bordeaux Band concert Sunday

The concert will be the final one conducted by the band’s founder and director for the past 13 years, Carola Winkle. She has selected “Past, Present and Future” as the concert theme. As the theme suggests, music from several time periods will be presented.

As it often has, the concert will begin with a John Philip Sousa march. This one is “Black Horse Troop.” It will be followed with a Welsh folksong by Robert Foster.

Three clarinet soloists will be featured on von Weber’s “Rondo from Concerto No. 1.” They are Kimberly Ouderkirk, Malinda Linegar and Laura Empson. All three have been Winkle’s students and are graduates of Chadron State.

In addition, Dr. William Winkle, music professor emeritus of CSC and the Bordeaux Band director’s husband, will be featured as the tuba soloist for Herbert L. Clarke’s “Maid of the Mist.” Winkle retired in 2005 after 34 years as director of bands at CSC.

Additional works representing the present and future to be presented are by Samuel Hazo, Melvin Shelton and Nebraska composer Jay Gilbert of Doane College.

Concluding the concert will be Warren Barker’s arrangement, ”Tin Pan Alley,” that features melodies that came from the 1930s and have remained popular. They include “Oh, You Beautiful Doll,” “I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover,” “Baby Face,” “Harvest Moon” and “Happy Days Are Here Again.”

Seven charter members of the Bordeaux Community Band who have remained active throughout its 13-year history will be recognized at the concert. They are LeMay Britain, Julie Duncan, Dr. Harry Holmberg, Don Housh, Barb McCartney, Betty Reading and William Winkle.

The band was formed by Carola Winkle in the fall of 1993 with the blessing of Dr. Sam Rankin, then president of CSC, and Dr. Merlyn Gramberg, the academic vice president.

Musicians from a far away as Sidney to the south and Hot Springs, S.D., to the north and from Merriman to Crawford along Highway 20 have been members of the band. Two concerts have been presented annually. Often the Bordeaux Band has combined with other groups.

Numerous soloists have been featured and an array of small groups from within the band have performed. Through the years, multiple members of several families have played in the band. Those families include the Cassidays, Daileys, DeWitts, Gulbransons, Millers and Sprentalls.

Winkle recalls that the band performed at a community memorial service following the 9/11 attacks in 2002. It also played when the traveling Vietnam Memorial was displayed in Chadron in 2003 and when the 1057th National Guard Unit returned home from Iraq in 2004.

The Bordeaux Community Band was presented a Citation of Excellence Award from the National Band Association in 2005 and it took part in the National Anthem Project sponsored nationally by Music Educators National Conference in 2006.

Tickets for Sunday’s concert will be available by contacting the Memorial Hall box office at 432-6360 between 2 and 6 p.m. each weekday. Tickets reserved in advance will be $5 for adults and $3 for youths 18 and under.