Musician Needed
Marquette Volleyball - Looking for any size groups to perform the national anthem at our BIG EAST volleyball games this season, September 9 - November 11, write for details, Vanessa Farinelli, 414-288-0288, Milwaukee. The Milwaukee Festival Brass is seeking a new musical director for the 2011/2012 season. Founded in 1985 and comprised of 30 brass and percussion players, the Milwaukee Festival Brass is Milwaukee's only British Brass Band, and plays a diverse and challenging repertoire, including traditional, classical, Broadway, and contemporary music. We are a sociable, friendly band that is proving very popular with audiences in the area. Our season runs from September to early June, and consists of weekly Tuesday night rehearsals, four scheduled concerts, an annual competition and other occasional performances. The Milwaukee Festival Youth Brass is also seeking a new musical director for the 2011/2012 season. This group of 20-25 musicians supports the MFB by offering Milwaukee area youth the opportunity to play a variety of British Brass Band music, with weekly Tuesday rehearsals (currently at Mount Mary College), and several performances, including one with the MFB. Dairy Statesmen a Mens' Acapella Chorus near Racine, is looking for new members. Contact Dan Schaumberg. South Milwaukee Municipal Band - Under the direction of Bobby Lindsey, is seeking musicians. All band instruments welcomed. Rehearsals are Tuesday evenings, 7:30 p.m. at the South Milwaukee Middle School band room. We play a wide selection of music (marches, patriotic pieces, show tunes, and more.) Contact Jody Daharsh, 414-764-6279 or Bobby Lindsey, 414-255-8645.
Milwaukee - Free rehearsal space. Carolyne, 414-263-2255. Cedarburg - Lakeshore Symphonic Band needs percussionist. Info, 414-462-8821. Kenosha - Tom Ceschin seeking creative, play by ear jazz bass player. Prefer Stand Up, but any type OK. Kenosha area. Two form dual first, then bring in a percussionist for eventual. Tom Ceschin, Kenosha. Kenosha - Want to Start Kenosha Community Jazz Band or Big Band. There is none currently and this is not good. Jazz Musician, 224-305-2451, Kenosha. Glendale - Brass Bell Music Store is hiring! Brass Bell Music, 210 W Silver Spring Dr., Milwaukee. Becky Hineman, 414-963-1000. Boulder Junction - Guitar and/or keyboard for working band. Rock, blues, originals. Vocals a plus. Northern Wisconsin or Upper Michigan area. Peter Stoltman, 715-614-4142. Milwaukee - Big Band Jazz Group seeks additional members. Becky Hineman, 414-687-1885. Milwaukee - Milwaukee Metropolitan Voices sseks soloists, instrumentals and chorus members. Auditions are held by appointment. Rehearsals are held in Wauwatosa or Milwaukee. The audition will include singing a prepared song, sight-singing and music reading assessment. Soloists and instrumentalists contact: Trefor Williams (414) 778-1940. Chorus members contact: Mary Waller, (414) 352-2212. We are a new start up group and at this point are unable to offer pay for your work. However your enthusiastic help and support would be very much appreciated. Milwaukee - Womens Voices Milwaukee announces opening for Artistic Director. Requires broad background in music styles and experience in choral direction plus preparation of two annual concerts. Send resume and references. Women's Voices Milwaukee, 414-841-3707. South Milwaukee - Paid keyboardist job for informal weekly choir at St. John's Catholic Church. Please phone Dan Jeziorski, 414-764-2257. Milwaukee - Front man looking for backup. Primarily bass and drums. My roots are in rock, folk, country, and blues but have moved into Progressive/New Age. Many years experience. I have practice space. Rich Bowen, 414-535-0402. West Allis Senior Center - Musicians invited to try out for a new Friday, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., band group. WASC, 7001 W. National Av., West Allis. Stop in or phone Denise Koenig, 414-302-8700. Green Bay - Straight Up variety band seeks lead guitar. 1-3 gigs monthly, some travel. Setlist is a mix of pop, country, oldies, rock. Backup vocals a plus. Tanya Witt, 920-366-5119. Milwaukee - We are inviting musicians to perform inside the Milwaukee Public Market during the hours of 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. However, we would be open to consider other times that you may suggest. We are very interested in jazz, blues, classical, bluegrass, or folk musicians. Contact David E. Wade or 414-336-1111. Cudahy - Seniors who like to sing the songs of the 1930s, 1940s and beyond, are invited to join a group at Kelly Senior Center, 6211 S. Lake Dr., that meets at 10:30 a.m. Thursdays to sing together, laugh at corny jokes and enjoy each other's company. Phone Henry Jisa, director or Mary Becker, pianist, 414-481-9611. Door County - Baileys Harbor Community Association is looking for bands (entertainment) for our July 4, 2012, parade and celebration in our town, Baileys Harbor. Barbara Anschutz, Parade Chairperson.
Milwaukee - Organization for Active Seniors in Society (O.A.S.I.S), 2414 W. Mitchell St., 414-647-6053.
Milwaukee - Wilson Park Senior Center, or register at information desk, 2601 W. Howard Av., 414-282-5566. |
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Green Bay - Bari sax, bass sax and clarinet player looking for a home. Don Kolczak, 920-819-2360, Green Bay. (11/15/2010 - 5/15/2011) Oshkosh- Male age 58 looking to join Southern Gospel quartet. Baratone or some tenor. Dave, 920-233-3822. (12/28/09 - 1/28/10) Beaver Dam - Female Christian singer looking to join a band. Dorothy Steger, 920-887-3356. Fort Atkinson - Clarinetist wants playing opportunities, enjoys classical. Tom Filipiak , 920-568-0943. Southeast Wisconsin - Dixieland music by Dixie Doodlers. Find out more, Mark Kranz, 262-679-9475. Plover - Singer available to front western swing and classic country {with class} vocally versatile. R.C., 715-342-4594. Racine and Kenosha - Piano Lessons. Dennis Hankinson, 262-902-8500. |
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Donate An Instrument - The Allouez Village Band collects and reconditions used musical instruments for disadvantaged children in the Green Bay area. |
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Music News | |
| Milwaukee Festival Brass - Seventh International - Awarded US Open Brass Band Championships in Chicago on November 10, 2007. Competing against some of the top British Brass Bands from the US and UK, the Milwaukee Festival Brass was rated as one of the more entertaining bands on stage. Their program of Broadway, International themes and marches featured both brass and percussion soloists. The Milwaukee Festival Brass, consisting of 35 brass and percussion players, plays many concerts. | |
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Red Mill Jazz Jam (PDF 6k) |
Norrie Cox Remembered (PDF 7k) |
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It's About the Music CD. Jill Jensen and Jack Grassel. |
Annie Denison Sings a Spell. |
| Milwaukee Vocal Express - MVEvolution DVDs are priced at $25 (plus $4 shipping and handling) available by check or money order made out to Midwest Vocal Express, P.O.Box 543, Greendale, WI 53129-0543 or phone 1-888-240-4426. | Remember the Mark Kappus Big Band with 18 members? They played music November 18 and December 19, 1992 (PDF 26k). Ballroom dancing was open to the public for four hours at Bode's Victory Hall, 3665 E. Grange, Cudahy. |
The Price of the Arts, Funding Milwaukee's Creative Community for 2006
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| The Kenosha Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Richard Czerwonky, played a concert on January 16, 1942, their second season, at Mary D. Bradford High School Auditorium. Some of their early concerts had audiences as large as 1,600 people. Here is the two-page Program (PDF 195k). Do you recognize the names of any musicians? | Pulaski High School Marching Band of Pulaski, Wisconsin, directed by Tom Busch, marched in the Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena, California, televised on January 1, 2007. They raised $300,000 to pay for the trip. Not to be confused with another Pulaski High School Band, in Milwaukee. Around 1957 it was directed by Henry Raccoli who arranged All Hail Pulaski (PDF 67k), the school song. |
Jack Clark - Washboard Jack, biography (PDF 13k). |
Milwaukee Choristers New Christmas CD Milwaukee Choristers new Christmas CD Shout Now, Be Joyful features Christmas concerts at St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church in Wauwatosa in 2003, 2004 and 2005. There are 18 cuts on the 66-minute CD with the 75-voice chorus under the direction of Dr. James B. Kinchen, Jr. Songs include J.S. Bach's Shout Now, Be Joyful, which provided the inspiration for the CD's title; a Rene Clausen arrangement of Adolphe Adam's familiar O Holy Night and an arrangement of Joy to the World by Frank Kuykendall. In a more contemporary vein, the CD features selections by Irving Berlin and John Williams, and a special arrangement of Jingle Bells by the late Ray Charles, founder and director of the Ray Charles Singers. Cut 19 is an instrumental with flutist Ana de la Cuesta Gerlach (a Chorus soprano) and pianist Patricia Ilika Black performing Black's arrangement of Away in a Manger. Call 414-354-1933, Order the CD, from any member of the chorus, or available at concerts, $15. |
Ken Hanner - Banjo man, Biography (PDF 9k). |
Jim Hayden - Biography (PDF 10k). |
Karen Deschere - New President at Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. WCM President Karen Deschere (PDF 7k). |
Joyce Altman - Steps down as President of Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. Decade of leadership resulted in financial stability, renovated facility. WCM Past President Joyce Altman (PDF 5k). |
John Knurr - All round musician, Biography (PDF 13k). |
The Beat Goes On - The Milwaukee Police Band, America's oldest police department band continues to perform under the direction of Karen M. Dubis. Milwaukee Police Band Continues (PDF 5k). |
A grand finale for Save the Music - VH1 and community effort gave $1,600,000 to Milwaukee Public Schools. |
Sound Taps Wisconsin - A statewide competition designed to encourage Wisconsin students to assist their local communities in the live sounding of Taps for military funeral honors. Most people don't realize that currently only 1 in 4 Veterans will have a live bugler to sound Taps for their military funeral honors. With only 21 military buglers available across our state, Wisconsin students are the next best source of capable buglers. |
| The Hillcrest Tops Out - Live jazz music and musician sit-ins end at the Hillcrest Pub & Grille in Waukesha. Hillcrest Live Music Ends (PDF 8k). | |
| Remember the Milwaukee Civic Symphonic Band, directed by Paul Anderson with soprano Joan Snyder? Here's their April 30, 1972, two-page Program (PDF 122k) of a concert played at the Cooley Auditorium in M.A.T.C. Do you recognize the names of any musicians? | Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra - Relocates to Walnut Street (PDF 5k). Alumni musicians of Music For Youth and MYSO, register to keep informed of MYSO's bright future. |
Harping at Milwaukee Public Schools - Jeanne Kahn taught 200 students with 38 harps. The largest harp program in the country. Jeanne Kahn Harp Ensemble (PDF 5k). |
Dick Metko, accordionist, passes away April 20, 2004. Dick Metko Obituary (PDF 7k). |
The Milwaukee Choristers - Their first CD features 24 selections from concerts directed by Dr. James B. Kinchen, Jr. CD-1 (PDF 4k). A second CD with 24 selections that mirror a typical Choristers' concert. CD-2 (PDF 4k). |
Prometheus Trio - The exceptional young violinist Jeanyi Kim, left in the fall of 2004 to finish her doctorate in musical arts at Yale University. Stefanie Jacob, pianist; and husband Scott Tisdel, cellist; will invite guest violinists. Promethius Trio (PDF 7k). |
A Clarinet Clinic featuring Julie DeRoche was held at Interstate Music, New Berlin. Julie is Leblanc's Director of Performance Education; served as the coordinator of the DePaul University's woodwind department; currently performs with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and numerous chamber and orchestral groups; and is Past President for the International Clarinet Association. Rich Regent, Wisconsin clarinetist, and Julie exchanged clarinet tips at the clinic. |
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Salaries and 2005 negotiations. Minimum salary now $53,625. Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Salaries and 2003 Negotiations - Minimum annual salary for Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra musicians, as of June, 2003, is $53,372 for 42 weeks per year. This ranks 21st among 48 member orchestras. Salaries range from New York Philharmonic of $92,300 to San Diego Symphony with $24,720. New negotiations are planned for July, 2005. |
| Gary Lavann and Rich Regent were in the Walker Junior High School Band with Henry Canitz, Director. Photograph (PDF 104k) taken May 3, 1956. Richard, clarinet, is on riser 2nd from left, and Gary, trumpet, has blond hair. Both are now in the Dixie Doodlers Dixieland Band. | MacDowell Club of Milwaukee - Founded in 1909 has an interesting history. MacDowell Club of Milwaukee History (PDF 9k). |
Dave Bock - Trombonist, biography (PDF 11k). |
Milwaukee Amateur Radio Club - The Hams' Song (PDF 38k), written by Hollywood composer and band leader LeRoy Priest, was first presented at the National Radio Amateur Convention held in the Milwaukee Auditorium in September, 1948. It was then used for the December 9, 1982, MRAC Old Timers Nite. |
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