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Summer Season 2019 – June 14 – Flag Day
June 14, 2019 @ 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Free
Medina Community Band will the second concert of the 2019 summer season, a celebration of 160 years (since 1859) of presenting community concerts in Medina, on Friday, June 14, 2019, in Medina’s Uptown Park Square Gazebo. Concerts will continue every Friday through Friday, July 26. A special July 4 concert is planned as well. There will be no concert on Friday, July 5. All concerts will begin at 8:30p.
Concert cancellations will be posted on the website and those individuals who have signed up for the “Band Fan Newsletter” will receive notification via email.
Concerts by the Medina Community Band traditionally last approximately one hour.
Featured tuba soloist will be Andrew Tatman performing Andrea Catozzi’s Beelzebub and Sue McLaughlin and Amy Muhl performing the first movement from Vivaldi’s Concerto in C Major for Two Piccolos. The concert is dedicated to the memory of former Medina Community Band trumpet player Robert James Ullery.
Special recognition of Flag Day will feature Suppé overture to the operetta Light Cavalry; Duble’s march Old Glory Triumphant; Alford’s march Vanished Army; Bernstein’s Simple Song from his Mass; Bidgood’s march Vimy Ridge; and Sousa’s marche The Stars and Stripes Forever. A patriotic salute, containing Lowden’s Arm Forces Salute; Dvořák’s Goin’ Home; and, Berlin’s God Bless America will also be featured.
The ice cream social for June 14 will be sponsored by United Church of Christ, Congregational.
Looking ahead, Medina Community Band Association announces a special “Family Fun Night at the Movies” for the 21! According to Medina Community Band Association President Lu Ann Gresh, Band Fans, Parents, and Grandparents, Mark your calendars now for a family fun night concert on June 21. We invite all our princesses, pirates, and super-heroes to come in costume and participate while The Medina Community Band entertains you with music from the movies. You will be able to tap your toes to music from “Captain America” and “Jurassic Park“. Our pirates will dance to the beat of “Pirates of the Caribbean“, and our princesses with sing along to highlights from “Frozen“. We will take you to a galaxy far away while performing “The Marches, from Star Wars“. The band will invite our guests in costume to form a parade during our opening number, “Pixar Movie Magic”. We will end the evening by asking the little ones in our audience to help conduct our final piece, “The Stars and Stripes Forever“. Please join us for a night that will spark imagination for young and young at heart.
Membership in MCB is open and there are no dues or auditions; however, members are expected to maintain a regular attendance. The band rehearses on Wednesday evening from 7p – 9p in the orchestra room of Medina High School (777 East Union Street, Medina) during June and July; and September through the end of May rehearsing in the band room of Highland Middle School (3880 Ridge Road, Medina). The band also presents their popular summer series every Friday, June through July, in Medina’s Uptown Park Gazebo. Each year the band presents at a winter concert, spring concert, and the popular “Sousa Concert” at EHOVE Career Center (Milan, OH). For additional information on the 2019 concert season or Medina Community Band, contact Neiman at 330.725.8198 or MarcusNeiman@medinacommunityband.org.
Soloists
Andrew Tatman, tuba soloist
Andrew Tatman, tuba. Originally from Wadsworth (OH), Andrew is currently finishing his Masters of Music in Music Theory at Ohio University in Athens, OH where he also received his Bachelors of Music in Tuba Performance (2017). This fall, Andrew will begin pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts in Tuba Performance at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA. Andrew has performed with regional orchestras around Ohio including the Ohio Valley Symphony (Gallipolis, OH) and the River Cities Symphony (Marietta, OH). While at Ohio University, Andrew performed with the Graduate Brass Quintet, Symphony Orchestra, and Wind Symphony which included a 2016 performance at New York’s Carnegie Hall. He is also a founding member and sousaphone player of Largemouth Brass Band, a New Orleans style brass band based in Athens, OH. While at the University of Georgia, Andrew will be studying with David Zerkel, but his prior teachers include Dr. Jason Roland Smith and Bernie Williams.
Sue McLaughlin (right) has been a member of the Medina Community Band since 1994 and is a
Amy Muhl & Sue McLaughlin, flute soloists
former flute student of Deidre McGuire. While in school, she was a member of the band, orchestra, and jazz band, playing clarinet and saxophone. In addition to playing flute and piccolo in the Medina Community Band, Sue has also performed with Marcus Neiman and The Sounds of Sousa Band, Symphony West Orchestra, Medina Show Biz, St. Paul Lutheran Church orchestra, St. Paul Lutheran Celebration Worship Team, the Western Star Flute Choir and several other area churches. She is retired from 24 years with Southwest General Health Center. Sue lives in Medina with her two cats, Truffles and Kokopelli. She has a married daughter and two wonderful grandsons! She is section leader for the flute section, media/public relations contact for the band and secretary of the Medina Community Band Association.
Amy Muhl (above left) has been a member of Medina Community Band since 1998. Originally from Lyme, Connecticut, moved to Ohio to study music education at Oberlin Conservatory in 1991. She graduated in 1995 and taught orchestra for two years in the Willard City Schools. Amy received her masters of music education from Kent State University on a scholarship, in 1998. She then taught instrumental music at Buckeye High School, in Medina (OH) and in the fall of 1999, became the elementary band teacher for Buckeye Local Schools. In the fall of 2001, she began teaching elementary instrumental music at Central Intermediate School in the Wadsworth City Schools. Amy also plays flute/piccolo and piano and teaches private lessons, in addition to being a member of Medina Community Band and Sounds of Sousa Band. She is also treasurer of the Medina Community Band Association. Amy resides in Wadsworth with her husband Frank, and three children Kenneth, Eva and Simon.
In Memory – Robert James Ullery
November 7, 1927 – August 16, 2018
Robert “Bob” James Ullery, from Tannersville, New York (and resident of Latham NY, Arlington, VA and Medina, OH), born on November 7, 1927 in Syracuse, New York, to the late Ruth Beale Ullery (d. 1/2/1999)and the late Frank M. Ullery (d. 7/23/1984), passed away on August 16, 2018 in Medina, Ohio. He graduated from Oswego State Teachers College (now S.U.N.Y. at Oswego) in 1951 and completed graduate school there in 1953. Robert had previously served as a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army from 1945 to 1948 serving in the post war occupation forces. It was there that he met and married his beloved wife, the late Ursula Margaret Kampe Ullery (d. 7/5/2002). Subsequent to her death in 2002, he enjoyed travel and companionship with the late Helga Vaishvila.
He was a dedicated educator serving in a variety of roles as an Industrial Arts Teacher, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, and retired as a Supervisor of Industrial Arts Education at New York State Education Department. In 1967, while on a leave of absence from New York State, he served under President Lyndon Johnson and Robert Sargent Shriver to help establish the Job Corps Training Centers. He was instrumental in the founding of the Plastics Education Foundation where he worked with industry leaders in the development of education curriculum, opportunities and resources. In retirement, he continued to serve as a mentor in music education through his creation and support of the Ullery Memorial Music Fund which provides band scholarships for high school music students in Tannersville, NY. His dedication to education continues in death by offering his remains for the furtherance of education.
Robert had many interests and hobbies including owning and operating a Christmas tree farm, leading the support crew for hot air balloon flights, church choir member/director, woodworker, builder, tool collector, antique automobile enthusiast, avid traveler and a passionate musician. He played in bands throughout the country and was a member of The Medina Community Band, The Medina Symphony Orchestra, Windjammers Unlimited, The Association of Concert Bands, The John Philip Sousa Foundation and many others. He founded The Memorial Concert Band of Colonie in Colonie, NY in 1999.
He had recently returned from a trip to France where he was honored to be selected to lay a wreath at The Normandy American Cemetery, the same cemetery where he had participated in the consecration ceremony in 1947 while a member of the HQ Band-Europe.
He was preceded in death by his brother, Charles Ullery (d. 10/12/1991). Robert is survived by his sons, James Karl Ullery (Joanne) and Kenneth Robert Ullery (Eunice); sister, Charlotte Ullery Hill; grandchildren, Scott Ullery, Amanda Ullery Pangborn, Christopher Ullery, and Caitlin Ullery Sheridan as well as four great grandchildren.
He was a member of Sharon Center United Methodist Church. Friends and family are welcome to attend the memorial service, officiated by Pastor Jane Piehl on September 15th at 11:00 AM at Sharon Center United Methodist Church, 6407 Ridge Road, Wadsworth, Ohio, 44281. In lieu of flowers, Robert had requested that donations be made to the Sharon Center United Methodist Church.