Lawrence Isaacson,
Music Director

Date Time	Wednesday, July 20, 2005 7:30 PM
Location	Hatch Memorial Shell 1 David G. Mugar Way Boston, MA 02114 map & directions: Google Maps · MapQuest
Admission	FREE to all

Thanks for participating in our Hatch Shell conducting auction!

Our winning bidder will conduct The Stars and Stripes Forever, our national march, in the same venue where Arthur Fiedler, John Williams, and Keith Lockhart have conducted the Boston Pops.

No experience is necessary. The winning bidder in our auction, which ran on eBay until 8 PM EDT on July 10, 2005, will receive a conducting lesson from MWS Music Director Lawrence Isaacson and a souvenir baton with which to conduct the Metropolitan Wind Symphony, New England's Premier Concert Band, at our Hatch Shell performance on the evening of July 20, 2005.

For full details, consult our auction flyer (36k PDF). Contact Bob Piankian at rap@mws-boston.org with any questions.

View this movie (1.4 MB QuickTime) of a previous MWS Hatch Shell performance and imagine yourself leading the group!

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Concert Program

Olympic Fanfare and Theme	John Williams/Curnow
Suite of Old American Dances	Robert Russell Bennett
Western One Step Wallflower Waltz Rag
Second Suite in F	Gustav Holst
March Song without Words "I'll Love My Love" Song of the Blacksmith Fantasia on the "Dargason"
An American in Paris	George Gershwin/Brubaker
INTERMISSION
Light Cavalry Overture	Franz von Suppé/Fillmore
The Sound of Music	Richard Rodgers/Bennett
The Stars and Stripes Forever	John Philip Sousa
Auction Winner, guest conductor
The Rakes of Mallow	Leroy Anderson
St. Louis Blues March	W. C. Handy/Burgett & Gray

The Metropolitan Wind Symphony is funded in
part by Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state
agency that supports public programs in
the arts, humanities, and sciences.