2009 Concert Information

We are pleased to announce our hosts for this years concert are Mike Binkley and Angela Davis, co-anchors of WCCO 4 News This Morning.

Manny Laureano
Manny began his musical studies in the New York City public school system and received his Bachelor of Music Degree from the Juilliard School in 1977. He was appointed principal trumpet of the Seattle Symphony, a post he held for four years before serving in his current position as principal trumpet with the Minnesota Orchestra. As a conductor, he has worked with a variety of ensembles, ranging from having been Music Director of the Calhoun-Isles Community Band to a guest stint with the Minnesota Orchestra. He has been in demand as clinician for young orchestras throughout the state. In 2002, Manny and Claudette were invited to guest-conduct the National Suzuki Youth Orchestra Festival Orchestra and were invited to serve again in 2004. Manny has served as Co-Artistic Director of the Minnesota Youth Symphonies since 1988, conducts the MYS Symphony Orchestra, and is the brass and woodwind coach for the MYS Repertory Orchestra. He has commissioned many works from local composers over his tenure at MYS. Manny was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra for the 2005-2006 seasons and still serves as a cover conductor and an occasional conductor for the orchestra's Young Person's concerts.
 

John Hoffacker
Internationally renowned as a conductor of intelligent and passionate performances, John Hoffacker received a doctorate degree in conducting at the Eastman School in Rochester, New York. For eleven years he led one of New England's pre-eminent chamber choruses, Cantemus, and was associate conductor of the Nashua (NH) Symphony Orchestra. Since moving to Minnesota in 2004 he has founded and conducts the Mississippi Valley Chorale and Chorus Polaris, serves as Director of Music at the Church of the Epiphany in Plymouth, and sings professionally as tenor soloist with orchestras and in the Minnesota Chorale. At the University of Minnesota he teaches Score Study and Choral Literature.
 

Joshua Clausen
Joshua Clausen wrote the arrangement for 'Amazing Grace 9-11' which will have its World Premier on 09/11/2009. Clausen is a Minneapolis-based composer and performer that creates and performs music in varied styles, creating new works which exert "a dynamic intensity to [their] influence of popular culture" (Computer Music Journal). Equally at home with styles from the traditional to the avant garde, he has presented choral, chamber and symphonic music, electroacoustic music, interactive electronic music, and sound installations in venues as diverse as Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, the Saint Paul Cathedral and the Burren College of Art in Southern Ireland. In addition to frequent performances and events in and around the Twin Cities, his work has been performed in New York City, Belfast, New Orleans, Portland, Santa Barbara, San Jose and Kansas City. Clausen holds a Bachelors degree in Theory from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, where his primary teachers were Daniel Breedon, Liviu Marinescu and Steve Makela and an Master of Arts in Composition from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where his primary instructors were Douglas Geers, Adam Greene, Alex Lubet and Judith Lang Zaimont.
 

Shelley Hanson
Shelley Hanson's compositions have been performed throughout the United States, and in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Also a record producer, clarinetist, and conductor, she and her band, Klezmer and All That Jazz, have performed her concerto for klezmer band and orchestra with The Minnesota Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, and many other groups. In 1999, Minnesota Youth Symphonies (MYS) commissioned her suite Islas y Montanas (Islands and Mountains), movements of which have been performed by major symphonies such as the North Carolina Symphony and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. She received a Ph.D. in Performance, Music Theory, and Music Literature from Michigan State University. She is currently clarinet instructor at Macalester College. Her Master's degree in the Woodwind Specialist program involved her studying and performing on each of the orchestral woodwind instruments. Shelley joined the MYS staff in 2002.
 

The Zuhrah Pipes & Drums
The Zuhrah Pipes & Drums began its rich history in 1959, when it was chartered as an active unit of the Zuhrah Shrine. The Pipes & Drums have had the pride and honor to represent both the Zuhrah Shrine of Minneapolis, as well as our grand philanthropy, the Shriners Hospitals for Children, throughout North America.

The Zuhrah Pipes & Drums perform regularly throughout the Midwest at parades and other civic functions, as well as at weddings and other social engagements. In addition, our competition band routinely competes in the Midwest Shrine Pipe Band Association competition, where we were crowned champions in 1997, as well as Imperial Shrine competitions all over North America.
 

Heroes of '76
Heroes of '76 unit of Minnesota Chapter #25, National Sojourners is an organization of Freemasons who have served or are serving in the Military of the US or its allies.
 

Bob Bayers
Bob, the producer of the 9-11 Tribute Concert, owns the family business Bayers Do it Best Hardware located in Linden Hills just a few blocks from the Lake Harriet Band Shell. If he didn't end up in the hardware business he would have probably been in some area of theater – his second love. Producing the 9-11 Tribute each year is a passion for him. He thanks his understanding family and store employees for their help each summer as the concert is planned. Please plan on attending the 9-11 Tribute each year on September 11th at the Band Shell. —God Bless America

Orchestra Conductor – Manny Laureano
Chorus Conductor – John Hoffacker
Tribute Producer – Bob Bayers

Co-sponsored by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board

Fanfare for the Common Man
Aaron Copland 9-11 Tribute Orchestra
Raising of The American Flag
Scotland The Brave
Zuhrah Shrine Pipes & Drums
Flag Processional
National Sojourners, Heroes of ’76 unit of Minnesota, Chapter #25
The Star-Spangled Banner
9-11 Tribute Orchestra (Audience sing-along)
Flag Tribute
Heroes of ’76*
Invocation
Tyler Christiansen-Pastor Lake Harriet United Methodist Church
Welcome
Co-hosts Mike Binkley and Angela Davis, WCCO 4 TV
Groove – Shelly Hanson
9-11 Tribute Orchestra
Adagio for Strings – Samuel Barber
9-11 Tribute Orchestra
Armed Forces Salute – arr. Lowden
9-11 Tribute Orchestra
Washingon Post March – John Phillip Sousa
9-11 Tribute Orchestra
America the Beautiful – Samuel Ward/Katherine Lee Bates/arr. A. Luck
9-11 Tribute Orchestra & Chorus (Audience sing-along)
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor – Irving Berlin
9-11 Tribute Orchestra & Chorus
Va, Pensiero (from Nabucco) – Giuseppi Verdi
9-11 Tribute Orchestra & Chorus
Let me fly – Robert DeCormier
9-11 Tribute Chorus
9/11/2001 Flashback - Victims Remembrance Banners Revealed
Mike Binkley and Angela Davis
1812 Overture – Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
9-11 Tribute Orchestra & Chorus
Candlelight Vigil
audience may begin to light their candles. Boy Scouts will assist
Amazing Grace 9-11 *World Premier* – Traditional/arr. Joshua Clausen
Zuhrah Shrine Pipes & Drums, 9-11 Tribute Orchestra/Chorus
God Bless America – Irving Berlin/Roy Ringwald
9-11 Tribute Orchestra & Chorus (Audience sing-along)

* an organization of Freemasons who have served or are serving in the Military of the US or its allies. Robert Selden-Presenter, Fred Vihovde, Dale Seubert, Don Wurden, Elden Larson, Ron Campbell, Jay Lietzow

America the Beautiful
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

1812 Overture (English translation)
Spasi, Gospodi, liudi Tvoie
Grant salvation to thy people, Lord, and we
pray thee bless thine inheritance, O God.
Grant victory to those who fight to save
our righteous faith and our sacred homeland,
and from all evil deliver them. Then the guardian
of thy grace the cross will forever be.
Bozhe tsaria krani
God save our gracious Tsar, valiant and
righteous, reigning in glory, prevailing
against all his foes.
 
This years concert is dedicated to the memory of Jim Bayers. Jim was the younger brother of 9-11 Tribute Producer Bob Bayers who passed away on 6/06/2009 at age 50. Thank you Jim. I love you and miss you. Bob

This year’s 9-11 Tribute Memorial Concert is being recorded and will be made into an Audio CD. Please visit our web page www.our911tribute.com to order your copy of our concert CD for a minimum donation to help support this annual event. The 9-11 Tribute is the inspiration of it’s Producer Bob Bayers.

Bob thanks the hundreds of volunteers for working so hard each year to make this annual event so beautiful. The 9-11 Tribute will take place every September 11th at 7pm at the Lake Harriet Band Shell. Please visit www.our911tribute.com to view information on this and previous years concerts. - God Bless America!

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