2010 Concert Information

We are pleased to announce our hosts for this years concert are John Lauritsen and Heather Brown, reporters at WCCO 4 News.

Amir Kats
Now in his fourth year with Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies GTCYS, Amir Kats (Artistic Director & Symphony Conductor) recently created a music blog (www.mrkatsopus.blogspot.com) to make orchestral music more accessible. A familiar figure in the youth orchestra world, he previously conducted the Albuquerque Youth Symphony and Santa Fe Youth Symphony in New Mexico, where he was active as a conductor, educator and clarinetist throughout the state. Prior to New Mexico he lived in New York, serving as music director of the Gemini Youth Orchestras (Long Island), assistant conductor of the New York Youth Symphony, and faculty member of The Juilliard School's Music Advancement Program, teaching inner-city public school students. He has also been associated with the Philadelphia Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra and the orchestra of the Rockland Summer Institute. Mr. Kats spent the summer of 2005 on the conducting faculty of the internationally-renowned Interlochen Arts Camp, and joined the faculty of the Allegro Orchestra Camp in 2008. Mr. Kats holds Bachelor of Music degrees in clarinet and music theory from the University of Michigan, Master of Music degrees in conducting and clarinet from Florida State University, and an Artist Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he held a Leopold Stokowski Fellowship and studied conducting with Otto-Werner Mueller. A native of Haifa, Israel, he was raised in the United States in a musical family, the son and grandson of pianists.
 

Karla Miller
Karla Miller is in her seventeenth year as full-time Music Instructor/Choral Director at North Hennepin Community College in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Prior to her full-time position, she was employed part time as Choral Director and Piano Instructor. She now directs three choral groups at NHCC; the College Choir, Chamber Singers and a Community Choir which draws many of its members from surrounding suburbs. Her classroom teaching includes teaching beginning Music Theory and Music Appreciation courses each term. From 1979 – 1982 she taught Vocal Music at Minnetonka East Jr. High. Karla also directs the Northwest Singing Seniors, a performing chorus of retired Sr. Citizens from surrounding suburbs. She also serves as the organist/accompanist at Brooklyn United Methodist Church in Brooklyn Center. As a music teacher and director she has been involved in professional organizations. ACDA (American Choral Directors Association) has been an integral part of her music life. She has served as Repertoire and Standards chair for Two Year Colleges at both the state and the north central regional levels. She has organized multiple state Fine Arts Music Festivals and currently serves as president of the State Fine Arts Council for MNSCU Two Year Colleges. Karla resides in Maple Grove with two of her sons, Jacob and Nathan, who are both attending North Hennepin Community College. Her oldest son, Ben is married and is in his final year of Physician Assistant schooling at Augsburg College. Karla received a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance and a Vocal Music Education degree from Augsburg College in Minneapolis. Her Master of Music Degree in Choral Conducting and Choral Literature is from St. Cloud State University. She is currently a member of ACDA, MMEA/MENC, MSCF and MEA.
 

Carol Barnett
Carol Barnett's music has been called audacious and engaging. Her varied catalog includes works for solo voice, piano, chorus, diverse chamber ensembles, orchestra, and wind ensemble. She was awarded the 2003 Nancy Van de Vate International Prize for Opera for her chamber opera, Snow, and Meeting at Seneca Falls was featured at the 2006 Diversity Festival in Red Wing, MN. Other recent works include The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass for VocalEssence and Monroe Crossing, Song of Perfect Propriety for the Cornell University Women's Chorus, Prelude and Romp for the Medalist Concert Band, and Praise, for organ and steel drum. She has been commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Harvard Glee Club, the Minnesota Music Teachers Association, and the Children's Theatre of Minneapolis, and has received grants from the Jerome Foundation, the Camargo Foundation, the Inter-University Research Committee on Cyprus, and most recently, the McKnight Foundation. A longtime presence on the Minnesota music scene, Barnett is a charter member of the American Composers Forum and a graduate of the University of Minnesota, where she studied composition with Dominick Argento and Paul Fetler, piano with Bernard Weiser, and flute with Emil J. Niosi. She was composer-in-residence with the Dale Warland Singers from 1992 to 2001, and currently teaches at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. Recent Works: American Kaleidoscope (for the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra; commissioned by Jim and Donna Peter to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary)
 

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

Fanfare for the Common Man
Aaron Copland 9-11 Tribute Orchestra
Raising of The American Flag
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
Debra Samuelson - Pastor, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Welcome
Co-hosts John Lauritsen and Heather Brown, WCCO 4 TV
American Kalidiscope – Carol Barnett
9-11 Tribute Orchestra
Symphony no. 2, finale – Howard Hanson
9-11 Tribute Orchestra
Armed Forces Salute – arr. Lowden
9-11 Tribute Orchestra and Chorus
Semper Fidelis – 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)
Selections from The Tender Land – Aaron Copland
Stomp your foot, Laurie's Song, The Promise of Living
9-11 Tribute Orchestra & Chorus
Let me fly – Robert DeCormier
9-11 Tribute Chorus
9/11/2001 Flashback - Victims Remembrance Banners Revealed
John Lauritsen and Heather Brown
Hymn to the Fallen – John Williams
9-11 Tribute Orchestra & Chorus
Candlelight Vigil
audience may begin to light their candles. Boy Scouts will assist
When the saints go marching in – Gospel hymn/arr. Rutter
9-11 Tribute Orchestra & Chorus
God Bless America – Irving Berlin/Roy Ringwald
9-11 Tribute Orchestra & Chorus (Audience sing-along)

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