2025-2026 Concert Season
Fall Concert
October 17,2025 at 7:30pm
​Location: Xavier High School Performing Arts Center
1600 W. Prospect Ave, Appleton, WI
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The program is centered on American music from the mid 20th century including Psalm, William Grant Still’s Folk Suite and music from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein. Since the concert will mark the band’s fortieth year of making music, and its first independent from the UW, George Gershwin’s Strike Up the Band will open our concert. Also on the program is Running Set by R.V. Williams. Our march for the evening will be The Glory of the Yankee Navy. Please join us as the band embarks on a new era.
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Holiday Concert
December 12, 2025 at 7:30pm
​Location: Neenah High School Performing Arts Center
500 Rocket Way, Neenah, WI
Our Holiday program will focus on two classics of the band repertoire, both based on folk music, Percy Grainger’s setting of Ye Banks and Breas O’Bonny Doon and Alfred Reed’s Armenian Dances I. We will begin with Rossini’s The Barber of Seville Overture. Holiday music includes Morton Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium and David Lovrien’s witty reimagining of well know Christmas carols, Minor Alterations 2, Carols from the Dark Side. Our march is Marche Grandioso´ by Roland Seitz.
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Winter Concert
March 13, 2026 at 7:30pm
​Location: Xavier High School Fine Arts Theater​
1600 W. Prospect Ave., Appleton, WI
Our program will feature music written for band by American composers, including Rejouissance (James Curnow), Blue Shades (Frank Ticheli), and First Suite for Band by Thom Ritter George as well as Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland transcribed for band. Also on the program is a new composition by Shuying Li, In This Breath, composed as a tribute to her partner band director Glen Adsit who passed away suddenly in 2024. Our march for the evening will be The Sinfonians by Clifton Williams.
Spring Concert
May 8, 2026 at 7:30pm
​Location: Xavier High School Fine Arts Theater​
1600 Prospect Ave, Appleton, WI
May 8 is V.E. (Victory in Europe) Day, the day Germany surrendered to the Allies bringing an end to the war in Europe. Our program will feature music either composed during the war or later in tribute to those who served. Suite Francaise by Darius Mihaud and Alfred Reed’s Russian Christmas Music were both composed in 1944 during the middle of the war. Red Tails by Ayatey Shabazz honors the African-American pilots of the Tuskegee Airmen fighter group in Europe, so it's only fitting we pair that with 8th Air Force in Europe Prologue and Main Theme by Maury Laws. Our marches for the evening were both composed during the war, Army of the Nile by Kenneth Alford and March of the Belgian Parachutists by Pierre Leemans.