The Missouri City Pops - Community Band

07/18/2021

When your beloved pets become masterpieces of music…

When your beloved pets become masterpieces of music…

06/23/2021

Learned something new today 🎺

The Karnofsky Jewish family, who immigrated to the United States from Lithuania, employed a 7-year-old boy and adopted (so to speak) him into their home. He was originally given homework to get food because he was a starving kid. He remained under the Jewish families employ, until he was 12

Karnofsky gave him money to buy his first instrument, which was a common instrument in Jewish families. They really admired his musical talent.

Later, when he became a professional musician and composer, he used these Jewish melodies when composing!

This little black boy grew up and wrote a book about this Jewish family who adopted him in 1907. And he spoke proudly to Yiddish.

In memory of this family and for the rest of his life, he carried the Star of David and said that in this family he had learned to ′ ′ live real life and determination ”.

This little boy was called Louis Armstrong

06/09/2021

This explains a lot 🎼 🎶

This explains a lot 🎼 🎶

06/08/2021

We’re Baaaaack!

05/31/2021

Taps Across America - Memorial Day 2021

This was our first performance since the pandemic put band rehearsals on hold. If you played Taps to honor the fallen today and took video, please add it in the comments 🎺 See you next week at band practice!

05/29/2021

How to participate in Taps Across America with CBS News

For all you buglers out there 🎼 🎶 🎺 🇺🇸

05/13/2021

Timeline Photos

05/08/2021

02/07/2021

USAF Band of the West

USAF Band of the West

Tuba players, unite! This recording of "Fantasia on the Dargason" by Gustav Holst involved Air Force tuba players from across the world and commemorated the retirement of Chief Master Sergeant Michael Goetz, a tuba player who served for 30 years in the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force.
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SSgt Lee Jarzembak, USAFE Band
SSgt Justis MacKenzie, USAF Band of the West
A1C Colby Parker, United States Air Force Academy Band
A1C Andrew Payton, USAF Band of the West
A1C Jacob Moore, USAF Band of the Golden West
A1C Brian Kemble, USAF Band of the Golden West
SrA Tyler Tolles (percussion), USAF Band of the Golden West
SrA Mike Roe (percussion), USAF Band of the Golden West
Arranged by SSgt Justis MacKenzie
Audio and Video Production by A1C Brian Kemble

02/06/2021

Classic FM

Classic FM

Orchestral masterpieces, but played on 100% homemade instruments... 🎻🍳🍷

(📹 ZIC ZAZOU)

02/05/2021

Classic FM

Proper names for musical instruments:

01/27/2021

01/11/2021

Rest In Peace, Glenda 🎶❤️

01/06/2021

A real clef-hanger story 🎼

01/01/2021

Happy New Year 2021! This year we WILL be back together, as soon as it’s safe to do so. We have NOT forgot “auld” acquaintances, nor auld lang syne. Remembering how well the accordion went over, Kristi promises to leave the harmonium at home.

12/29/2020

Yes, we played it before Pandemic, no it isn’t Mozart 😆

12/24/2020

Stray Cat Steals The Show During A Performance By The Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra

Does anyone remember the cat with the necrotic tail that came to our rehearsal a few years ago? We (The Normans) still have her. Her name is “Coda Non Troppo.” (Tail, not much) or Coda, for short. This is what happens when you are the last ones to leave rehearsal. 🎼 🐈 🎶

Rather than running away, it climbed onto the director's podium!

12/19/2020

Because nothing says Christmas like a saxophone quartet.🎷🎶🌲

12/14/2020

Pennsylvania teen, 15, captures 2020 in catchy original holiday song

😀🎄❤️🎶🎁 We will be together again!

Wallis Schriver's debut music video for "Lonely Christmas" has been shared by Ellen DeGeneres and received over 250,000 views in less than two weeks.

12/12/2020

As the holiday season of 1938 came to Chicago, Bob May wasn’t feeling much comfort or joy. A 34-year-old ad writer for Montgomery Ward, May was exhausted and nearly broke. His wife, Evelyn, was bedridden, on the losing end of a two-year battle with cancer. This left Bob to look after their four-year old-daughter, Barbara.

One night, Barbara asked her father, “Why isn’t my mommy like everybody else’s mommy?” As he struggled to answer his daughter’s question, Bob remembered the pain of his own childhood. A small, sickly boy, he was constantly picked on and called names. But he wanted to give his daughter hope, and show her that being different was nothing to be ashamed of. More than that, he wanted her to know that he loved her and would always take care of her. So he began to spin a tale about a reindeer with a bright red nose who found a special place on Santa’s team. Barbara loved the story so much that she made her father tell it every night before bedtime. As he did, it grew more elaborate. Because he couldn’t afford to buy his daughter a gift for Christmas, Bob decided to turn the story into a homemade picture book.

In early December, Bob’s wife died. Though he was heartbroken, he kept working on the book for his daughter. A few days before Christmas, he reluctantly attended a company party at Montgomery Ward. His co-workers encouraged him to share the story he’d written. After he read it, there was a standing ovation. Everyone wanted copies of their own. Montgomery Ward bought the rights to the book from their debt-ridden employee. Over the next six years, at Christmas, they gave away six million copies of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to shoppers. Every major publishing house in the country was making offers to obtain the book. In an incredible display of good will, the head of the department store returned all rights to Bob May. Four years later, Rudolph had made him into a millionaire.

Now remarried with a growing family, May felt blessed by his good fortune. But there was more to come. His brother-in-law, a successful songwriter named Johnny Marks, set the uplifting story to music. The song was pitched to artists from Bing Crosby on down. They all passed. Finally, Marks approached Gene Autry. The cowboy star had scored a holiday hit with “Here Comes Santa Claus” a few years before. Like the others, Autry wasn’t impressed with the song about the misfit reindeer. Marks begged him to give it a second listen. Autry played it for his wife, Ina. She was so touched by the line “They wouldn’t let poor Rudolph play in any reindeer games” that she insisted her husband record the tune.

Within a few years, it had become the second best-selling Christmas song ever, right behind “White Christmas.” Since then, Rudolph has come to life in TV specials, cartoons, movies, toys, games, coloring books, greeting cards and even a Ringling Bros. circus act. The little red-nosed reindeer dreamed up by Bob May and immortalized in song by Johnny Marks has come to symbolize Christmas as much as Santa Claus, evergreen trees and presents. As the last line of the song says, “He’ll go down in history.”

12/08/2020

12/03/2020

Classic FM

Classic FM

Jingle Bells, but played in a minor key 😢

(📹 Toms Mucenieks)

11/12/2020

Mel Robbins

Mel Robbins

She’s freaking 5 years old!!! I can’t even twirl a baton 😂 I’m just blown away by this natural talent at such a young age, aren’t you?! 🥁

11/12/2020

Classic FM

The struggle is real.

😂 (via Jason Sulliman)

10/16/2020

School Music Classes Change Their Tune In Coronavirus Overhaul

https://www.nhpr.org/post/school-music-classes-change-their-tune-coronavirus-overhaul

Classrooms in New Hampshire have changed dramatically to reopen safely in the pandemic, and some of the biggest changes are in music class. Gone are the

09/21/2020

Well, there’s this 😳

Is it a duck? Is it a goose? Is it a platypus? 🦆❤️ 🦆 Quack...we heard you loud and clear! 🦆❤️🦆

👉 It's our NEW Flute Instrument cover featuring a double-layered elongated flute mask specially designed not to crowd the instrument and maximize normalcy of play.

CONTINUE TO PERFORM SAFELY: https://www.mccormicksnet.com/Flute-Cover-p/3070017.htm

#woodwinds #marchingband #band #winds #wgi #dci #boa #iwantaseason #musician #flute #performingarts #bandcamp #teachers #banddirector #musiceducation #covid #musicteacher #symphony

08/30/2020

Classic FM

Classic FM

This inspiring musician plays FIVE different kinds of flute ❤️

(via Claire Chase at London's Southbank Centre)

08/20/2020

Classic FM

Musicians with too much time of their hands

JS Bach's Art of Fugue, played on beer bottles.

(via Beanzo / Storyful)

08/19/2020

Classic FM

Please share stories, photos or video of your music loving (or hating!) pet in the comments! 🐈 🎶 🐕 🎷

Pets deserve to be serenaded too. 😻

08/16/2020

Classic FM

Some of us typed many a term paper on this instrument. Since the pandemic halted our rehearsals, my embouchure has gone to seed. I might take up this instrument again, but where to find one? They are quite rare now!

For anyone who needs a smile today...

This is Leroy Anderson's 'The Typewriter' for orchestra, complete with all the familiar 'dings' and clitter-clattering of a typewriter. The soloist here is Alfredo Anaya, with conductor Miguel Roa. Credit to Voces Para la Paz and Músicos solidarios.

08/06/2020

Can singing and wind instruments be made safe during coronavirus? Colorado researchers are trying to find out.

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__coloradosun.com_2020_07_30_singing-2Dband-2Dinstruments-2Dcoronavirus-2Dcu-2Dcsu_&d=DwMFAg&c=kn4_INW_mBCDHV_xJEVJkg&r=-vtKiXIfaY1saz-bm1okqTuYJu6obXT0SFVPODoVTwE&m=h3ErGX3QxWJ4r8C-X0PlXVPKhES90-cLFtJEpftpdqs&s=E2MrAKbsYDoyu38v6mHpteCuYAGpUTYxg-7MHk4in5M&e=

How playing tubas and clarinets inside canvas bags is helping figure out ways musicians, singers, actors and their audiences can stay safe during pandemic performances.

07/19/2020

Do orchestras put audiences at risk of COVID-19?

https://preview.houstonchronicle.com/classical/do-orchestras-put-audiences-at-risk-of-covid-19-15396998

In any other time, under any other circumstance, the question would seem minor and technical. But today it has taken on both a global significance and pressing deadline: What happens…

07/12/2020

Sad news from the Sugar Land Methodist Church.
Brian played 1st Flute in The Missouri City Pops and also conducted during summer vacation. He lost his battle with COVID-19.

“It is with a sad and heavy heart that I inform you of the passing of our great friend, colleague and organist, Brian Granquist early this morning.

Brian was a true inspiration to so many, not only through his musical talent and leadership, but also in his warm relationships and friendships. His sense of humor could captivate an entire room and his true joy found in playing music, worshiping the Lord and enjoying the company of others touched us all.
He will be missed but take comfort that he knew he was surrounded by the prayers of his church family who loved him dearly and expressed that throughout the years. I will let you know as plans develop concerning any future memorial services.

Please hold each other up in prayer, especially his closest friends who have been providing care these past few weeks.”

06/15/2020

05/31/2020

Royal Academy of Music

Royal Academy of Music

Happy Friday! The RAM Buglers have come together to create this fantastic virtual performance - we hope it lifts your spirits as much as it did ours #RAMplaysON ♫

Reposted from Academy student Will Thomas - https://bit.ly/2Vh7YbP