Rockford Area Horn Club

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Past Performances


Chautauqua Days at Midway Village
SATURDAY, June 19th, 2010 
WHERE: The Chapel 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM 
6799 Guilford Rd, 
Rockford IL, 61107 
 
Thanks to Mary Jane White, Nancy Johnsen, Karin Wilcox, and Amy Nyman for playing at Midway Village Saturday afternoon for their 1900 Chatacqua week-end. The Songs Lincoln Loved were played as well as "Yankee Doodle," "In the Evening by the Moonlight," and several Anton Wunderer quartets, both marches and polkas!

 
MorningStar Village
SUNDAY, MAY 16th, 2010 at 3:00 PM 
 
MorningStar Village 
1160 N. Mulford 
Rockford, IL, 61107 

Midway Village 

FRIDAY, MAY 7th, 2010 
 
WHERE: The Gazebo from 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM 
Midway Village 
6799 Gulford Rd, 
Rockford IL, 61107 
   
  We  played in 15 minute segments for grade school kids' field trips as part of their Civil War Days study. Music was Lincoln Songs (Civil War era). 



  Harmony Singing Society Friday Nite Supper

Ralph Pullin, Jr. thanks Mary Jane White and Amy Nyman for joining him at the Harmony Singing Society Friday Nite Supper on January 29th, 2010.

We played "Landsighting" as a Norwegian tribute. Several other songs were also performed, notably "Morning Has Broken" and "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen."

In turn, Amy and Mary Jane thanked Ralph for a delicious Swiss steak dinner!



ST. BERNADETTE'S (ST. VINCENT DEPAUL) 
 
WEDNESDAY    December 23rd 2009    St. Bernadette's  (St. Vincent DePaul)  
                              5:30-6:30 PM (during dinner) 
                            Parish Center: 2300 Bell Ave, Rockford, IL  

 West side of Rockford Hospital

Special thanks to Mary Jane White, Scott Whitman, and Mary Peterson for playing at the Vincent DePaul supper on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009!

 


                              
ROCKFORD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 
 
THURSDAY  December  17th 2009      
2400 N. Rockton Ave, 61103 
       11:30 - 1:00 in the cafeteria 



LUCIA FEST

SATURDAY     December 12th 2009 

11:00 - Noon  

at First Lutheran

225 S. 3rd St, Rockford



Belvidere Community Christmas Tree Walk 

Friday December 4th 2009 at 7pm

at the

Belvidere Community Center

Belvidere Chamber of Commerce

130 S State St # 300
Belvidere, IL 61008


Sunday, November 25th, 2009

at the 

Zion Lutheran Church 

Thanks to Sue Sweeney, Ralph Pullin, Jr., Amy Nyman, Nancy Johnsen, and Sue Huhta for playing at Zion Lutheran Church on Sunday, November 25th.

 "The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God" by Beethoven was the prelude; the Pachelbel Canon was performed during communion distribution; and "Rondeau" by Jean Joseph Mouret and "Ballet," an anonymous Renaissance piece were the postlude.


 
 
Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 3:00 PM  
at the 
Bethlehem Lutheran Church  
1915 N. 1st Street 
Dekalb, IL 60115 
 
This was an Artist Series Music Recital featuring Jim Nersteheimer, organ 
and The Rockford Area Horn Club. 
 
 
 
 
A big THANK YOU to Dave Lehman who directed the double choir pieces for us and to the horn players: Bonnie Anderson, Rosie Eden, Sue Huhta, Nancy Johnsen, Amy Nyman, Mary Peterson, Ralph Pullin, Jr., Jeffrey Wall , and Mary Jane White. 

The performance included:  "Simple Gifts/Lord of the Dance," a traditional selection; "Ballet," an anonymous Renaissance piece; and "Rondo de Tucson," by Henslee.

Additionally, Bonnie Anderson and Nancy Johnsen played "Trumpet Tune" from the "Water Music Suite in D Major" by Handel with Jim Nerstheimer, the organist at Bethlehem Lutheran Church.


 

Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 10:30

at the

First Lutheran Church 
225 S 3rd Street 
Rockford, IL 61104-2035 
 

 
   

A big THANK YOU to Bonnie Anderson, Rosie Eden, Sue Huhta, Nancy Johnsen, Amy Nyman, Mary Peterson, Ralph Pullin, Jr., Sue Sweeney, Sarah Thurber-Fiorenza, Jeff Wall, Mary Jane White, and Karin Wilcox for their performance on the 25th! We would also like the thank Greg Gyllsdorf for directing us that day.

The performance included: "Ein Feste Burg" by Samuel Scheidt; a Giovanni Gabrieli canzon titled titled "Canzone Per Sonor Primi Toni." [both of these are eight-part double choir selections]; "Salvation Is Created," a vocal eight-part piece by a Russian orthodox composer Tchesnokov; and a quartet version of Jean Joseph Mouret's "Rondeau."

 

 

Sunday September 27th, 2009 9:30 AM

at

 Embury United Methodist Church
515 S Galena Ave
Freeport, IL 61032-5599

Embury United Methodist gig on September 27, 2009

 From left to right:  Amy Nyman, Bonnie Anderson, Nancy Johnsen, Sue Huhta and Jeff Wall.

A big THANK YOU to Bonnie Anderson, Sue Huhta, Nancy Johnsen, Amy Nyman, and Jeff Wall for their performance on the 27th.

 

The perfomance included: "Ballet," a 16th to 17th century Renaissance piece for the prelude, special music Beethoven's "The Heaven's Are Telling the Glory of God," offertory "What Wondrous Love," and postlude "Rondeau" by Jean Joseph Mouret and "Simple Gifts/Lord of the Dance."