June 26 2025  Dixon IL Dixon Municipal Band - video Dailymotion

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June 26 2025 Dixon, IL  Dixon Municipal Band Plays at the Band Shell at Page Park on the River Front near the Dixon High School

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00:00The Dixon Municipal Band is primarily funded by the City of Dixon, but we are

00:21not able to operate without the generous financial contributions of our patrons

00:24and sponsors who are listed on the back of your program. Please thank these

00:28folks as you see them. Our platinum, gold, and silver sponsors are also acknowledged

00:33on the banner located up here by the band shell. If you are interested in helping to

00:37help fund the Dixon Municipal Band, there's a donation drum and patron

00:42sponsorship forms at Melissa's Table there with the programs and with the free

00:47raffle tickets. As I said earlier, there will be four raffle drawings tonight and

00:53to add to my earlier announcement, in addition to Royal Scoop's really good

00:59ice cream and main squeezes lemonade, energy drinks, and dirty sodas. Has anybody

01:05figured that out yet? If somebody figures that out, let me know. We also have with

01:10us tonight, back from last year, Christine's Kitchen. She's over there by Royal Scoop and

01:16she has brownies, lemon bars, and cookies all freshly baked. That's some really good

01:24stuff. We have the full smorgasbord for you tonight. Nobody leaves here hungry tonight.

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02:42Good evening and welcome back to the Page Park Band Show for the Dixon Municipal Band's Sounds of Summer 2025.

02:55The Dixon Municipal Band is under the direction of John James and is managed by Kathy James.

03:01Your announcer is Chris Hammett.

03:03And now, please rise and sing along as we play our national anthem.

03:12And now, please rise and sing along as we play our national anthem.

03:42And now, please rise and sing along as we play our national anthem.

04:12Thank you all for joining us on a steamy night here in Dixon, Illinois, along the Rock River.

04:31We are glad you're here enjoying this wonderful summer tradition.

04:35On the night of April 18th, 1775, Paul Revere rode out of Boston to alert the Minutemen

04:42in the province of Massachusetts Bay to the approach of British Army troops prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord.

04:50These men, who were ready to defend their homes in just a moment's notice,

04:54are the namesake of today's Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles.

04:58Development of the Minuteman missile began in the mid-1950s when basic research indicated

05:03that a solid-fuel rocket could stand ready to launch for long periods of time,

05:08in contrast to liquid-fueled rockets that required fueling immediately prior to launch

05:12and so took much longer to get ready.

05:15It is this push-button, land-based, solid-fueled mainstay of the United States nuclear arsenal

05:21that was the source of inspiration for Robert Pearson's first March for Symphony band,

05:26the Minuteman March.

05:28I think it's true.

05:34This is such a great message.

10:28Here is Alfred Reeds, The Music Makers.

14:46This piece.

15:15The smallest is the E-flat clarinet, and it's played by Don Burnett.

15:23Don, you want to show them what that sounds like?

15:30Very nice. Thank you.

15:31All right.

15:33The next is the B-flat clarinet, which is played by all these people next to me.

15:37All of you with those clarinets, just regular B-flats.

15:39Hold them up so everybody can see where you're at.

15:41Look at all these guys.

15:42All these clarinets over here.

15:42That's a B-flat clarinet.

15:43And Kathy James is going to show us what that sounds like.

15:48What's that sound like, Kathy?

15:49I don't know.

16:01Nice.

16:04And then the third one we have in the band is a bass clarinet,

16:07and Nancy Burnett back here has that.

16:10Show them what that thing sounds like, Nancy.

16:12Yeah, yeah, yeah.

16:24Get on down there.

16:25I like it.

16:26All right, so this piece is designed to show off these clarinets,

16:29which started with a Shalema, like back in the early 1700s,

16:34and it was from Germany, and basically it's just a recorder.

16:38You all played recorder in grade school, right?

16:39Oh, I'm getting a bunch of grief from the clarinets.

16:43Okay, it's a recorder with a reed.

16:45So it's a little bit more.

16:46What's that sound like, Kathy?

16:48What's that ancient Shalema sound like?

16:54All right, so that's the ancestor of all these clarinets.

16:58Kind of cool.

17:00All right, this next piece features Kathy James.

17:03You all know her and love her.

17:04She is our band manager.

17:05She's been in this band.

17:08No, she's been playing clarinet for 56 years.

17:12She's also in the Rock River Jazz Band and Saxophonic Sounds.

17:16Her day job is as a nurse, which she's been doing for 33 years.

17:21And the rest of us are going to get out of the way

17:23and let the clarinets and Kathy show off a little bit for you

17:26with Russell Ward's Clarinet Escapade.

17:30I'll turn off my mic and we'll get hers on.

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53:41We'll see you all next Friday up at the Courthouse lawn.

53:43Please drive home safely.

53:49I'm Ed Pillar, and you're watching EdPillar.com.

53:54I'm Ed Pillar, and you're watching Ed Pillar.

June 26 2025 Dixon IL Dixon Municipal Band

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