Program Notes

Fanfare for a Festive Day

Roger Cichy, composer

Fanfare for a Festive Day is a short fanfare for concert band composed by Roger Cichy based largely on the four opening pitches: G, C, D, and F, played in ascending order. Roger Cichy is a freelance composer and arranger who has written more than 200 compositions and arrangements for all levels of bands and orchestras. The Concord Band has selected Mr. Cichy to compose a major new work to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Band. It is fitting that we begin this two-year celebration with a work by Roger Cichy and end the celebration in March of 2009 with the world premier of his newest work composed for the Concord Band.

—WGM

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