The Star-Spangled Banner
O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Alma Mater
To our noble Alma Mater’s name,
We, her children, sing a joyful lay,
And to her a new allegiance pledge,
That lives beyond a day.
Refrain:
Sing, O sing, our Alma Mater’s praise,
Hail, O hail, her colors’ gleaming hue!
Give to her our homage and our love,
And to her name be true.
Graduation Brass Ensemble
The Graduation Brass Ensemble includes members of the brass faculty and the Legacy Brass Quintet , the brass quintet for honors students. This ensemble is open to any IUP music major in the brass area, with membership determined by performance audition. Funding for this ensemble was made possible through a gift from Jim and Jamie Self. A 1965 IUP graduate, Jim Self was a first-call tuba player in Los Angeles for more than 30 years. He is known for playing the “Voice of the Mother Ship” in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind . He has performed for more than a thousand movie and television soundtracks in his career and has served as principal tuba in many of the top professional orchestras in and around Los Angeles. The Legacy Brass Quintet performs advanced quintet repertoire and receives specialized coaching from the IUP brass faculty.
Horn: Dennis Emert*, David Earnest*
Trombone: Joshua Gerson, Conner Antonio
Tuba: Zach Collins‡, Jessie Reed
† emeritus faculty member
‡ faculty member
IUP Symphony Band
Flute: Emma Stonecypher, Anna Beckett, Elizabeth Carey, Emilie Bohn, Emma Stoufflet
Oboe: Zakk Boyer
Clarinet: Kylie Diem, Ana Enfusse, Ben Steffish, Tiffany Bloom, Jay Gamble (bass)
Alto Saxophone: Katrina Bennett, Michael Cantrell, Jonathan Fochtman
Tenor Saxophone: Emily Neiswonger, Allyson Noer
Bari Saxophone: Addison Benner
French Horn: Sadie Halper, Allana Karoscik
Trumpet: David Earnest, Ellie Welch, Landon Bacon
Trombone: Emily Oakes, Damien Porter, Landon Weeks (bass)
Euphonium: Nathan Vinson, Miguel Torres II
Tuba: Gabe Thompson, Charles Blake, Anthony Buzzie
Percussion: Jacob Lott, Dylan Geibel, Logan Smyth, Bobbie Allison
IUP Wind Ensemble
Flute: Danielle Dierksen, Sasha Wesolowski, Emily Donaldson, Allison Becker
Oboe: Zakk Boyer, Annaleigh Spade
Clarinet: Madison Succheralli, Alexander Johnson, Lauren Dick, Anastasia Sidor, Kylie Diem, Katherine Boone, Ana Enfusse
Saxophone: Bailey Horn, Dunovan Cook, Ethan Reiter, Addison Benner
Trumpet: Landon Bacon, Shayla Bower, Elizabeth Welch, Cloud Scott, Madalyn Rhodes
Horn: David Earnest, Kristina Andrei, Alanna Heck, Clarissa Marshall
Trombone: Connor Antonio, Joshua Gerson, Nicholas Ryan, Carol McHenry
Euphonium: Alistair Horton
Tuba: Jessica Reed, Hayden Cooper
Percussion: Christian Kolaczynski, Benjamin Shal, Anthony Hipkins, Eden Gutierrez, Sam Egan