- Production and presentation
of the UW Varsity Band's Spring Concert
is provided in part
by Friends of Wisconsin Public Television.
- Band: Step close.
[cheers and applause]
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["On Wisconsin"]
- Ladies and gentlemen,
the University of Wisconsin Varsity Band!
[cheers and applause]
[continuing "On, Wisconsin!"]
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["Hot Time"]
[cheers and applause]
- Mike Leckrone: Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
Can you hear the trombones okay, Lady?
[laughter]
This is the University of Wisconsin Band!
[cheers and applause]
This is the band that entertained you
as we won the Cotton Bowl championship not too long ago.
[cheers]
The news of my condition confused the band a little bit.
They really weren't sure...
They didn't think I had a heart to begin with.
[laughter]
But I want you to know I've been doing everything
that the doctors have been saying.
I've been on the rehab.
I'm doing everything they say.
Twenty minutes on the treadmill every day.
Twenty minutes on the stationary bike.
And 20 minutes with free weights, you know?
[women cheering "Whoo!"]
Doctors asked me, said,
"Do you think you could do 20 minutes with the dumbbells?"
I said, "I don't know.
I have to find out what the tubas have on their schedule."
[cheers and applause]
But I want you--
I almost chickened out of the...
I almost chickened out of the procedure.
I almost decided that I didn't want to do the surgery.
I said, "Oh, I'll take my chances."
I'll just see what happens.
And I went to the doctor and said,
"What do you think, Doc?
"I think I'll just take my chances.
What are my chances?"
And he looked at me and said,
"I think about... probably about 10."
And I said, "Ten what?
"Was that 10 years?
10 months?"
He said, "10-9-8-7..."
[cymbal clangs comically]
[laughter]
We're going to start with an old tune
that's been around for a long time.
- Band: Whoo!
- It's a tune by Bobby Sherwood called "The Elks' Parade."
- Band: Hey-up!
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[cheers and applause]
- Thank you, thank you.
One of the things we try to do early on in the program
is to offer, for your enjoyment, our tuba section.
[cheers]
One of the players I saw yesterday
and he said that he's very concerned.
He had a big exam coming up and he is worried about it
because it has a math exam.
I said, "Well, what are you worried about?"
He said, "Well, I think I've got a 40/40 chance of passing it.
[laughter]
- Band: Oh-ha! [whistling]
What's the difference
between Mike's heart and the tuba section?
Booh-hah!
[whistle]
We can keep a beat.
[laughter]
- For the time being...
[laughter]
We tease a lot back and forth, but I just got to report.
Our tuba section, last semester, had a grade-point average
of 3.75.
[cheers and applause]
Now that's the total, that's not the average.
[laughter]
Anyhow this is an old favorite tune.
This is a tune that the Harlem Globetrotters made famous,
called "Sweet Georgia Brown."
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[sustained low note]
[cheers and applause]
Our tuba section.
There was a garage band:
three brothers,
the Wilson brothers,
and a cousin named Mike Love,
who put together a band that has become
well-known all over the world
as one of the great rock 'n' roll bands of all time.
They call themselves The Beach Boys.
[applause]
And they did some great tunes over the years.
I know that in your mind,
you're thinking of all the ones you want us to play.
But we're going to play the ones we want to play.
[laughter]
It's my band. I'll play what I want to play.
[laughter]
Anyhow,
we've cleverly titled this,
and it features our trombone section.
We call this
our "Beach Boy Medley."
- Band: Oh...
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"Surfin' U.S.A."
* *
[trombones final notes of "Surfin' U.S.A."]
[cheers and applause]
["I Get Around"]
["Fun, Fun, Fun"]
["California Girls"]
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["Do It Again"]
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["Barbara Ann"]
- One of the great party songs of all time,
and you don't have to know many words to sing it.
About all you need is "Barbara Ann."
- Band: * Ba ba ba ba Barbara Ann
* Ba ba ba ba Barbara Ann
* Take my hand
* Please take my hand
* Barbara Ann
* You've got me rockin' and a-rollin'
* Rockin' and a-reelin' Barbara Ann
* Ba ba ba ba Barbara Ann
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["Sloop John B."]
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["Be True to Your School"]
[drum solo]
["In My Room"]
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[cheers and applause]
- The Beach Boys.
- Well, we've delighted in...
to have some great soloists on the concert.
And this year,
because of some circumstances that were involved,
we got kind of a late start getting everybody together,
but I called on an old friend,
a really old friend,
a guy who was with the band when he was here many years ago.
This is Grant Manhart,
who is a great, great trumpet player,
former band member.
- Band: SSSS.BOOM.AHHHH! ["Skyrocket Greeting" whistle]
- Grant, we-- - Band: Grant Manhart.
- Stepped on their line again.
Grant, I've known since he was a high school kid.
He was a soloist here with the band.
And we figured out, backstage,
this is his eighth time soloing with the band.
He should have it right this time.
- 'Til I get it right. - 'Til he gets it right.
But this is Grant Manhart.
He is going to do an old violin virtuoso solo by Monti
called "Czardas."
[romantic music in a minor key]
[trumpet solo]
[sustaining high note]
[cheers and applause]
[trumpet resumes in moderately slow tempo]
[lively and fast tempo]
[tempo slows slightly]
[bright, fast, and lively tempo]
[slower tempo]
[very fast tempo]
* *
[tempo slows, but remains brisk]
[cheers and applause]
- Grant Manhart.
[cheers and applause]
Now I've known Grant for a long time.
And I know that he has two twin sons
that are also great musicians.
These are his twin sons,
Logan and Chase.
These two guys are both seniors at Aberdeen Central High School
in South Dakota.
They're going to be music majors.
They're both very skilled musicians.
They're both members of the all-state band.
They've done great things.
And, again, I'm so pleased that--
I've known these two guys since they were about that tall.
And Grant brought 'em along on this particular trip
so we're going to present for them now,
Logan and Chase Manhart, along with Grant.
They're going to do a tune that Buddy Rich did,
along with the Tommy Dorsey Band,
called "Well, Git It."
[drumroll]
[trumpeting]
* *
[cheers and applause]
Chase and Logan Manhart,
Grant Manhart.
It's sort of the Partridge Family of music.
[cheers and applause]
The Manharts.
* *
* Hey hey hey baby
* I want to know if you'll be my girl
* Hey hey hey baby
* I want to know if you'll be my girl
[instrumental]
* Hey hey hey baby
* I want to know if you'll be my girl
* Hey hey hey baby
* I want to know if you'll be my girl
Band: One more time.
* Hey hey hey baby
* I want to know if you'll be my girl
[cheers and applause]
[drumming]
- Back in 1938,
the Carnegie Hall in New York City,
there was a legendary jazz concert
led by two legendary musicians:
Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman.
We're going to present to you
our recreation of that 1938 concert.
This is a tune called "Sing, Sing, Sing."
[cheers and applause]
[drumming]
[jazz with a driving beat]
* *
[drum solo]
[band resumes]
[drum solo]
[band resumes]
[energetic jazz]
* *
[drum solo]
[Grant Manhart trumpets a solo]
[band resumes]
* *
[Grant Manhart on trumpet]
[fireworks fizzle]
[cheers and applause]
[hand drumming]
[band performing " The Lion King Medley"]
[trumpet Fanfare]
[rhythmic percussion]
["Circle of Life"]
["I Just Can't Wait to be King"]
* *
["Be Prepared"]
* *
["Hakuna Matata"]
* *
[band chanting] - Hakuna - Matata
- Hakuna - Matata
[softly] - Hakuna - Matata
[very softly] - Hakuna - Matata
["Can You Feel the Love Tonight"]
["Circle of Life" reprise]
[hand drumming]
* *
[fireworks pop] [cheers and applause]
- What do you think, we've sat around long enough?
Don't you think it's time for a little Fifth Quarter action?
A little Fifth Quarter?
Okay, be ready to go.
Here we... "Tequila!"
- One two. One two three four.
["Tequila"]
* *
- C'mon, you've got to move a little bit!
Hands in the air.
[fireworks booming]
* Tequila
- Now, here's a tune that the student section
likes us to do all the time.
It's a tune called "Swingtown."
You gotta put your arms up in the air.
You know it. Oh, you're right.
You're way ahead of me.
Here we go: "Swingtown."
- One two. One two three four.
* *
[cheers and applause]
Okay, that's enough just sitting around.
Everybody on your feet.
Everybody up!
We're not going to leave this concert
without doing the "Chicken Dance."
[cheers and applause]
Everybody ready? Here we go.
We'll keep it slow.
One, two. One, two, ready, go.
["The Chicken Dance"]
* *
[repeated clapping to beat]
* *
[repeated clapping to beat]
* *
[repeated clapping to beat]
* *
[repeated clapping to beat]
* *
- Band: One, two, ready, set.
* *
[repeated clapping to beat]
* *
[playing low note]
["On Wisconsin"]
- One thing we're ready to do,
we're ready to break a record.
We're going to break a record.
Last night, last night we did it in--
- [crowd murmuring]
- Wait a minute, wait a minute.
I got a-- It says "Engineering Report.
No fast Chicken Dance."
- [crowd boos]
- [yelling] It says, "No fast chicken dance
on Saturday night."
- [crowd boos]
- Are you the engineer in charge of this?
[rip, rip]
- [crowd cheers]
- Band: One two. One two ready set.
[Band plays "The Chicken Dance" at a frenetic pace]
* *
["On Wisconsin"]
[playing low note]
- [yelling] That's a new record! We beat--
We broke the record, no question about it.
[cheers]
- Band: One two. One two ready set.
["You've Said It All"]
* *
* When you say
* Wis-con-sin
* You've Said It All!
[triumphant closing notes, fireworks boom]
[cheers and applause]
[" Fiddler on the Roof Medley"]
* *
["To Life"]
* *
["Wedding Dance"]
* *
["Sunrise, Sunset"]
* *
["Matchmaker, Matchmaker"]
- Daughter 1: * Matchmaker Matchmaker make me a match
* Find me a find
* Catch me a catch
- Daughter 2: * Matchmaker Matchmaker
* Look through you book
* And make me a perfect match
- Daughter 3: * Matchmaker Matchmaker
* I'll bring the veil
* You bring the groom
* Slender and pale
- Daughter 1: * Bring me a ring
* For I'm longing to be the envy of all I see
- All: * For Poppa make him a scholar
* For Momma make him rich as a king
* For me well
* I wouldn't holler
* If he were as handsome as anything
- Daughter 1: * Matchmaker Matchmaker
* Make me a match
- Daughter 2: * Find me a find
* Catch me a catch
-Daughter 3: * Night after night in the dark I'm alone
- All: * So find me a match of my own
* Yente see that he's gentle
* Remember you were also a bride
* It's not that I'm sentimental
* It's just that I'm terrified
- Daughter 3: * Matchmaker Matchmaker
* Plan me no plans
* I'm in no rush
* Maybe I've learned
- Daughters 1 & 2: * Playing with matches
* A girl can get burned
- All: * So bring me no ring
* Groom me no groom
* Find me no find
* Catch me no catch
* Unless he's a matchless match!
[cheers and applause]
["Matchmaker, Matchmaker"]
["If I Were a Rich Man"]
* *
["Sabbath Prayer"] - * Ah - [echoing] * Ah
["Bottle Dance"]
* *
["Fiddler solo"]
* *
[band resumes]
[drumroll]
* *
[cheers and applause]
[drumbeat]
["National Emblem March" by Edwin Eugene Bagley]
[patriotic music]
[fireworks pop rhythmically]
* *
[cheering]
* *
["On, Wisconsin"]
[cheers and applause]
* *
We close, as we close every one of these,
with a medley of songs of our great university.
Isn't this a great time to be a Badger?
[cheers and applause]
If you know the words, sing along!
If you're an alumnus, sing along!
If you don't now the words, and you are not alumnus,
eat your hearts out!
Next year, somersaults.
["Songs to Thee, Wisconsin"]
* Songs to thee, Wisconsin
* Ever let us sing
* Praise to alma mater
* Ever let us bring
* Queen of all the West
* College we love best
* Queen of all the West
* College we
* Love best
[drumroll]
["If You Want to be a Badger"]
* *
- Band: Ah... How do you like me now?
[tubas play very low bass notes]
["Varsity"]
* Var-sity!
* U-rah-rah!
* Wisconsin!
* Praise to thee we sing [echoing] * We sing
* Praise to thee, our Alma Mater
* U-rah-rah
* Wisconsin!
[drumroll]
[cheers and applause]
[Fanfare of trumpets]
Hey!
* Praise to thee, our Alma Mater
* *
* U-rah-rah!
* Wisconsin!
U-rah-rah! Wisconsin!
- Band: Hey... up!
[drumming]
["On, Wisconsin!"]
- Thank you so much for being with us tonight,
part of this 20th Anniversary
Kohl Center celebration.
We really appreciate your being here!
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["On, Wisconsin!"]
* *
We never say, "Goodbye,"
but then again, tonight, in a way, we do.
Because we've got a group of seniors here
who will be performing their last time on this stage.
And I can't be more proud of them.
Seniors, would you please stand?
[cheers and applause]
What they have meant
to the University of Wisconsin this year
and to me,
cannot be expressed in words.
But we're going to see you soon.
We may see you back here in the Kohl Center
19th, 20th, and 21st next year, when we do this again.
[cheers and applause]
Or we may see you out in the Kohl Center
for basketball and hockey.
Or maybe out in Camp Randall.
I've been there several times,
and I'd like to see you all one more time in Pasadena.
[cheers and applause]
But wherever it is, we'll see you real soon
and "On, Wisconsin!"
Three, four!
["On, Wisconsin!"]
[cheers and applause]