Program: The show featured excerpts from Benjamin Britton's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Nancy Galbraith's Danza de los Duendes, and Vincent Persechetti's Symphony for Band

Band Directors: Greg Hames, Joshua Blankenship, Stephen Lisko
Drum Line Instructor: Eric Gibbons
Color Guard Instructor: Sam Woodfield
Drum Majors: Sarah Hyndman (Head), Stephanie White, Max Atkinson, David Levin

Trivia: The chairs on the field were supposed to represent chairs in a orchestra on a stage.
The MMB placed 5th at Area C Finals. (tie-breaker)

Program: The show featured excerpts from Prokofiev's Ivan the Terrible and Alexander Nevsky

Band Directors: Greg Hames, Joshua Blankenship, Stephen Lisko
Drum Line Instructor: Andy Pruyn
Color Guard Instructor: Sam Woodfield
Drum Majors: Sarah Hyndman (Head), Stephanie White, Max Atkinson, David Levin

Trivia: New Uniforms! Finally a cooler summer uniform, plus the red concert jackets looked great on the field.

Program: The 2007 show began with the Dies Irae from Verdi's Requiem, included excerpts from the Chairman Dances, Ave Maria, and finished with the Finale from Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Band Directors: Greg Hames, Joshua Blankenship, Stephen Lisko
Drum Line Instructor: Andy Pruyn
Color Guard Instructor: Renee Butts
Drum Majors: Clint Kimmel (Head), Andrew Day, Sarah Hyndman, Stephanie White

Trivia: The opening of this show was so powerful that on the tape of the Highland Park performance, the people on the Highland Park side can be seen turning around to look at the band, then sitting down to enjoy the performance. The Mighty Mustang Band got a standing ovation from Highland Park!

Program: The show featured the music of Key Poulan - Chronometry.

Band Directors:Greg Hames, Joshua Blankenship, Woodrow Smith
Drum Line Instructor:Jeremy Noyes
Color Guard Instructor: Renee Butts
Drum Majors: Merrick Yamada (Head), Megan Bommarito, Clint Kimmel

Program: The show featured music from Petroushka, plus Sing Sang Sung, Bamboo, Dancer in the Dark.

Band Directors:Greg Hames, Doug Henderson, Woodrow Smith
Drum Line Instructor:Keith Stevens
Color Guard Instructor:Renee Butts
Drum Majors:Steven Loh (Head), Garrett Nauschutz, Sarah Jenevein

Program: The show featured music from Grantham and Tichelli, including Southern Harmony, Vesuvius, Simple Gifts, and Blue Shades.

Band Directors: Greg Hames, Doug Henderson, Woodrow Smith
Drum Line Instructor:keith Stevens
Color Guard Instructor:Renee Butts
Drum Majors: Angela Stevenson (Head), Brian Hoffman, Steven Loh

Program: The show's music included Shadow Vision, The Vanishing Race, An Offer to the Sun, and Dancing to Restore

Band Directors: Greg Hames, Mark Nichols, Doug Henderson
Drum Line Instructor:Keith Stevens
Color Guard Instructors:Tonia Fell, Greg Humphries
Drum Majors:James Aton (Head), Jay Schweikert, James Kimmel

Program: The show included CityScapes, plus music from Leonard Bernstein, including Times Square and On the Waterfront

Band Directors: Greg Hames, Jeff Bridges, Mark Nichols
Drum Line Instructor:Andrew Porter
Color Guard Instructors:Tonia Fell, Greg Humphries
Drum Majors: James Aton (Head), Paul Levine, and Jay Schweikert

Program: The 2001 show featured excerpts from La Fiesta Mexican by H. Owen Reed

Band Directors: Peter Warshaw, Jeff Bridges, Mark Nichols
Drum Line Instructor:Andrew Porter
Color Guard Instructors:Tonia Fell, Greg Humphries
Drum Majors:Kristen Johnson (Head), Kim Wratislaw, Jamie Wright, Anna Lee

Trivia:  Listen carefully during the Call to Mass (solo by Megan Novick) and you can hear the entire band singing "Amen". Beautiful!

Program: The 2000 show featured musical excerpts from George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

Band Directors: Peter J. Warshaw, Sara Mamminga, Jeff Bridges
Drum Line Instructor: John Gurke
Color Guard Instructor: Andy Schlesinger
Drum Majors: Leslie McIlroy (Head), Kristen Johnson, and Kim Wratislaw (Junior)

Trivia: The 'Grand Piano' was a great success and mystified many people in the audience during the season. It was actually an electric piano built into a very light-weight plywood frame, built it looked real and appeared to be really heavy!

Program: Excerpts from Aaron Copland's Third Symphony.

Band Directors: Peter J. Warshaw, Lynne Jackson, Jeff Bridges
Drumline Instructor: John Gurke
Colorguard Instructor: Andy Schlesinger
Drum Majors: Jared Vela (Head), John Thomas, Leslie McIlroy

Program: This 2000 show was musical excerpts from Carmina Burana, a contemporary setting of medieval monastic music. This exciting and vibrant piece by Carl Orff has been made popular by its use in many films, including Excalibur. The twenty-five movements tell varied stories which focus on the capricious whims of the force we today sometimes refer to as Lady Luck. The MMB's version included nine different movements from the original, comprising four large sections.

Band Directors: Peter J. Warshaw, Lynne Jackson, Jeff Bridges
Drum Line Instructor: John Gurke
Color Guard Instructor: Randy Phillips
Drum Majors: Sarah Lanford (Head), Karen Booker, Jared Vela

Program: Spanish Dances, including

• Sensemaya -- Revueltas
• Old Lady's Tango from Candide by Bernstein
• Wheat Dance and Danza Final from Estancia by Ginastera

Band Directors: Peter J. Warshaw, Lynne Jackson, Jeff Bridges
Drum Line Instructor: Drew Lang
Color Guard Instructor: Jason Hightower
Drum Majors: Lauren Johnson (Head), Danny Kupersztoch, Sarah Lanford

Program: Civil War Portrait, featuring Civil War songs, narration, and Lincoln Portrait -- Aaron Copland

Band Directors: Peter J. Warshaw, Lynne Jackson, Jeff Bridges
Drum Line Instructor: Drew Lang
Color Guard Instructor: Jason Hightower
Drum Majors: Mark Waterston, Lee Griffin, Lauren Johnson

Trivia: From a Duncanville band parent:

By the by, I really enjoyed the JJPearce show this year, even though I was
sure I would not when I noted that it was Lincoln Portrait and I've become
tired of that piece during concert season but they did an absolutely
wonderful job with it.  The show was very very moving and I enjoyed it
tremendously.  
Thanks again & good luck to you in all you strive for. . . .

Program: Selections from the musical West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein

Band Directors: Peter J. Warshaw, Lynne Jackson, Jeff Bridges
Drumline Instructor: Drew Lang
Drum Majors: Andrew D'Armond, Brooke Hampshire, Mark Waterston

Program: Excerpts from the ballet Romeo and Juliet by Serge Prokofiev

Band Directors:Peter J. Warshaw, Lynne Jackson, Jeff Bridges
Drumline Instructor: Drew Lang
Color Guard Instructor: Sadie Wallace
Drum Majors: Casey Keister, Chris Skinner, Andrew D'Armond

Trivia:(From an 1994 MMB Member) The 1994 show was arguably one of the best shows the Mighty Mustang Band has ever put on. The guard did this really cool compression in the middle of the field. When they were compressed all the way, the two brass blocks dissolved into free form, and everybody went on to their next spots out of step while playing this really cool melody. The marching and music fit so well here! Then the when the trumpets start blazing the melody way up high, everybody starts in small blocks that rotate and mesh with each other, becoming bigger rotating blocks until we all end up in a huge trapezoid in the middle, where we proceed to wow the heck out of the audience while not sounding offensive. Gives me chills every time I think about it.

Program: Excerpts from Carmen -- Bizet

Band Directors: Peter J. Warshaw, Lynne Jackson, Gary Sharp
Drumline Instructor: Dr. Mike Kingan
Drum Majors: Mandy Mittelstet, Melanie Flake, Scott Charbonneau, Casey Keister

Trivia: (From a 1993 MMB member) Oh man, memory fails, but I'm pretty sure we kicked some rear at the Plano East Marching Contest. All you marchers from this year: remember the exploding electrical thing? I thought a nuclear bomb went off! Seriously, we played really well. This show was a lot of fun!

Program: The Planets -- Gustav Holst

• Venus
• Mars
• Jupiter
• Neptune

Band Directors: Matthew McInturf, Peter Warshaw, Lynne Jackson
Drumline Instructor: Mike Kingan
Drum Majors: Shay Ometz, Jon Penn, Beth Mayoff, Mandy Mittlestet

Program: Appalachian Spring -- Aaron Copland

Band Directors:Matthew McInturf, Peter Warshaw, Lynne Jackson
Drum Majors: Cindy Braly, Mike Flake, John Leffingwell, Shay Ometz

Program: Excerpts from Carmen -- Bizet

Band Directors:Matthew McInturf, Peter Warshaw, Lynne Jackson
Drum Majors: Heather Clemens (Head), Travis Gulbis, Susan Stripling

Program: Pictures at an Exhibition -- Modest Musorgsky

Band Directors: Matthew McInturf, Peter Warshaw, Lynne Jackson
Drum Majors: Gretchen Roberts (Head), Janet Antich, Heather Clemens

Trivia: The Mighty Mustang Band placed 4th at the All-State contest in 1989!

Program: All Russian Show

• Scythian Suite -- Serge Prokofiev
• Lt. Kije -- Serge Prokofiev
• Firebird Suite -- Igor Stravinsky

Band Directors: Matthew McInturf, Peter Warshaw, Lynne Jackson
Drum Majors: Grace Ong (Head), Emily Hirsh, Gretchen Roberts

Program: A collection of sound spectaculars -

• Crown Imperial March -- Walton (arr. Helm)
• Rumble Percussion Feature -- arranged Wooten
• Egyptian Danza
• Ayre for Eventide
• Finale from Symphony #2 -- Malcolm Arnold

Band Directors: Matthew McInturf, Peter Warshaw, Lynne Jackson
Drum Majors: Brian Anderson (Head), Ronna Dillinger, and Marni Osofsky

Trivia: The Mighty Mustang Band placed 4th at the All-State contest in 1987!

Program:

• Jupiter from The Planets -- Gustav Holst
• La Fiesta
• Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral -- Richard Wagner

Band Directors: Tom Bennett, Matthew McInturf, Peter Warshaw, Lynne Jackson
Drum Majors: Kathleen Gray (Head), Denise Dudzinski, Bob Gump, Brian Anderson

Program:

• Children of Sanchez
• Feierlicher Einzug -- Richard Strauss

Band Directors: Tom Bennett, Matthew McInturf, Peter Warshaw
Drum Majors: Heidi Proctor (Head), Kathleen Gray, Denise Dudzinski

Program:

• March from Folk Song Suite -- R. Vaughn Williams
• Malaguena
• Appalachian Spring -- Aaron Copland

Band Directors: Tom Bennett, Matthew McInturf
Drum Majors: Trey Inman (Head), Leigh Ann Kee , Heidi Proctor

Program:

• Crown Imperial
• Softly As I Leave You

Band Directors: Tom Bennett, Matthew McInturf
Drum Majors: Matthew McNeill (Head), Andy Winters, Trey Inman

Program:

• Folk Song Suite
• Flight of the Bumblebees
• Fire Dance
• West Side Story (Somewhere) -- Leonard Bernstein

Band Directors: Tom Bennett, David Allred, Matthew McInturf
Drum Majors: Cindy Spence, Drew Debelack, Matthew McNeill

Program:

• Pictures at an Exhibition
• In the Stone
• Lady With the Long Feathered Hat -- Weather Report (?)
• Softly as I Leave You

Band Directors: Tom Bennett and David Allred
Drum Majors: Mike Haswell and Patti Ponder

Trivia:

From an MMB Member: Pictures at an Exhibition started with a trumpet duet, followed 
by Baba Yaga's Hut with the flag toss over the line 
of tubas and ending with the Great Gate at Kiev.
	    
            

Program:

• Jupiter from The Planets -- Gustav Holst
• Fantasy -- Earth, Wind and Fire
• Legend of the One Eyed Sailor -- Chuck Mangione
• Let It Be Me

Band Directors: Tom Bennett and David Allred
Drum Majors: Suzie Davenport and Doran McMahon

Trivia:

From an MMB Member:: Jupiter from Holst's The Planets Fantasy (Earth, Wind and Fire); Legend
of the One Eyed Sailor (Chuck Mangione) (this was a flag corps feature, the band
didn't move). Let It Be Me (I remember this opened with a trombone quartet for the
first phrase of the music. There were also two solo trumpets toward the end that were...miked!
A big deal in 1980. 

Program:

• Dvorak's New World Symphony - M. IV
• Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
• Marianne
• Primal Scream -- Chuck Mangione

Band Directors: Tom Bennett and David Allred
Drum Majors: Mike Canterbury and Diane Sawyer

Program:

• Conquest
• Land of Make Believe -- Chuck Mangione
• Marianne
• Pippin / Morning Glow
• Drum break: Dueling Banjos

Band Directors: Tom Bennett, David Allred
Drum Majors: Bill Pilcher, Cincy Williams

Trivia:

From an MMB Member: I think this was Tom Bennett's first
year at Pearce. He sure liked Chuck Mangione, didn't he? But then, so did
everyone else at the time.

Program:

• Slaughter on 10th Avenue
• MacArthur Park
• Brian's Song

Band Directors: Greg Talford and Pat Arsers
Drum Majors: Dave Rose, Cindy Rowland, and Phyllis McLean

Program:

• Killing me Softly
• You Are the Sunshine of My Life

Band Directors: Tom Guilbert, Bob Hargrove
Drum Major: Scott Dalrymple

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Band Directors: Tom Guilbert?, Bob Hargrove?
Drum Major: Kim White, Jim Browning

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Band Directors: Tom Guilbert?, Bob Hargrove?
Drum Major: Bruce Brandt, Kim White

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Band Directors: Tom Guilbert?, Bob Hargrove?
Drum Major: Chris Swartz, David Facker

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Drum Major: Mary Taylor, Charles George