The Music Department

Here is a collection of media and memories from the NFA Music Department during our four years at NFA and more. The stuff has been digitized from VHS tapes and audio cassette tapes.

Annual Vocal Concert of The Norwich Free Academy - May 15, 1963

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A Capella Choir Glee Clubs Academics Slater Memorial Hall, May 15, 1963 Let All Things Now Living - English Melody 2:05 Pecosia - Maurice Whitney 1:45 My Hero - Oscar Straus (Junior Girls' Glee Club) 2:35 Hello Everybody (The Academics) 1:05 Levee Song - American Folk Song 2:40 Twilight On The Trail - Louis Alter (Boys' Glee Club) 2:25 Kentucky Babe (The Academics) 3:30 Sweet and Low - arr. by Leslie Bell 2:25 Thinking of You - Harry Ruby 2:45 The Bells of St. Marys - A.E. Adams (Girl Glee Club) 2:38 April Is In Her Lovely Face - Thomas Morley (Student Conductor - James Troeger) 1:45 Adoramus Te Christe - Palestrina 1:42 Come Let's Be Merry - English Folk Song 1:30 O Magnum Mysterium - Victoria Russian Picnic - Guest Conductor - James Hansen - Russian Folk Tunes (Soloist - Ernest Pool) 3:30 He Watching Over Israel - Mendelssohn 3:55 The Inch Worm - Frank Loesser 2:49 Summertime - George Gershwin 2:20 Fireflies - Russian Folk Song 0:35 Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel - Negro Spiritual 2:00 N.F.A. Our Alma Mater - Overbaugh-Boglie 2:07

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1986-87 Halftime Show #2

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The NFA Marching Band has learned a few more songs towards the end of the 1986-87 season for their halftime show: Exaltation, The Roaring 20's, and The Love She Found In Me.

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1986-87 Halftime Show #1

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This is a halftime show from the beginning of the 1986-87 season when the marching band had only one song prepared so far: Thor!

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Cheshire Band Competition - Music Ensemble Performance

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This is the music ensemble performance judge's tape from the Cheshire Marching Band Competition on October 29, 1988.

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Cheshire Band Competition - Individual Analysis

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This is the individual analysis judge's tape from the Cheshire Marching Band Competition on October 29, 1988.

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Marching Band Competition at Fitch 1988

The NFA Marching Band competing at Fitch High School, November 19, 1988.

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