Gene Van Accordion Conservatory of Music
Mishawaka Indiana

 

The following might bring back a memory or two and give others a good idea of the type and caliber of music Gene was able to get from a group of elementary, middle school and high school kids.

Symphony Selections

Classical Modern
Balkan Impressions, Gerhard Mohr
 Capriccio Italien, Op. 45, P. Tchaikovsky
Chopin Concerto No. 2, 3rd Movement  Chopin
Circus Suite,  Aretta
Concerto #7, Franceschina
Die Italienerin in Algier, Rossini - Munch
Divertimento, Fritz Dobler 
Espani Cani  Margquina
Fantasie
Fantasia Iberica, Gerhard Mohr
Finale to Fourth Symphony, Tchaikovsky
Jubilee Overture, Von Weber
A Night On Bald Mountain  Moussorgsky  
Panis-Angelicus  Franck
Russian Easter
Schubert's Unfinished Symphony
Schweizerische Rhapsodie (Rapsodie Suisse), Rudolf Wurthner
Sinfonische Suite, Wolfgang Jacobi
Symphony #3 (Eroica) in E (flat) Major--Beethoven
Beethoven's 5th Symphony
Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique), Tchaikovsky
Trische Suite, Matyas Seiber
Warsaw Concerto  Addinsell
William Tell Overture
Academy Awards Medley (Godfather, Summer of '42 Shaft)
Autumn Leaves
Around the World Medley 
Ave Maria
Ballet For Young Americans
Brazilian Sleigh Bells  Faith
By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Jim Webb 
Christmas Song
Hello Dolly
I Believe
It's Too Late - Carol King
Love Is Blue
MacArthur Park, Jim Webb
More
My Fair Lady
Never On Sunday  Hadjidakis
Precious & Few
Rainy Days & Mondays
Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head
Simple Simon  Van
Sleigh Ride   Leroy Anderson
Sound of Music
Spinning Wheel
Spring Can Really Hurry You Up
Spring Is Here   Rodgers, hart - Chino
Stars & Stripes Forever 
Theme/Mondo Cane  Oliviero -Ortolani
Tonight  Bernstein-Sondheim
USA on Parade  Arr: Aretta-Rodionoff
Watch What Happens
Young Americans Medley
Junior Vans Van's Vagabonds
 
Gay 90's Medley 
Dance of the Buffoons  Rimsky-Korsakow-Magnante
Billboard March  Klohr Palmer-Hughes
Blue Danube   Strauss Rodionoff
God of Our Fathers 
La Raspa
LaVirgen DeLa Marcarenas 
Little Brown Jug 
Salute To Spring  Howell - Aretta
Sonatina  Clementi - Palmer/Hughes
William Tell Overture
 
Camptown Twist  Palmer-Hughes
Clair De Lune
Danse Des Bouffons, Rimsky-Korsakow
Donkey Serenade  Friml-Stothart 
Dixieland Rag, Palmer-Hughes
Duffy Polka, Aretta
Fiddler on the Roof  Bock Palmer-Hughes
Gay 90's Medley
Jesusita en Chihuahua  Plumb Palmer-Hughes
Melody of Love  Engelman Palmer-Hughes
Rita Polka  Maccanelli - d'Auberge

*Photos Van's Vagabonds

 
Show Band  
West Side Story Somewhere in the late 70's, early 80's a new crop of students came in and Gene switched to the "Show Band.  Anyone involved in the show band days...please contact us and send in the list of songs and photos.  Thank you.

 CHAMPIONSHIPS

Group Titles Won
Symphony 1967 Indiana and United States Champions
Symphony 1968 Senior Band Champions IAA
Symphony 1968 United States Champions
Symphony 1969 Indiana State Champions
Van's Vagabonds 1969 Indiana State Champions
   
   
   
   
Symphony 1970 Indiana Virtuoso Band Champions
Junior Vans 1970 Junior Band Champions
Van's Vagabonds 1971 Indiana Intermediate Band
Symphony 1973 Virtuoso Band Champions
   

 

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