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We are grateful to Tim Cartland (tim@livestreammadison.com) who, free of charge, live-streamed the concert.  If you would care to listen, click on the link below. It is a large files so will take a while to load. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fm2ohy4xjqhcwnt3632t8/Madison-New-Horizons-Band-Winter-Concert-2023.mp4?rlkey=sdq5n1z74tz4n2xfohckyum9s&dl=0 Once the… Continue reading December 17, 2023 Concert

September 6 – 8, 2024 in beautiful Door County, WI Save the date so you don’t miss out!

A trumpet quartet comprised of Madison New Horizons Band members Kathy, Mark, Bob, and Lorene honored a long-time member of our trumpet section when they played a moving rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone from the Rodgers and Hammerstein 1945… Continue reading Fitting Tribute

Band Camp Schedule Friday, September 9, 2022 10:00   >   Noon          Registration Noon     >   1:30          Full Band Rehearsal 1:45     >   2:20         Breakout Session 1 2:30     >   3:20         Breakout Session 2 3:45     >   5:00         Full Band Rehearsal 5:00     >   7:30         Dinner on… Continue reading 2022 Door County Band Camp

Our 2021 Holiday Concert was a huge success! We were honored to premier the Michael Leckrone work titled Arrythmia. The members of Hooked On Bands partnered with Ward-Brodt Music, the sponsor of our Madison New Horizons Band, to commission this… Continue reading 2021 Holiday Concert

. Interested in joining us? Contact: hookedonbands@gmail.com or our principal conductor Mark Saltzman at 608-628-3933.

We’ve updated our site, but most of the old information is still here, and we welcome you to have a look around! If you find any broken links or anything that isn’t quite right, let us know! We’ll be adding… Continue reading Welcome to the new HOB site!

As with many in the New Horizons Band, Andy Somers got back to playing music after a long hiatus.  A lengthy legal career kept him busy and away from blowing the trumpet.  While he continues to practice law in retirement, he… Continue reading Here Comes The Judge — Trumpet Playing That Is!

Emily Link has been with the Band since 1996 — after a four-decade hiatus away from her clarinet. Now she plays three different instruments. What first brought you to the New Horizons Band? I joined the New Horizons Band of Madison… Continue reading Forty Years Between Gigs and Emily’s Still Blowin’

by Jerry Greenberg  Harvey Black has been blowing alto sax in both the concert and jazz bands since he “discovered” New Horizons in around 2006.  Along with his passion for music, Harvey keeps busy with an array of mental and physical… Continue reading Some Sax, Some Acting, Some Exercise…

by Jerry Greenberg  Ken Johnson has been with New Horizons since discovering it in 2002.  He is one of those dual instrument players, blowing the “bone” for the swing band and the euphonium for the concert band. When he’s not playing,… Continue reading One instrument not enough for Ken Johnson

Posted by Jerry Greenberg  Phil Vorlander picked up the alto sax a little later than many in the band. Rather than coming back to his horn years after playing in high school or college, Phil took his first lessons in 2011.… Continue reading Phil Started Later In Life But Now Blows in Seven Bands!

Harvey found this neat video to share with the band. Thanks, Harvey!

by Jerry Greenberg  In addition to all the fun and joy the New Horizons Band has playing and creating music, it seems we are also getting smarter as we go!   Read the full article at The Guardian. Author: Mo Costandi,… Continue reading Want to ‘train your brain’? Forget apps, learn a musical instrument

by Glenn Nielsen on December 4, 2013 The Coolest Music in the World: Listen to Siberian Ice Drummers Use Frozen Lake Baikal as an Incredible Musical Instrument A group of Siberian percussionists have become an internet hit with an exhibition of ice… Continue reading Very Cool Percussion

by Jerry Greenberg on February 19, 2017 Harvey Black offers up the theme from the movie, “The Third Man” as his “song of the day.” The reason?  “It is a haunting melody from one of the best films ever made, says Harvey.… Continue reading Song of the Day: Theme from “The Third Man”

by Jerry Greenberg on May 30, 2016 Perez Prado serves up this smokin’ rendition of Mambo Number 5, an excerpt of which the New Horizons Concert Band dished out at the June 15, 2016 concert as part of its Mambo Medley!   Here’s Prado’s version:

by Jerry Greenberg on February 16, 2017 New Horizons sax player Bea Christensen says she loves How Long Has This Been Going On?, a 1928 song by George and Ira Gershwin. Bea, who also performs vocals for the band, says she loves to sing How Long.… Continue reading Song of the Day: “How Long Has This Been Going On”

Music as community by Jerry Greenberg on January 15, 2017 I attended a performance and work shop last night (January 14, 2017) at Prairie Music and Arts in Sun Prairie. The musicians on hand to perform and lead the clinic were Milwaukee-based Jamie Breiwick (pictured left),… Continue reading Some Observations on a Workshop & Performance

by Jerry Greenberg on October 20, 2016 Like so many musicians around the world, the members of the New Horizons Concert and Swing Bands play because of a passion we have for music… and wanting to express ourselves through music. This kind… Continue reading “Recycled Orchestra” Shows Kids Passion to Play

The New Horizons Jazz Band played Oye Como Va during its performance Friday July 8, 2016, at Oakwood Village. This jazz standard was written and popularized by the legendary Tito Puente. According to Wikipedia, Ernesto Antonio “Tito” Puente was born April 20, 1923 and grew up… Continue reading Oye Como Va — A Classic Live Version from the Master

by Jon Nelson on February 24, 2015 Got high blood pressure? Listen up! To music that is. In the March 2015 Reader’s Digest it was reported that medical research has validated something we’ve all known for a long time… Listening to music… Continue reading Music Soothes the Savage… Blood Pressure

The jazz world was devastated when Clifford Brown died in a late night auto accident in 1956.  Only 26 years old and still growing and maturing as a jazz trumpeter, Brown’s death left a huge whole in the jazz world.… Continue reading Luscious Rendition of “I Remember Clifford”

If you haven’t discovered this treasure trove of vintage AND modern jazz video recordings, you’re missing out! Visit https://jazzonthetube.com/video/ and use the search engine to find whatever suits your mood!

From the New York Times comes a story about professional musicians playing alongside amateurs. The reporter Daniel J. Wakin, an amateur clarinetist, spent a week at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Academy. The video version of the story is here. Gabe… Continue reading Band Camp for Grownups

Over the Rainbow, which was played by the New Horizon’s Concert Band in Middleton on June 15, 2016, is beautifully rendered in this version by Banda Municipal do Funchal.  Here’s it is: Banda Municipal do Funchal – Artistas Funchalenses 165th Anniversary concert –… Continue reading Over the Rainbow

Turned off to the clarinet by her older sister’s practice routines, Muriel Gilbert looked for a different instrument to play… and fell in love with the sound of the flute when she attended her sister’s school band concert.   What… Continue reading An Original Member of the Band, Muriel Plays Flute Because of Her Sister