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Austin Symphonic Band Performing Yellow Rose of Texas

Austin Symphonic Band ( https://austinsymphonicband.org/ ). February 1, 2026. ASB performing Yellow Rose of Texas (arr. Carmen Dragon, adapt. R. Mark Rogers). [NOTE: Click 'more' to read the program notes.] Music Director Dr. Kyle R. Glaser conducting. “These United States” Concert at the Connally HS Performing Arts Center in Austin, TX. Austin Symphonic Band depends on the financial support of viewers like you. Visit https://austinsymphonicband.org/donate Attend the next Austin Symphonic Band concert! Visit https://austinsymphonicband.org Video and Sound Production: Eddie Jennings From the program notes written by Clifton Jones: The Yellow Rose of Texas Arranged by Carmen Dragon, adapted for concert band by R. Mark Rogers Mark Rogers had some interesting and entertaining recollections about the premiere of Carmen Dragon’s arrangement of The Yellow Rose of Texas. At that time he was a bassoonist and the librarian for the Lubbock Symphony. The following is part of a conversation with Mark about the premiere: In the middle 1970’s, Carmen Dragon came to Lubbock to conduct the Lubbock Symphony on two occasions. On the second of these occasions … he was going to make an arrangement of The Yellow Rose that was to be premiered by the Lubbock Symphony on our concert. In those days … the schedule for the Lubbock Symphony … started with a Sunday night rehearsal. We took Monday off, we had a Tuesday night rehearsal, we took Wednesday off … we’re in Texas, so Wednesday night’s a church night. Then we had Thursday, Friday rehearsals … and the concert was Saturday. So, because of the shortness of time, they needed to hire somebody to copy parts. I had been doing that for [the Texas Tech] marching band … so I was contracted to do that. I contacted Mr. Dragon and asked him when will I have the score to start working on this? And he said, come to my hotel first thing Monday morning, and I’ll have something for you. So about 10 o’clock Monday morning after the Sunday rehearsal, I showed up at his hotel room, and he had the first half of the score. And I said, ok, when will I have the second half of the score, and he said tomorrow morning, ten o’clock...I met him in the in the lobby of the hotel, maybe there was a reception room or something. I said is there a piano here? How are you working out this arrangement? And he looked at me like, you poor dumb kid, and he just tapped himself on the forehead, and he said, you know, it starts here, and it goes to the paper … he was a trombone player, apparently he had one of those minds where he could conceive, sketch out the arrangement in his head and go straight to paper, without sitting at a piano or anything else. So I showed up Tuesday and picked up the rest of the score, and, of course, we didn’t have the parts ready for Tuesday night, but I was copying like mad, and we read through it Thursday night, and it was sensational. It was really terrific and we played on Saturday night and it was very well received. Now as the week went by, a couple of things began to dawn on me. One of them was that the reason he didn’t start the arrangement until after the Sunday night rehearsal, was that he wanted to scout out the orchestra, and find out where the good players were, and where the bad players were. I came to realize the little Alberti bass thing that’s divided up between the two bassoons at the beginning of the piece … he wrote that for me and my teacher, Richard Meek. It didn’t dawn on me until much later … it was like, “Wow! How neat! He heard us in the Sunday rehearsal and said, these are the people who can play.” Several years later, Rogers received permission from the Dragon family estate to make a concert band adaptation, which is the version performed today.