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Carnegie Hall concert

Friday, 15 March 2002 at 8pm

A special invitation-only concert featuring the Concert Band, Hellcats, Cadet Glee Club and the U.S. Army Herald Trumpets. Walter Cronkite was a guest conductor.


Secretary of the Army Thomas E. White addresses the audience

The Army Herald Trumpets played Heroic Fanfare to open the concert

Walter Cronkite was a guest conductor

USMA Conductor Lt. Col. David Deitrick

The Hellcats' Sgt. Maj. Arthur Himmelberger on bass drum

Hellcat buglers Staff Sgts. John Manning, Deric Milligan and Jon Leonard

Hellcat drummers Staff Sgt. Gaspare Cuccia, Jr., Master Sgt. Donald Trefethen, and Staff Sgt. Eric Sheffler

Cadet Glee Club

The Concert Band and Cadet Glee Club

The french horn section: Staff Sgt. Brian Nichols, Sgt. First Class Harry Ditzel, and Staff Sgts. Susan Davidson and Troy Messner

On clarinet: Staff Sgts. Sinclair Hackett, Shawn Herndon, Chris Jones and Jennifer Tibbs; Master Sgt. Bob Smither on trumpet; Master Sgt. William Treat on piccolo; and Sgt. First Class Julie Ditzel on flute.

Sgt. Maj. Joel Evans performs a solo on the oboe

Sgt. Maj. Rick Gerard emcee'd the concert

Sgt. First Class Dana Kimble solos

Concert Band vocalsit Staff Sgt. Mary Kay Messenger

Jazz Knights' vocalsit Staff Sgt. Laura Bradley
 
Bicentennial event recap
Carnegie Hall

15 March 2002
A special invitation-only concert at New York City's famed Carnegie Hall. The concert featured the USMA Concert Band, Hellcats, Cadet Glee Club and U.S. Army Herald Trumpets. Walter Cronkite was a guest conductor.