Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Week 7 - July 28 Concert

 The Chemical City Band will perform its seventh concert of the 112th Season on July 28, 2021 at the Nicholson-Guenther Community Band Shell in Midland's Central Park, starting at 7:30 PM.  In case of rain, the concert is cancelled because we have no alternate performance site.  Please check this blog or our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/chemicalcityband) for last minute instructions, if necessary.


Eric Attard will be our guest conductor, while Steve DeRees takes a position in the tuba section.  The following pieces will be presented:

Williamsburg Overture..................................................................................James Swearingen

The Homefront: Musical Memories from World War II.........................arr. James Christensen

Air for Band.....................................................................................................Frank Erickson

Bombasto.............................................................................Orion R. Farrar, arr. J. Edmondson


Intermission


The High School Cadets March.........................................................................John Philip Sousa

The Marriage of Figaro Overture...................................Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, arr. E. Slocum

Over the Rainbow...................................................Edgar Harburg and Harold Arlen, arr. J. Brubaker

Bravada Esprit..........................................................................................................David Shaffer

Barnum and Bailey's Favorite March..................................................Karl L. King, arr. G.C. Bainum

America, the Beautiful..................................................................Samuel F. Ward, arr. A.F. Gaylord

The Star-Spangled Banner.......................................................John Stafford Smith, arr. A.F. Gaylord


Historical photo courtesy of the Alden B. Dow Archives


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