Tubas, Broadway on Brazil Band bill Sunday night

BRAZIL -- The Brazil Concert Band, under the direction of Matthew S. Huber, will present "Tubas to Broadway" Sunday, Aug. 17.

The free concert will begin at 8 p.m. at Forest Park in Brazil, rain or shine.

This week, the BCB will perform "Tuba Concerto" by Edward Gregson.

Principal tuba player Jason Alsip will perform the second movement of this classic work for solo tuba. Alsip composed an overture, "Quicksilver," during his college days and will guest conduct this original work for the BCB.

Alsip, a 20-year member of the BCB, is a Northview High School graduate where he and his twin brother Jon both won the coveted John Philip Sousa Band Award. Jason is also a graduate of Indiana State University and is a computer programmer.

By request, three Broadway medley overtures will include Lionel Bart's "Oliver!" arranged by Norman Leyden, John Kander's "Cabaret" also arranged by Leyden and Jerry Bock's "Fiddler on the Roof" in a setting by John Warrington.

Marches are a staple of the BCB with "Them Basses" by G.H. Huffine and two not-often-heard Sousa marches, "Harmonica Wizard" and "The Gridiron Club," will get toes tapping.

The French horn quartet of Yurie Uto, Nathan Rainey, Jeff Colvin and Judy Hamilton will perform Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever" in an arrangement by Miss Uto.

Rounding out the play list will be "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin arranged by Jerry Nowak and Richard Wagner's "Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral" transcribed by Lucien Cailliet.