Americana theme for Sunday’s Brazil Concert Band performance

BRAZIL -- Pure Americana is the theme for the free Sunday, July 1 show by the Brazil Concert Band and Jackson Township Community Band, both under the direction of Matthew S. Huber.

The patriotic fanfare begins at the special time of 7:30 p.m. at Forest Park in Brazil, rain or shine, during the annual week-long Rotary Fourth of July Celebration.

Brazil was recognized by the John Philip Sousa Foundation last year for hosting Sousa and his band in 1912.

Sousa classics “The Liberty Bell,” “Semper Fidelis” and “The Star and Stripes Forever” will sound forth.

Broadway showmen Irving Berlin and George M. Cohan will strut center stage with “Irving Berlin -- A Symphonic Portrait” arranged by Hawley Ades and “George M. Cohan Patriotic Fantasy” by Walter Ehret and Paul Yoder.

The bands will salute veterans past and present with “Armed Forces Medley” by Bob Lowden, which includes the songs of the Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard and Air Force.

Clare Grundman’s “The Blue and the Gray” has several tunes which followed soldiers into battle from the Civil War and even during World War I and World War II.

From Indiana’s March King Fred Jewell comes “E Pluribus Unum” written during World War I and Edward E. Bagley’s “National Emblem” dating from 1906.

The trumpet section is featured in Leroy Anderson’s “Bugler’s Holiday.”

“The Fourth of July,” containing parts from nearly every patriotic song, and “America” are both by military band arranger John Cacavas.

“America, the Beautiful” is arranged for band by Carmen Dragon and “Americans, We” by Henry Fillmore are featured.