Brazil Concert Band to highlight Broadway this Sunday

Friday, July 19, 2019

The Brazil Concert Band’s show for this Sunday, July 21 will include a newly formed group, the Terre Haute Brass Ensemble.

The group is made up of musicians from throughout the Wabash Valley, and will perform at 7:20 p.m. prior to the Brazil Concert Band’s weekly performance at Forest Park, rain or shine.

The BCB, directed by Matthew Huber, will present “A Midsummer’s Offering” and include Broadway, band classics, pop favorites and marches.

As the group continues to honor the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, “Blue Moon” by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, and in an arrangement by Dave Bennett, will be heard.

Also by Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein will be “The Golden Age of Broadway” arranged by John Moss, with “Bali Ha’i,” “Oklahoma!,” “Getting to Know You,” “Carousel” and “Climb Ev’ry Mountain.”

Another special Broadway salute will be the overture from 1951’s “The King and I” in a band score by Robert Russell Bennett.

The pop classic “Angel Eyes” by Matt Davis and arranged by Carroll DeCamp is also on tap, along with “St. Louis Blues” by W.C. Handy.

Marches will include “The Northern Pines” by John Philip Sousa, “The Florentiner” by Julius Fucik and Henry Fillmore’s “The Klaxon,” highlighting the BCB’s saxophones and French horns.

Spotlighted from the movie “10” starring Bo Derek is the classic “Bolero” by Maurice Ravel, arranged by Jay Bocook.

From England comes “First Suite in E-flat for Military Band” written in 1909 by Gustav Holst, with its famous chaconne, intermezzo and march.

The concession stand this week will be under the direction of the Clay County Soccer Club serving Italian beef.

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