Brazil Concert Band to play favorite tunes this Sunday

BRAZIL — The Brazil Concert Band, with director Matthew Huber, will present “Classics of the BCB” this Sunday, July 31 at 8 p.m. in Forest Park, rain or shine.

The band will play an old favorite with “Princess of India,” a circus overture by Karl King, coupled with “The Caravan Club,” one of his most interesting circus marches.

Fans of Glenn Miller will dance to “Glenn Miller in Concert” arranged by Wayne Scott, with several of the World War II bandleader’s best known hits with “Moonlight Serenade,” “Little Brown Jug,” “At Last,” “Chattanooga Choo Choo” and “Pennsylvania 6-5000.”

Lovers of Broadway and Hollywood will applaud the overture from “The King and I,” arranged by Russell Alexander, and the main theme from “Superman” by John Williams and arranged by Jerry Nowak.

From the United Kingdom will hail the march from “First Suite in E-flat for Military Band” by Gustav Holst and edited by Frederick Fennell, while from Australian-born Percy Grainger comes “Country Gardens” in an arrangement by John Philip Sousa.

The band will also perform Sousa’s “The Corcoran Cadets,” written during his leadership of the United States Marine Band, as well as “The American Red Cross March” by Louis Panella, written during World War I, and Henry Fillmore’s “His Honor,” written in Cincinnati in 1934.

The Brazil Concert Band performs every Sunday through the end of August.

For more information, visit www.brazilconcertband.org or “like” the band on Facebook.