Director of the St. Joseph Municipal Band, Dr. Donald Moely, indicated the band concerts scheduled for Sunday, August 11 will highlight the vocal artistry of Minden Brown, featured soloist, along with guest conductor, Dr. Jonathan Korzun, and solos performed by with two members of the band Phil Barham on Alto Saxophone and Bill Camp on trumpet.

The program begins with a guest vocalist Brinden Brown singing a unique arrangement of "Star Spangled Banner." The special rendition includes a 2^nd verse with a climactic ending. After this opening of the concert, the band begins with a favorite march where the audience can even join in by whistling or humming entitled "On the Mall" by Edwin Franko Goldman.

Heard next will be professional trumpet player Bill Camp, formerly of Niles but now living in Chicago, who manages his busy schedule to perform several times each summer with the Municipal Band. BILL CAMP enters his seventeenth year as a traveling performer and guest soloist. Camp has appeared with the Lake Forest Symphony, American Ballet Theater Orchestra, Northwest Indiana Symphony, Kenosha Symphony, Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra and the Symphonic Pops Orchestra of Chicago and now performs with Chicago Classic Brass. He has performed in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, and at La Scala, Italy. This fall Camp will tour Taiwan with the Pops Orchestra of Chicago. As a soloist Mr. Camp has appeared with The Quad Cities Symphony, The Dallas Wind Symphony, Chicago Chamber Brass, Northwest Indiana Symphony, and many other performing ensembles. Camp graduated from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and The University of Michigan and his principal teachers include Gene Young, Louis Davidson, Armando Ghitalla and Thomas Crown. Camp will perform Herbert L. Clarke’s "Bands of Gold." He later will be joined by Principal trumpet player of the band in a trumpet duet, "The Pals Polka," by George D. Barnard.

Next the band features it’s vocal guest, BRINDEN BROWN, who is a native of Elkhart, Indiana, who moved to Edwardsburg, Michigan during high school. After graduating from the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, MI her senior year, she attended Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, for four years majoring in vocal performance. For the past three years she has been a student at Bethel College in Mishawaka, Indiana. Her vocal teachers have included Randi Pickley and Joan Troyer of Elkhart, Jeffery Norris at Interlochen Arts Academy, and Rita Shane at Eastman School of Music. She is currently a student of Victoria Garrett at Bethel College. A veteran of the stage since her youth, Miss Brown has performed a variety of both musical theater and opera roles including Edith in The Pirates of Penzance, Lola in Gallantry, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Despina in Cosi Fan Tutti, Lauretta in Gianni Schicci, Golde in Fiddler on the Roof, and Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie. In addition, Miss Brown has been the soprano soloist for a number of concert appearances in the Michiana area. Miss Brown will sing "Selections from Oliver," by Lionel Bart, arranged by Norman Leyden.

The band also features its leader of the saxophone section, Phil Barham. PHIL BARHAM , native of Dowagiac, was dubbed by a London critic after his debut there, "An American master saxophonist..." He received his Bachelor of Music degree in woodwinds from University of North Texas , and his Master of Music Degree in wind instruments/saxophone from the University of Michigan. He was a former saxophone instructor at California State University, Northridge and is presently a clinician for the Selmer Company and Assistant Professor of Saxophone and Clarinet at Andrews University, Southwestern Michigan College and Lake Michigan College. Mr. Barham has also been saxophone instructor for Western Michigan University's Summer Seminar. As a world touring saxophone artist, he has performed in the Purcell Room, in London as well as in Oslo, at Universitetets Aula, and in Geneva, Switzerland. Audiences and critics agree with the opinion already offered by the New York Times published after his debut at Carnegie Recital Hall, which said that Phil's playing represents "..the ability to swing at a dancing rhythm or to blister through a swift rippling melody.." Phil is in constant demand as a clinician and performer, Mr. Barham appears regularly with the Southwest Michigan Symphony, the South Bend Symphony and the Kalamazoo Symphony, Mr. Barham has also appeared on Public Television's WNIT "Open Studio." Phil will perform "Miscellanies," by Holst, conducted by Dr. Jonathan Korzun.

Dr. Korzun will also be guest conducting "Time to Remember," by Philip Spark, a piece written primarily to celebrate the new century. However since, September 11, 2001, the piece has taken on additional meaning.

Dr. Jonathan Korzun, guest conductor today to direct the Flugelhorn solo, and who has guest directed the accompaniment for several solos this summer is a member of the bands trombone section. Dr. Korzun is starting his ninth year as Director of Bands at Southwestern Michigan College in Dowagiac, Michigan. His duties there include conductor of the Symphonic Band, Community Brass Band and Jazz Ensemble, instructor of Music Theory and trombone, and coordinator of the Instrumental Music program. During his tenure at SMC, Dr. Korzun founded the 28-member Community Brass Band, and the Symphonic Band and Jazz Ensemble which have grown from a beginning combined membership of 16 to their current membership of 45 for the Symphonic Band and 18 (full "Big Band" instrumentation) for the Jazz Ensemble. Guest artists booked by Dr. Korzun at SMC concerts have included Clark Terry, Ed Shaunessey and Danny Barber. On April 3, 1999, the SMC Bands premiered three new works, one for each band) by composer Stephen Bulla. This marks the first time a college has simultaneously commissioned works from one composer for Symphonic Band, Brass Band and Jazz Ensemble. An outgrowth of the S.M.C. Community Brass Band, Dr. Korzun founded and directs the Round Oak Cornet Band, a small brass band that performs nineteenth century American Brass band music on authentic mid nineteenth century instruments.

The concert concludes with Sousa’s "Power and Glory" march.

The concerts are free to the public and are held at 3:30 and 7:30 p.m., each Sunday for the rest of the summer and including Labor Day, at the John E. N. Howard Band Shell across from the Whitcomb in downtown St. Joseph.