SUNDAY, AUGUST 7 CONCERTS @ 3:30 and 7:30 p.m.

The St. Joseph Municipal Band continues the 2005 summer season with its normal set of double concerts on Sunday, August 7th, at 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. The weekly summer concerts are held at the John E. N. Howard Band Shell in downtown St. Joseph overlooked Lake Michigan. The August 7th concerts, the 8th of 13 double concerts scheduled for the season, will feature The Municipal Band Brass Quintet and vocalist singing excerpts from "Phantom of the Opera.

Director Dr. Donald Moely, announced the concert begins with Sousa’s "Hands Across the Sea." When Sousa’s band first played this march in Philadelphia Academy of Music in 1899, the audience loved it so much the band was obliged to repeat it three times.

This is followed by Claude T. Smith’s "Emperata Overture."

The first guest entertainment of the concert next comes with the Municipal Band Brass Quintet.

The Municipal Band Brass Quintet is coordinated by William Camp, formerly of Niles but presently a professional trumpet player in Chicago. He regularly performs with the Chicago Classic Brass and has also performed in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, and at La Scala, Italy. Charles Steck, Trumpet, is Associate Director of Bands and Choirs at LaPorte High School, and Instructor of Trumpet and Trumpet Choir at Valparaiso University. Stacie Detgen, French horn, is a graduate of Michigan State University and teaches in Charlotte, and has been a member of this band for 26 years. Alan Mitchell, Trombone, is an Assistant Professor of Music at Andrews University. His teaching responsibilities include the Wind Symphony and music education courses for the B.M. and M.M. in Music Education degrees. Bob Rusk, formerly a member of the Milwaukee Symphony, lives in South Bend and has performed with the St. Joseph Municipal Band for the past several years as an alternate and now as a full time member

The brass quintet will perform Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, followed by Four Songs from "Chorus Line", including "One," "What I Did For Love," "Dance, Ten - Looks," "I Can Do Than:

The band follows with a performance of Leonard Smith’s "The March King"

The is followed guest vocalists, Natie Dreyer and Zachery Kropp of South Bend will sing "Summer Nights’ from hit musical "Grease."

Later in the concert they will again be featured singing selections from the Broadway Musical "The Phantom of the Opera."

Natalie Dreyer will be a Senior this fall at John Adams High School in South Bend. The past two years she has been the only choir member in all of the South Bend Schools to be selected the past two years for the Indiana All State Choir. She received ‘superior’ ratings in solos and ensembles in both district and state festivals the past three years and has been a member of the select Adams Show Choir for all her years in high school. She also plays Cello in the high school orchestra.

Zachary Kropp graduated from Adams High School this past June, and received a scholarship to attend the University of Oklahoma to major in Music Drama. While in high school, he was in the select Adams Show Choir, received ‘superior’ ratings in solos and ensembles in both district and state festivals and as well played piano in Jazz Ensemble, clarinet in band and was selected was the only person in the South Bend public school chosen to participate in the auditioned All State Choir as a Junior in high school.

The concert band will also play "Big Band Spectacular" by Jack Bullock, featuring some of the top big band tunes of the era.

The conclusion of the concert comes with "The Big Cage and fast circus march by Karl K. King.

The hour long Municipal Band concerts at the John E. N. Howard band shell are held each Sunday at 3:30 & 7:30 p.m. and continue through Sunday, September 4 and conclude with the final set of concerts Monday, September 5, Labor Day.