July 3, 2005

SUNDAY, JULY 3 CONCERTS @ 3:30 and 7:30 PM

The St. Joseph Municipal Band continues the 2005 season summer concerts with its normal set of double concerts on Sunday, July 3 at the regular 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. times at the newly renovated John E. N. Howard Band Shell in downtown St. Joseph overlooked Lake Michigan. The July 3 concerts will feature music motivate by the movies. Special guest soloist is Brinden Brown.

Director Dr. Donald Moely, who continues his eighteenth season as conductor of the band, indicated that the concert’s general theme is music in the movies. The program begins with a "Colonel Bogey," by Henry Alford, which is perhaps the most famous march written and certainly the most profitable. In 1958, it was chosen as the theme song for the movie "The Bridge over the River Kwai."

The band follows this with an arrangement by Jay Bocook "Film Score Classics." It includes the music of the Warner Brothers Movie Fanfare, The Seahawk, Casablanca Suite, As Time Goes By, Kings Row, and The Theme from "Gone with the Wind."

Next the band brings forth their featured vocal soloist Brinden Brown. BRINDEN BROWN, a native of Elkhart, Indiana, is a graduate of Bethel College and an alumnus of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. She has performed with many companies, orchestras, and choral groups across the country, including the Cleveland Opera, the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist early music ensemble, the Elkhart County Symphony, Southwestern Michigan College, and the Interlochen Arts Academy. She enjoys performing a variety of vocal styles including opera, jazz, pop, gospel, musical theatre, oratorio and early music. This will be Miss Brown’s sixth season as a guest singer with the St. Joseph Municipal Band

Ms. Brown will sing selections from "The Sound of Music," the great musical which was made into a very successful movie.

Songs heard in this selection will include: "The Sound of Music", "How Can Love Survive," "The Lonely Goatherd," "My Favorite Things," "Sixteen Going on Seventeen," "So Long, Farewell," "Edelweiss," "An Ordinary Couple," "No Way to Stop It," "Maria," and "Climb Ev’ry Mountain."

The band moves on to perform one of Sousa’s most popular marches, "High School Cadets." The band then returns to its theme for the concert with Warren Barker’s arrangement of "Hollywood," which includes "Thanks for the Memory," "Theme from Star Trek the Motion Picture," "Moon River," "Never on Sunday," "Over the Rainbow," and "Raiders March."

Next heard will be a Gaelic tune "Morning has Broken," by James D. Ployhar. The finale of the music from the movies concert is the famous Chariot scene from the Movie "Bur Hur," entitled Parade of the Charioteer.

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.

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