The Concord Band presents its Winter Concert, titled "Movie Night," on Saturday March 14, 2026, 7:00 pm at the Performing Arts Center, 51 Walden Street, Concord MA. Music Director James O'Dell has selected iconic themes from film scores.
The title theme from John Williams’ jazz-oriented and Oscar-nominated score for Catch Me if You Can was arranged for band by Jay Bocook and features Concord Band alto saxophone soloist David Southard and the Band’s vibraphone and xylophone players.
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| David Southard saxophone |
The program includes a medley of movie music by fellow Academy Award winning composer Enrico Morricone, from popular spaghetti Westerns Once Upon a Time in the West as well as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. More Western themes are featured from Elmer Bernstein’s Oscar-nominated score for The Magnificent Seven.
Hollywood has long relied on Broadway adaptations to fill movie theaters. The program will present selections from Leonard Bernstein’s music for the Tony award winning show and 1961 Oscar for Best Score in a Musical, West Side Story, arranged for band by W. J. Dutroit.
Walt Disney’s animated classic Fantasia is now widely regarded as one of the most significant animated films of all time, in part due to innovative symphonic performances of classical music in an animated feature. For this concert, the Concord Band will play Night on Bare Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky, which featured prominently in the film.
Although Johan de Meij’s band Symphony No. 1 The Lord of the Rings was written some twelve years before the movie trilogy and their scores by Howard Shore, nonetheless characters and action from the popular books and movies will spring to life when the Concord Band plays the first and fifth movements, "Gandalf" and "Hobbits."
The Concord Band is a 65-piece symphonic band that plays at least five indoor and six outdoor concerts each year. The March 14 concert is free with open seating and a requested donation of $20. A complimentary reception will follow the concert.
Additional information about the Concord Band and the concert can be found at the website www.concordband.org, the blog at concordband.blogspot.com, on Facebook and YouTube.
