Press Release: Concord Band to perform ‘Monuments’

Concord's Louanne MacKenzie and
Laura Finkelstein performing with
the Concord Band.

The Sudler Silver Scroll-winning Concord Band celebrates its 56th year, embarking on a season-long exploration of some of the great works for symphonic concert band. The Fall Concert, MONUMENTS, will be presented at 8 p.m. Oct. 25 at the Performing Arts Center at 51 Walden Street in Concord. The concert features music with programmatic undertones penned by American and international composers, and represents a wide variety of musical styles and genres.

Victory at Sea by Richard Rodgers stands as a monumental and much-loved musical score from an equally-monumental television series from the early 1950s. Robert Russell Bennett’s arrangement of the Symphonic Scenario is a powerful medley that captures the emotion of America at war in the Atlantic and Pacific. Two pieces written for band, Monument by Robert W. Smith and Julie Giroux’s K2: The Savage Mountain, depict the natural beauty of mountains and the human joys and hazards associated with them. Smith’s work celebrates Colorado and includes music that represents some of the settlers who chose to live in those mountains. Giroux says that K2, the world’s second highest peak “calls to mountain climbers around the world with the song of a deadly siren.” Her music portrays and honors the danger and exhilaration those climbers face.

MONUMENTS

The Concord Band Begins its 56th Season
Saturday, October 25th

K2, earth's second-highest summit, is the inspiration
for Julie Giroux's composition, K2: The Savage Mountain.

Join the Concord Band as we celebrate our 56th year of wonderful music-making, embarking on a season-long exploration of some of the great works for symphonic concert band. Our Fall Concert, MONUMENTS, will be presented at the Performing Arts Center at 51 Walden Street in Concord, on Saturday, October 25, 2014, at 8:00 PM. The concert features music with programmatic undertones penned by American and international composers, and represents a wide variety of musical styles and genres.

"Monuments" Fall Concert Poster

Fall 2014 Concert Poster