Appalachian Concert Band to give performance April 25

Posted April 14, 2016 at 6:07 p.m.

BOONE—The Appalachian Concert Band will perform Monday, April 25, at 8 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall.

The performance will be conducted by John Stanley Ross and John Whitwell and graduate conductors Matthew Brusseau and Onsby C. Rose.

The performance will begin with “Procession of the Academics” by David Maslanka. The band will then perform “March Des Parachutistes Belges” by Pierre Leemans and arranged by Charles A. Wiley.

Next is a performance of “Blessed Are They” by Johannes Brahms, scored by Barbara Buehlman, followed by Gustav Holst’s “Brook Green Suite,” transcribed by James Curnow.

The concert band will also perform “Canterbury Chorale” by Jan Van der Roost, “American Civil War Fantasy” by Jerry Bilik and “Variations on a Shaker Melody” by Aaron Copland. The concert will conclude with “Semper Fidelis” by John Philip Sousa.

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