Travel the World with July 29 Municipal Band Concert

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Kristen Gleason
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The Paramount Theater
215 East Main Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902
434.979.1922 ext. 103
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For Immediate Release

July 23, 2008

“Music from a Summer Vacation” is the theme for the fifth program in the Charlottesville Municipal Band’s 86th Annual Summer Concert Series. Traveling the musical globe for this concert at The Paramount Theater on Tuesday, July 29 at 8:00 pm, Music Director Steve Layman and the eighty member ensemble will perform favorites sure to please music of all ages. The concert series offers a great opportunity for the whole family to experience an old-fashioned band concert and the Downtown Mall on a Tuesday evening.

The program opens with music from eighteenth century Austria as the band performs a transcription of Mozart’s overture for the Marriage of Figaro. The second stop is a visit to the British Isles as the band performs the Henry Walford Davies march Royal Air Force March Past and Percy Grainger’s lovely setting of Irish Tune from County Derry – known to most “colonials” as Danny Boy.

Italy is the next on the itinerary, as the band performs Glenn Osser’s Italian Festival which contains Summertime in Venice, Love Theme from La Strada, and Anema E Core. Heading west, the band leaves Europe by way of Spain with a performance of Jaime Texidor’s Spanish march Amparito Roca.

The program shifts to American music as the band arrives in the States to perform some of the most recognized music ever written for film and television. Henry Mancini Spectacular presents five of the master’s most popular melodies: Moon River, Baby Elephant Walk, Charade, Dear Heart and Peter Gunn. The band heads west as it performs John Cacavas’ celebration of western dance music and patriotic themes entitled Americana Two-Step.

The band will close the program with music for a favorite American city and Tony Bennett’s theme song, I Left My Heart in San Francisco. This concert’s traditional John Philip Sousa march will be Solid Men to the Front.

General admission seating for all free concerts in the Municipal Band of Charlottesville’s 86th Annual Summer Concert Series will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis each concert night. Lobby doors will open at 7 pm. Seating will begin at 7:30.

One additional Tuesday concert in the Summer Series will take place on August 12.For more information about the Municipal Band of Charlottesville, please visit charlottesvillemunicipalband.org.