Saturday, October 3, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Caruthers Fairgrounds
(Admission is Free - No ticket required.)
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Experience the sights and sounds — and the FCCB in its fourth appearance — at this unique hometown fair in Caruthers, CA. Hear the music of Leroy Anderson, Meredith Willson, John Philip Sousa and a special salute to our Armed Forces arranged by Bob Lowden. Come and enjoy!
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
3:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
Fresno City College Theatre (map)
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Enjoy a musical trip around the world without paying those high travel costs! Join the band as it “travels” to Austria (“Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna” by Franz von Suppe), Germany (“Tannhauser March” by Richard Wagner), Great Britain (a suite of music by English opera creators Gilbert and Sullivan), France (“Selections from Les Miserables”), Spain (“Gallito” a Spanish march), America (“Hands Across the Sea” by John Philip Sousa) and more!
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Sunday, December 6, 2009
3:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
The Tower Theatre for the Performing Arts
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Guest Artist: Fresno City College Choir, Julie Dana, Director
Celebrate the holidays with the band as they present this concert of sacred and secular music. Among the selections you will hear are “A Christmas Greeting” by John Cheetham, “March of the Toys” by Victor Herbert and “Carol of the Shepherds” by Phillip Sparke as well as works for both band and choir featuring the Fresno City College Choir. Band and choir together will perform several traditional carols plus Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” several traditional carols and an excerpt from Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio”. You will also be invited to participate in the band’s traditional carol sing-a-long!
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
3:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
Fresno City College Theatre (map)
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Guest Artist: Dale Engstrom, Conductor
Guest Artist: Katie Engstrom, Vocalist
Someone scheduled the Super Bowl later than usual!! So even though this concert is not being performed on Super Bowl weekend, we thought it best to continue our tradition of “Super Concerts!” Please note this concert is on our usual Sunday.
This concert will be a super concert filled with super music as the band performs works like “Psalm” by Vincent Persichetti, “La Danza” by Rossini and the usual Sousa march. We welcome Dale Engstrom, Fresno City College Director of Bands who will conduct “Lord, Guard and Guide” by well-known band composer Robert Jager and “Sterling Brass” march by James Barnes. We also welcome his daughter Katie Engstrom who will sing “God Bless the Child,” “For Once in My Life” and “Orange Colored Sky.”
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The Band will be playing a special repeat performance of “Super Concert IV” on Thursday, February 4, 2010 at the Kingsburg High School Theatre to benefit the Kingsburg High School Music Program.
For tickets call 897-7402
Note: This special fundraising event is not included in the price of the season tickets.
Click here for more info …
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
3:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
Fresno City College Theatre (map)
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Guest Artist: Barry Holm, Horn
Plain and simple is not what this concert is all about! Programmed are challenging selections with intriguing rhythms. Band members love to play them; audiences love to hear them! Music consists of “Danza Finale” by Alberto Ginastera, “Berceuse” and “Finale” from Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky and “Ye banks and braes o bonnie doon” by Percy Grainger. Other composers represented will be Leonard Bernstein, John Barnes Chance and, of course, Sousa. A unique feature of this concert will be a “body percussion” piece, “Rock Trap” by William Schenstein.
It is also a pleasure to present the band’s principal Horn player, Barry Holm as soloist in the first movement of the challenging “Horn Concerto No. 1” by Richard Strauss.
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
3:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
The Tower Theatre for the Performing Arts
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Guest Artist: Dr. Lawrence Sutherland, Conductor
Join us in our annual concert for Memorial Day as we salute all the men and women in our Armed Forces through music. For this special concert we welcome Dr. Lawrence Sutherland, retired Director of Bands at California State University, Fresno. Dr. Sutherland is internationally known for his work at CSU, Fresno and with honor bands, orchestras and jazz ensembles. He will conduct Morton Gould’s “American Salute” and the brilliant march, “Americans We” by Henry Fillmore.
The concert will open with “In Praise of Freedom” an exciting fanfare by Warren Barker. Other works to be performed include “By Dawn’s Early Light” by Jay Dawson and a brilliant setting of “Battle Hymn of the Republic” by Claude T. Smith. This is a concert sure to remind us all of the freedom we enjoy and the men and women who fought for it.
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