Do not miss our final concert of this season!  This week will not only feature a variety of favorites, but will feature three members of the band on solo pieces!  Pack your lawn chairs, picnics, and the kids and join us at 7:30 tomorrow evening at Bever Park!

Come early to hear the Coe College Touring Band at 5:30 before they depart for the Czech Republic!

• The Star Spangled Banner, performed by Nathanael Smale, Prairie High School
• High School Cadets (John Philip Sousa)
• Finlandia (Jean Sibelius, arr. Cailliet)
• Big Band Signatures (arr. John Higgins)
• Concerto in C, Mvt. III (Antonio Vivaldi), featuring Margaret Kegel, piccolo
• Best of Carole King (arr. Johnnie Vinson)
• Under the Double Eagle (Josef Wagner)
• Reverie (Aleksandr Glazunov), featuring Dan Malloy, horn
• Cole Porter: A Symphonic Portrait for Band (arr. Wayne Robinson)
• Saxophrenia (Walter Hartley), featuring Bruce Western, alto saxophone
• They’re Off (Fred Jewell) 2.0
• The Cedar Rapids Song of Dedication, performed by Nathanael Smale, Prairie High School

Drive on out to West Branch Saturday night to hear us at Hooverfest!  We will put on another great concert concluding with a fireworks display.  Concert starts at 8:30PM!

Hooverfest program:

• High School Cadets (John Philip Sousa)
• Finlandia (Jean Sibelius, arr. Cailliet)
• Symphonic Highlights From “Frozen” (arr. Stephen Bulla)
• Big Band Signatures (arr. John Higgins)
• Best of Carole King (arr. Johnnie Vinson)
• Under the Double Eagle (Josef Wagner)
• Cole Porter: A Symphonic Portrait for Band (arr. Wayne Robinson)
• Hooray for Hollywood (arr. Warren Barker)
• They’re Off (Fred Jewell)

FIREWORKS

American Salute (Morton Gould, arr. Philip Lang)
The Wizard of Oz (Arlen & Harburg, arr. James Barnes)
Star Wars – The Marches (John Williams, arr. Jerry Brubaker)
Stars and Stripes Forever (John Philip Sousa)

Join us for the final week of this summer season!  This week will not only feature a variety of favorites, but will feature three members of the band on solo pieces!  Pack your lawn chairs, picnics, and the kids and join us at 7:30 tomorrow evening at Taft!

• The Star Spangled Banner, performed by Nathanael Smale, Prairie High School
• High School Cadets (John Philip Sousa)
• Finlandia (Jean Sibelius, arr. Cailliet)
• Big Band Signatures (arr. John Higgins)
• Concerto in C, Mvt. III (Antonio Vivaldi), featuring Margaret Kegel, piccolo
• Best of Carole King (arr. Johnnie Vinson)
• Under the Double Eagle (Josef Wagner)
• Reverie (Aleksandr Glazunov), featuring Dan Malloy, horn
• Cole Porter: A Symphonic Portrait for Band (arr. Wayne Robinson)
• Saxophrenia (Walter Hartley), featuring Bruce Western, alto saxophone
• They’re Off (Fred Jewell) 2.0
• The Cedar Rapids Song of Dedication, performed by Nathanael Smale, Prairie High School

Join us this Sunday at Ellis Park at 7:30 or come early at 6:30 to hear the Cedar Rapids Youth Flute Ensemble.  This week offers a number of audience favorites.  We will feature our Young Artist Competition winner, Evan Brown, on horn and music from “Frozen,” and many more.  Make a night of it and bring your picnic, frisbee, and the kids!

This week’s program:

There are only two Sunday concerts left of this season!  Join us this Sunday at Ellis Park at 7:30 or come early at 6:30 to hear the Cedar Rapids Youth Flute Ensemble.  This week is the perfect week to bring the kids!  We will feature our Young Artist Competition winner, Evan Brown, on horn and music from “Frozen” along with other favorites!

This week’s program:

Hey! Really want to hear us tonight, but can’t make it out to Bever Park? Tune in to KMRY Radio (93.1 FM, 1450 AM) at 7:30 and catch us live on the air!

You’ll even catch a bonus feature with our conductor, Steve Shanley!

This Wednesday’s concert will be held at BEVER park, not Bowman Woods as originally scheduled!  This week is the perfect week to bring the kids!  We will feature our Young Artist Competition winner, Evan Brown, on horn and music from “Frozen” along with other favorites!

If you can’t make it out tonight, join us Sunday at Ellis Park, where we’ll have a prelude concert at 6:30 by the Cedar Rapids Youth Flute Ensemble.

This week’s program:

This Wednesday’s concert will be held at BEVER park, not Bowman Woods as originally scheduled!  This was changed due to the construction on Boyson Road.  Please join us at 7:30 at Bever for another great concert and this week would be a great one for the kids!  We will feature our Young Artist Competition winner, Evan Brown, on horn and music from “Frozen” along with other favorites!  Pack your lawn chairs and picnic for a beautiful summer night concert!

This week honors Cedar Rapids’  Czech heritage with a few Czech-inspired pieces!  Orchestra Iowa conductor Tim Hankewich will join us as a guest conductor along with the CRMB Young Artist Competition Runner-Up Lexi Forstrom on alto sax.  Concert begins at 7:30!

• The Star Spangled Banner, performed by Emma Deignan, Xavier High School
• Slavonic Dance No. 1  (Antonin Dvorak, arr. Tobani)
• The Gladiator  (John Philip Sousa)
• The Pines of the Appian Way (Ottorino Respighi, arr. dElia & Leizden)  Featuring Tim Hankewich, Conductor (http://www.orchestraiowa.org/Orchestra/Conductor/1/Timothy-Hankewich.aspx)
• Barbara Polka (F. Kovarik)
• Selections from “Sweeney Todd” (Stephen Sondheim, arr. Bulla) 
• Fantasia for Alto Saxophone (Claude T. Smith)                                    Featuring CRMB Young Artist Competition Runner-Up Lexi Forstrom, Alto Saxophone
• Big Band Tribute (arr. John Wasson) Olympia Hippodrome (Russell Alexander)
• Cedar Rapids Song of Dedication, performed by Emma Deignan, Xavier High School