Bring your friends and family (and your lawn chairs or blankets) out to The History Center (Wednesday, June 5) or Bever Park (Sunday, June 9) for the first concert of the 2024 Cedar Rapids Municipal Band season!
Highlights will include music from Encanto; an Eighties Flashback (Thriller! You Give Love a Bad Name! Eye of the Tiger!); the amazing David Lang on euphonium; marches by Frank Piersol, John Philip Sousa, and Karl King; and a clarinet feature you won’t want to miss.
Music starts at 7:30 each evening. On Sunday, join us at 6:30 p.m. for a performance featuring the Cedar Rapids Metro Youth Wind Ensemble ahead of the Muni Band’s concert.
Carlie Robertson of Prairie High School will perform the Star Spangled Banner and the Cedar Rapids Song of Dedication with the band.
Conductor Steve Shanley definitely has the eye of the tiger!
PROGRAM:
Five Seasons (Frank Piersol)
Overture to “Candide” (Leonard Bernstein, arranged by Clare Grundman)
Selections from “Encanto” (Lin-Manuel Miranda, arr. Paul Murtha)
The Green Hill (Bert Appermont) ft. David Lang, Euphonium
Clarinet Candy (Leroy Anderson)
The Old Boatman (Florence Price, arr. Dana Perna)
Semper Fidelis (John Philip Sousa)
Eighties Flashback (arr. Paul Murtha)
Rough Riders (Karl King, arranged by James Swearingen)
