The Oshkosh Area Community Band will present
👉🏻 Spring Concert
🗓️ Saturday, March 21
⏰ 7:00 p.m.
📍 Alberta Kimball Auditorium at Oshkosh West High School
⏱️ It will last about one hour and forty-five minutes including an intermission.
💲 There is never an admission charged, although we do accept donations at the door.
The band will present a concert with the theme Celebrate America and will feature music by American composers or about noted Americans in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. 🇺🇸
This is the first of a series of 6 concerts that will cover the calendar year 2026. It is not a
comprehensive review, but it will be an attempt to highlight the wide variety of American citizens and influences on the culture of American music. 🎶 The band is led by Music Director David Berndt.
Infinite Hope by Brian Balmages is a featured composition. It was commissioned in honor of the 70th Anniversary of the Texas Bandmasters Association and was premiered by the United States Coast Guard Band in 2018. The title comes from a quote by Marin Luther King, Jr.: “We mus accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
Pixar Movie Magic has been enchanting us with their animated movies since 1995. The band will play a medley of tunes from some of their biggest movies including: The Incredibles; Up; Ratatouille; Cars; and
Toy Story.
Baritone saxophonist David Koepp, writing under the name Dean Davis, will conduct his own composition Too Deep For Tears based on the poem found in the novel of the same name by Kathryn Lynn Davis.
We honor those who have served America through participation in the military ranks when we perform Where Valor Proudly Sleeps by Robert Longfield. This composition was inspired by a visit to Arlington National Cemetery and is dedicated to the memory of the fallen soldiers. The title is taken from a poem
The Bivouac of the Dead by Theodore O’Hara in 1847, verses of which are featured on several placards near monuments throughout the cemetery. It was premiered in 1999.
The Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Assistant Music Director Jon Basten, will present a set of jazz tunes. Symphony in Riffs was written by Benny Carter, an American jazz musician who had a long career from the 1920s into the 1990s. He was especially known for his alto saxophone playing, and writing for the saxophone section.
Chevre! was written by Miami oboist and percussionist Michele Fernandez. It is in the style of a Cuban cha-cha.
Charles Ives, Leroy Anderson, Karl King, P.T. Barnum, and the Kentucky Derby are some of the composers or subjects that will be celebrated at this concert.
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