Stars, Stripes and Sousa
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Willilam Kenny leads the band in last year's "Stars Stripes and Sousa!" concert. (photo courtesy of |
Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 7:30 PM
Hear rousing marches, overtures, and solos as the band kicks off Union County's Fourth of July Celebration.
The award winning Penn Central Wind Band, under the direction of William Kenny, Conductor, presents its 10th annual Stars, Stripes, and Sousa!
Wednesday, June 25, 7:30 p.m.
Hufnagle Park, Lewisburg
(Rain Location: Weis Center for the Performing Arts)
The Penn Central Wind Band is an all-volunteer ensemble comprising approximately forty musicians. Bucknell sponsors the PCWB as a service to the region. Its members come from some twenty towns and cities from the surrounding area. More than thirty of the band's members hold music degrees, and many are active music teachers and professional performers. The band is a recipient of the Sudler Silver Scroll, awarded by the John Philip Sousa Foundation "recognizing community and adult concert bands of outstanding musical excellence." The PCWB presented its first concert during the summer of 1994, and has since performed many of the cornerstone works of the band repertoire: Lincolnshire Posy, the Holst suites, and Hindemith's Symphony in B flat-to name a few. The ensemble also draws upon great music from the Golden Age of the concert band, performing marches and orchestral transcriptions of such composers as Sousa, Suppé, Henry Fillmore, and Karl King. The band has performed for the conference of the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, and the national convention of the Association of Concert Bands. William Kenny, the band's conductor, is professor of music and associate dean of faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences at Bucknell.
The Penn Central Wind Band, decked out in red, white, and blue, performs "The Stars and Stripes Forever!" (photo courtesy of Barbara Krohn)
Concert sponsored by:
The Borough of Lewisburg's Music in the Parks Series
The Union County Veterans' 4th of July Committee
and
Bucknell University
