Plans to host classical music in the garden outside of the library has been cancelled for July 16th. Due to the threat of rain, the concert will not take place.
The annual event featuring one of the finest adult community bands in the nation will be rescheduled for later.
Hillcrest Concert Band has members ranging in age from teens to musicians in their 90s. They pride themselves on having a full complement of instruments represented which allows them to play all genres of music.
According to Music Director Greg Spangler, the concert will have something for everyone. The songs they will perform are:
Dmitri Shostakovich, trans. James Curnow: Waltz No. 2, from Suite for Variety Stage Orchestra No. 1 (c. 1956)
Ralph Vaughn Williams: Sea Songs (1923)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, trans. Frank Winterbottom: Children's Intermezzo from Othello (1911)
Ed Huckeby: Horn-A-Plenty (1990)
Charles Edward Duble: Bravura (1918)
Various, arr. Warren Barker: In the Miller Mood.
Andrew Lloyd Webber / Trevor Nunn (after T.S. Elliot), arr. Johnnie Vinson: Memory from Cats (1982)
Richard Rodgers / Oscar Hammerstein II, arr. Robert Russell Bennett: Sound of Music - Selections (1959)
As always, Hillcrest Concert Band will end the concert with their traditional performance of Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever. The new date for the concert will be announced soon.