Holiday Concert
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Community Church of Rolling Meadows, 2720 Kirchoff Road, Rolling Meadows, Illinois
The band presents its annual holiday concert with a wide selection of seasonal favorites. This performance is FREE. All are welcome.
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The Northwest Concert Band announces its exciting fall concert "A Gershwin Fantasy and Beyond!" on Sunday, November 12, at 3:00 PM. Join us for an afternoon of music ranging from the Swing Era to symphonic specialties. Several selections highlight soloists from the band. Enjoy “A Gershwin Fantasy” featuring the saxophone section of Brian Miastro, Arlene Felt, Cary Hollander, and Bill White. The trumpet section with Matthew Bain, Calvin Boesch, A.C. Buehler, Phil Crail, Mike Golden, Lee Goldstein, John Hanssen, and Mike Madonia swing “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”. Sylvia Phillips enchants us with “Gabriel’s Oboe”. Typist Joan Rogers pecks away on “The Typewriter.” Other selections include “Variations on a Theme of Robert Schuman”, “Hebrides Suites”, “Lake Geneva Celebration”, “Rondo from Prelude, Siciliano”, and “Hopak from The Fair at Sorochyntsi.” Randy Steinberg, the band’s longtime conductor, leads the band. He is also a respected composer who arranged several of the pieces being performed. The Illinois Arts Council Agency provides financial support to the band.
The concert is at John G. Conyers Learning Academy, 2800 West Central Road, Rolling Meadows. Tickets are required and sold only at the performance. Admission is $10 for adults and children 18 and younger are free. Program and ticket sales to be announced. Children 18 and younger are free.
Save this date for our spring concert. Details to be announced.
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The band performs proudly at the Community Church of Rolling Meadows' annual Cornfest.
Fantasy and Adventure
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Community Church of Rolling Meadows, 2720 Kirchoff Road, Rolling Meadows, Illinois
Please bring your own chairs.
Old-time Band Concert in the Park
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Community Church of Rolling Meadows, 2720 Kirchoff Road, Rolling Meadows, Illinois
Please bring your own chairs.
Patriotic Spectacular and Bake Sale
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Community Church of Rolling Meadows, 2720 Kirchoff Road, Rolling Meadows, Illinois
Our summer bake sale is tonight. All items are only $5.
Please bring your own chairs.
Show tunes and movies
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Community Church of Rolling Meadows, 2720 Kirchoff Road, Rolling Meadows, Illinois
Show tunes and movies. Please bring your own chairs.
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The Northwest Concert Band invites you to our spring concert. The program will consist of music from Hollywood and Broadway, several pieces showcasing brass players as soloists, and band favorites.
Olympic Fanfare And Theme
Titanic Medley
Fantasy For Euphonium And Concert Band
Variations On A Korean Folk Song
Music From Braveheart
Selections from The Wiz
Pirates Of The Caribbean Medley-
Can't Stop Lovin' You
Tubby The Tuba
Mannin Veen “Dear Isle of Mann”
The Northwest Concert Band is delighted to welcome everyone to our first spring concert in two years. Please join us for an afternoon of great music written or arranged for band.
The Ukrainian anthem The concert march Where the Black Hawk Soars In the First Light, in memory of Sean Reilly, son of clarinetist Jean Reilly. Composed by Randy Steinberg. Highlights from the musical The Music Man A suite of John Williams' music for the movie The Cowboy and the Cowgirl Fanfare and Call to the Post Symphonic highlights from Frozen Galop from Kabalevsky's The Comedians The symphonic suite Robin Hood Bandwagon
Tickets are $7 and are available at the door. Children 18 or younger are free.
Join us for a delightful hour of Christmas favorites. Tickets are available only at the door. Adults are $7 and children under 12 are free.
Join us for a delightful hour of Christmas favorites. Tickets are available only at the door. Adults are $7 and children under 12 are free.
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The Northwest Concert Band proudly presents its annual Holiday concert featuring old and new seasonal favorites in old and new arrangements. This one-hour concert is a free event.
Fanfare for Christmas
Do You Hear What I Hear
Fantasia on a 13th Century Carol
Lo How a Rose E’Er Blooming
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Stille Stille Stille
A Kwanzaa Celebration
Christmas Festival (led by 2 vocalists)
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Our fall concert is in memory of the band's founder and long-time conductor, Ralph Wilder. Tickets are $7 and children 18 and younger are free. Available at the door only.
Program
Festival Prelude – Alfred Reed
Pavanne – Morton Gould
Skylark – Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael
Vocalist Leah Novak and pianist Allan Kaye
Montage (Tribute to Ralph Wilder) – Randy Steinberg
The Lion King – Elton John, Tim Rice, and Hans Zimmer
Strike Up the Band – George and Ira Gershwin
Incantation and Dance – John Barnes Chance
Straighten Up and Fly Right – Nat King Cole
Vocalist Leah Novak and pianist Allan Kaye
Chorale and Shaker Dance – John Zdechlik
Amber Waves of Grain – James Curnow
Benediction – John Stevens
Clarinet Soloist: Greg Mullen