Southern Oregon Concert Band Presents: The Spirit of America
Southern Oregon Concert Band Presents: The Spirit of America
Join SOCB as we celebrate America and our Veterans, who have served to preserve the freedoms we cherish in these United States. Included on the program are “Armed Forces Salute” arranged by Robert Lowden, “America the Beautiful” arranged by Carmen Dragon; there are three Marches on the Program: “Americans We” by Henery Fillmore, “Hail to the Spirit of Liberty” by Sousa and “The Spirit of Liberty” by Sammy Nestico. We remember our Vietnam Vets with music of their era “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” Medley. Also on the program are “American Civil War Fantasy” by Jerry H Bilik, “…has ingeniously woven together fragments of well-known melodies of the era, vividly depicting the anticipation of war, the devastation of battle, and the emergence of a healing nation, strong and united” and “Freedom Road” by James Curnow; a musical depiction of the hard and often wrought with struggle that is the Freedom Road.