The Wheaton Municipal Band Presents Band Classics

Hold on to your hats! The Wheaton Municipal Band concert on Thursday, June 15 at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Park in downtown Wheaton is chocked full of some of the best band repertoire ever written. The clarinets and flutes are razor focused with fingers flying on some very challenging passages. The brass are already limbering up their lips to play the high notes that the music requires. But the audience need only sit back and relax and enjoy the beautiful music.

Music Director, Dr. Bruce Moss, programmed an evening of exciting classic literature by some of the great composers of music for Concert Band. Featured is the music of Percy Granger: The Immovable Do and the full composition-Lincolnshire Posy. The lilting melodies and crazy fast passages make this piece an all time favorite. Sea Songs by Ralph Vaughn Williams creates a mystical backdrop and contrasts well against some of the wildly fast music. Not that the musicians get a break. The slow passages in music can be more challenging than the fast ones. The demands for perfect tone, dynamics and intonation are strenuous. Also on the program, is Scenes from the Louve by Norman Dello Joio. Dello Joio won an Emmy for this score to the television documentary A Golden Prison: The Louve. The documentary tells the history of the Louve and it's world-class art collection. Dello Joio uses music from the Renaissance to match the historical elements of the film and create this amazing music.

This week also features two bassoon players from the band's woodwind section: Vicki Long and Rico Vasquez, performing a duet-Variations on Silver Thread Among the Gold by Michael Campbell. Enjoy this rare opportunity to hear two virtuosic bassoons with concert Band.

Don't miss week two of the Wheaton Municipal Band's 2017 concert season, on Thursday, June 15 at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Park in downtown Wheaton. For more information, go to the webpage at

http://www.wheatonmunicipalband.org