The North Hennepin Community College and St. Cloud State University bands will perform a joint concert on Wednesday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m. at North Hennepin Community College Fine Arts Center Theatre in Brooklyn Park.
Presenting a program entitled “Marches for March,” each group will perform a variety of works for winds and percussion celebrating the anticipation of spring and all the warmth and energy it promises to bring.
The SCSU Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Catharine Bushman, will open the program with “Children’s March” by Percy Grainger. The lyrical” “Remember the Remarkables” by Grace Baugher and “Cafe 512” by Ryan George will follow. They will close with “Chavez, 1927” by Giovanni Santos.
The North Hennepin Concert Band, led by David Mantini, will perform a variety of marches, including “Cosmopolitan America” by Helen May Butler. During the 1904 Theodore Roosevelt election campaign, “Cosmopolitan America” was selected as the official march of the Republican Party. Butler’s band performed that year at the Republican National Convention. The march bears a dedication to her father, Lucius Marshall Butler, a railroad engineer who was instrumental in the design of early Pullman cars.
The bands will also combine to perform two selections, “His Honor March” by Henry Fillmore and “Sahuro from Little Mexican Suite” by Nubia Jaime Donjuan.
Admission is free and all are welcome. For more information, contact [email protected].
