Sunday, April 29, 2018

Waukesha Area Symphonic Band concert

The Nationally recognized Waukesha Area Symphonic Band will perform in concert on Friday May 4 at 7:30 PM in Shattuck Auditorium on the campus of Carroll University.  The concert is their first since being honored by the John Phillip Sousa Foundation as a winner of the Sudler Silver Scroll.  The Scroll is awarded to top North American community bands and is the highest award a community band can receive.

The program, entitled Flights of Fancy and Fantasy,  will feature works by Vaughan Williams, Frank Ticheli, Phillip Sparke, Erica Svanoe and Jaromir Weinberger.  The program will also feature trumpeter Matthew Kellen, winner of the WASB Concerto Competition.  Matthew will be performing a Donald Hunsberger arrangement of Le Carnival de Venise

The concert will benefit Waukesha's Adaptive Community Approach Program.  See their web site for the good things they do for the Waukesha Community. 

For more information on the concert, please see the WASB web site.

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