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Last Municipal Band concert of season set

From Staff Reports

MICHIGAN CITY - Michigan City Municipal Band will present its final free concert of the season at 8 p.m. Thursday at Washington Park's Guy F. Foreman Bicentennial Amphitheatre.

Appearing with the band is soprano Donna Mitchell, a choral and drama director for 30 years serving the New Prairie United School Corp. and La Porte Community Schools Corp. She is the choral director at New Prairie Middle School. She was the founder of the New Song Praise Choir at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Michigan City, where she is a member of its New Song Praise Choir, Hand Bell Choir and Senior Choir.

Mitchell will perform "Hello Young Lovers" from the musical "The King & I" and "Love Is Where You Find It" from the film "The Kissing Bandit." Both were arranged by Director Emeritus Guy Foreman.

Rick Carlson, principal trumpet of the band, will perform "A Trumpeter's Prayer" by Tutti Camarata and arranged by T.W. Swayzee.

The band, directed by Richard D'Arcangelis, will perform a variety of music, including: "Thunder and Blazes March," by Julius Fucik; "Light Calvary Overture," by F. von Suppe; "Italian Polka," by Sergei Rachmaninoff; "Music from O Brother, Where Art Thou," arranged by Michael Brown; "The Sound of Music," by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; "Jump Swing Fever," arranged by John Wasson; "In Storm and Sunshine," by John Clifford Heed; and "The Star Spangled Banner," by Francis Scott Key and John S. Smith.