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Michigan City Municipal Band · 53 like this
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The Michigan City Municipal Band will present its sixth concert of the 2013 series of summer concerts this Thursday evening July 11th at 7:30pm. The concerts will be held in Washington Park at the Guy F. Foreman Bicentennial Amphitheater in Michigan City. For those attending the concerts, parking on Lake Shore Drive is prohibited. Parking will be available in the parking lots closest to the amphitheater, and the Senior Center. If you have a Michigan City Park Sticker entrance to the park is free; otherwise there is a small parking fee.

Appearing with the band will be “Metamorphis Traveling Theatre.” Metamorphis Traveling Theatre is an outreach branch of Acting Theatre of Michigan City which is making its 35th appearance with the Michigan City Municipal Band. They will perform a melodramatic pantomime which brings to life Robert Service’s poem, “The Shooting of Dan McGrew,” set to “Orpheus Overture,” by Jacques Offenbach.

The MTT latest performances included “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the International Friendship Gardens and “The Queens” at Barker Hall.

Appearing in the concert will be: Doug Moon “Dan McGrew”; Kim Riley “the Lady Known as Lou”; Don Peiffer “the Stranger”; Dan Chartier “the Miner”; Rosanne Miller and Helen Williams, “the Dance Hall Girls” Sarah Murray “Jagtime Boy”; Tiffany Bowe “the Professional Lady”; Jeanoma Babcock “the Church Lady”. Judith Joseph will narrate.

Also appearing with the band is Quincy Ford, alto saxophone soloist. Quincy Ford is employed as a music teacher with the Michigan City Area Schools Corporation. Currently he is the Director of Bands at Michigan City High School. Majoring in Saxophone, Quincy earned a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Music Education from Defiance College in Defiance Ohio and his Masters in Music Education from Indiana University at South Bend.

In addition to being a member of the Michigan City Municipal Band, Quincy plays with The Tom Milo and Crossroads Big Bands. He has performed with The South Bend, LaPorte and Southwest Michigan Orchestras, Windiana Concert Band, and LaPorte City Band. He is active in the music department at his church and continues to perform as a freelance musician throughout Northwest Indiana, Northern Illinois and Southwest Michigan. Quincy lives in Michigan City with his wife Diana and two daughters, Katherine and Shelby.

Mr. Ford will perform “Fantasia for Alto Saxophone” by Claude T. Smith.

The band, directed Richard D’Arcangelis, will perform a variety of music including: “The Black Horse Troop March,” by John Philip Sousa; “Procession of the Nobles,” by Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov; “Fantasia for Alto Saxophone,” by Claude T. Smith; “First Swedish Rhapsody,” by Erik Leidzen; “Bolero Espanol,” by Ernesto Lecouna; “Orpheus Overture,” by Jacques Offenbach; “Raiders of the Lost Ark Medley,” by John Williams arranged by Jack Bullock; “Selections from Chicago,” by Fred Ebb and John Kander arranged by Ted Ricketts; “National Emblem March,” by Eugene Bagley, and “The Star Spangled Banner,” by Francis Scott Key and John S. Smith.

The announcer for the band is Rick Carlson.

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The Michigan City Municipal Band will present its seventh concert of the 2013 series of summer concerts this Thursday evening July 18th at 7:30pm. The concert will be held in Washington Park at the Guy F. Foreman Bicentennial Amphitheatre in Michigan City. For those attending the concerts, parking on Lake Shore Drive is prohibited. Parking will be available in the parking lots closest to the amphitheater, and the Senior Center. If you have a Michigan City Park Sticker entrance to the park is free; otherwise there is a small parking fee.



Appearing with the band is Sarah Miller, soprano. Ms. Miller resides in Bloomington, IN. She has earned a degree in Music Education and Conducting from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. While attending Indiana University Sarah performed nationwide with the Indiana University Singing Hoosiers. She has sung the “Star Spangled Banner,” at several Pacers games. Sarah has also performed with the group at the Inaugural Ball in Washington, DC.



Sarah is currently the choral director at Bloomington North High School and the director of the Indiana University Children’s Choir. This will be the third year she has sung with the Michigan City Municipal Band.



Ms. Miller will perform “Moon River,” by Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini and “River Deep-Mountain High,” by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, and Phil Spector. Both of these selections were arranged for the Michigan City Municipal Band by Jerry Lackey.



The band, directed Richard D’Arcangelis, will perform a variety of music including: “The Army of the Nile,” by Kenneth J. Alford; “La Gazza Ladra Overture” by Gioacchino Rossini; “March and Procession of Bacchus,” by Leo Delibes; “Thunder and Lightning Polka,” by Johann Strauss; “Music from O Brother, Where Art Thou?” arranged by Michael Brown; “Summer of ’69: The Music of Woodstock,” arranged by Ted Ricketts; “From Tropic to Tropic March,” by Russell Alexander; and “The Star Spangled Banner,” by Francis Scott Key and John S. Smith.


The announcer for the band is Rick Carlson.

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Michigan City Municipal Band · 53 like this
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And for our last concert of the season...an exciting concert! Hope to see you there! Please share the word....

The Michigan City Municipal Band will present its final concert of the 2013 summer series of concerts this Thursday evening August 8th at 7:30pm. The concert will be held in Washington Park at the Guy F. Foreman Bicentennial Amphitheatre in Michigan City. For those attending the concerts, parking on Lake Shore Drive is prohibited. Parking will be available in the parking lots closest to the amphitheater, and the Senior Center. If you have a Michigan City Park Sticker entrance to the park is free; otherwise there is a small parking fee.



Guest conductor for the evening concert will be Jeffrey Scott Doebler. Dr. Doebler has served as director of music education and bands at Valparaiso University since 1992, following ten years of teaching in the public schools of Emmetsburg, Iowa, and Shakopee, Minnesota. He earned degrees in music education from Luther College (B.A.), Valparaiso University (M.M.), and the University of Minnesota (Ph.D.). His 31-year career in music education has achieved a unique balance of conducting, teacher preparation, leadership, and working with musicians from the beginning through professional levels, but all aspects of his vocation have had an ultimate focus on teaching. He has been recognized for teaching excellence by peers, colleagues and students, including awards from the Indiana Music Educators Association (IMEA), Valparaiso University, Luther College, Sigma Alpha Iota, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and the Confucius Institute. In a typical year, Dr. Doebler works with over 3000 students. He has appeared professionally in over 25 states, Canada, Malta, Australia, New Zealand, and China, conducted the Indiana All-State Band in 2011, and will conduct the Indiana Junior All-State Band in 2014. Dr. Doebler is a former president of IMEA, and currently serves as state editor. He is president of the Indiana Bandmasters Association. Dr. Doebler is founder of a professional-level concert band, Windiana, which has toured China annually since 2006, and has also toured Australia and New Zealand. Windiana performed for the national convention of the Association of Concert Bands in 2011. Dr. Doebler also serves as concert band conductor for Lutheran Summer Music, the national Lutheran high school music camp.



Dr. Doebler will conduct “American Civil War Fantasy,” by Jerry H. Bilik.



The band, directed by Richard D’Arcangelis, will perform a variety of music including: “Valdres,” by Johannes Hanssen; “American Civil War Fantasy,” by Jerry Bilik; “Themes Like Old Times III,” arranged by Warren Barker; “The Rakes of Mallow,” by Leroy Anderson; “The Fifties,” arranged by Paul Jennings; “Space and Beyond,” arranged by John Moss; “Benny Goodman: The King of Swing,” arranged by Paul Murtha; “Old Comrades,” by Carl Teike edited by John R. Bourgeois; and “The Star Spangled Banner,” by Francis Scott Key and John S. Smith.

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That Doebler guy is pretty good. He was a conductor for the All Region Honor Band and managed to get over 100 7th, 8th, and 9th grade kids from all over northwest Indiana together in 6 hours to play a concert the next day. And it was perfect.