I'd like to invite you to a great band concert this Sunday, Nov. 8 at 3 PM in Russell Tripp Performance Center, located in Takena Hall, on the campus of Linn Benton Community College just south of Albany on Highway 99E. The free concert is the annual Veterans Day Patriotic Pops Concert with a theme of Popular Music of World Wars I and II. Featured guest soloists will be The Girls from Company B, a vocal trio of three young women who have music degrees from WOU, who specialize in the recreation of the sound and songs of the popular Andrews Sisters of the 1940's. The group will sing Rum and Coca Cola, Stardust and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. Selections from World War I will include a medley of popular songs from that era: Keep the Home Fires Burning , It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary and George M. Cohan's Over There. The band will also play Sabre and Spurs March and Willow Blossoms written by John Philip Sousa.
Music from the World War II era will include Victory at Sea by Richard Rodgers and The Homefront: Musical Memories from World War II. Also included will be In The Miller Mood, a medley of well known Glenn Miller Band tunes featuring a group of saxophones and clarinet in the Miller style. Also on the program will be Big Band Dixie featuring a small Dixieland combo playing tunes popular during WW I and II.
More traditional Veterans Day music will include: Eternal Father Strong to Save by Claude Smith, a stirring arrangement of the U.S.. Naval Hymn; Where Valor Proudly Sleeps, illustrating composer Robert Longfield's musical impressions of a visit to Arlington National Cemetery and American Anthem by Scheer, from the soundtrack to the Ken Burns TV documentary, The War, a history of WW II. There will also be a salute to membership of the U.S. Armed Forces with the playing of each of the branch's official songs.
The band will also play marches by Sousa and Alford including Stars and Stripes Forever.
The concert is sponsored by Russell and Duffy Tripp but donations will gladly be accepted after the concert to help continue the band's patriotic concerts that honor military veterans.
The Willamette Valley Concert Band, a community ensemble based in Albany, was formed in 1970. Its membership includes about 55 musicians ranging from teens to senior citizens from Benton, Linn, Marion and Polk counties.
The band director and assistant director are, respectively, Dr. Richard Sorenson, emeritus director of bands at WOU and Christine Barreto, a retired Lebanon music teacher.
Hope to see you at the concert.
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