Spring Concert 2008
New Holland Band Annual Spring
Concert
Sunday, March 9, 2pm
Lancaster Mennonite High School
Tickets available at the door
for $10 each
The title of this year's concert
will be "The Pilgrimage" commemorating the annual Memorial Day
pilgrimage the New Holland Band undertakes in cemeteries throughout
eastern Lancaster Co. in which it pays tribute to those who have paid
the ultimate price for our freedom. A special work has been arranged by
the music director and will be premiered at the concert.
Featured soloists
will be Mr. Frank Kaderabek, former Principal Trumpet of the
Philadelphia Orchestra, Dallas Symphony and Detroit Symphony and
Assistant Principal of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Kaderabek has
over 150 professional recordings to his credit and remains to be one of
the most inspiring, world-class trumpeters of our time. On the occasion
of his retirement from the Philadelphia Orchestra his family described
his sound well with a plaque on a park bench in Rittenhouse Square
directly across from the Curtis Institute of Music where he has taught
for over 30 year. It reads,
Mr. Frank Kaderabek, Principal
Trumpet
The Philadelphia Orchestra
a rare and beautiful
sound
Our second soloist is
one of our newest members, Mrs. Donna Cooper. Donna is a graduate of
North Western University and harpist par-excellance. She was employed
as a harpist at Disney World and later created the music program at
William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia and is now a free lance
player in the Philadelphia area. Her husband, Kevin, is the Director of
Music at Springfield High School (Delaware Co.) and their two girls, Lynsey
and Lauryn reside in Chester County.
Among works
programmed will be an overture composed for the U.S. Army Field Band, American
Overture for Band by
Joseph Jenkins, a several Sousa marches which, the Music Director
informs us, "must remain a surprise for our audience," Chabrier's tour-de-force, Rhapsody
Espagnol, Robert Jager's
spirited Espirit de
Corps, a tribute to Harry
James, Meredith Wilson's
The Music Man with
soloists Sherry Breton and Jeffrey Wilber and two powerful and moving
works which were John Zimmerman's favorites during his tenure as
Euphonium Soloist with
the President's Own,
U.S. Marine Band in Washington, D.C. John, of course, is the son of Sam
O. Zimmerman, revered conductor of the New Holland band following WW
II. Sam, Zimmerman Jr., the eldest brother is a frequent contributor to
the New Holland Band NEWSLETTER.
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