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Wheaton Municipal Band closes 2012 season indoors at Edman Chapel on August 11
The Wheaton Municipal Band moves indoors to Edman Chapel on the Wheaton College Campus to present its final concert of the 2012 summer season on Saturday, August 11 at 8PM.
The Wheaton Municipal Band moves indoors to Edman Chapel on the Wheaton College Campus to present its final concert of the 2012 summer season on Saturday, August 11 at 8PM. The acoustics of the indoor setting will give the audience the opportunity to really hear the quality of the ensemble, minus the ambient sounds of locusts, trains, and traffic that occasionally color the Memorial Park soundscape when the band plays outdoors.
The program includes The Dam Busters March by Eric Coates (recently heard at Olympics opening ceremony during the Queen’s helicopter scene with James Bond), and The Maker's Mark, by Ryan Nowlin which was commissioned by the Wheaton Municipal Band for Dr. Bruce Moss’s 30th anniversary as director of the band and has since been published and added to contemporary band literature.
Joining the band on the program is world-class euphonium virtuoso Dr. Benjamin Pierce. Pierce plays the velvety sounds of the euphonium like no other, and will amaze the audience with Concerto for Euphonium by David Gillingham and Napoli (Theme and Variations on Funiculi, Funicula) by Bellstadt.
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Pierce, a professor of music at the University of Arkansas, has won dozens of international tuba and euphonium artist competitions held in the United States, Japan, Germany, Finland, South Korea, England, and Italy. He frequently solos at home and abroad performing solo recitals and concerts with ensembles including the premier United States military bands, top American brass bands, and orchestras such as the Tokyo Symphony, Oulu Symphony (Finland), and Vogtland Philharmonie (Germany). Pierce has performed with the Detroit Symphony, the Detroit Chamber Brass, the Toledo Symphony, the Flint Symphony, and the Tulsa Symphony. He has served as principal tubist of the Ann Arbor Symphony and is principal tubist of SONA, formerly the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. He is a member of the acclaimed Brass Band of Battle Creek, featuring many of the world's greatest brass players. With the BBBC, he has performed on three different instruments.
Don’t miss this great FREE concert on Saturday August 11 at 8PM at Edman Chapel on the Wheaton College campus.
