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KING BAND INDOOR CONCERT APRIL
21st :
The
third and final indoor concert for the 2024 season by the Karl L. King
Municipal Band will be held on Sunday afternoon, April 21st, beginning
at 3:30 p.m. in the Fort Dodge Middle School Auditorium, located at 800
North 32nd Street in Fort Dodge, Iowa. There is no admission
charge, with these concerts being provided by the City of Fort Dodge for
everyone’s enjoyment. Conductor Jerrold P. Jimmerson has once
again planned an enjoyable program of band music. Dan Cassady
serves as the Assistant Conductor of the band, and Paul Bloomquist will
be the band’s announcer.
Compositions
by the band’s namesake, Karl L. King, on this hour-long concert will include
his marches, Garland Entrée, and Drake Relays, King’s
intermezzo, In A Moonlit Garden, and his exciting circus galop,
Eclipse.
The afternoon’s classical offering
features Austrian composer Franz von Suppe’s overture, Jolly Robbers.
Although not as well-known as some of his other compositions like The
Light Cavalry or Poet and Peasant, this overture is colorful,
robust and descriptive of Suppe’s creative style, making it a delight for
performers and audiences alike.
Also included on the program
will be John Philip Sousa’s tribute to baseball, The National Game March,
and Sousa’s arrangement of English composer Percy Grainger’s Country
Gardens. The first movement from the English Folk Song
Suite by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, titled March: Seventeen Come
Sunday, is included on this concert as well.
The sounds of classic Hollywood
movies will round out the afternoon’s program. Music from 11
different movies will be combined into one Warren Barker medley, titled
Hooray
for Hollywood, featuring music from such well-known composers as George
Gershwin, Johnny Mercer, Henry Mancini, Maurice Jarre, and others.
Conductor Jimmerson says, “See how many of these theme songs you can remember!”
This
April concert is always the Band’s annual scholarship event, with the presentation
of the Karl L. King Memorial Scholarships. Talented students
audition earlier that day, and the winners will be recognized that afternoon
with either $500 scholarships to Iowa Central Community College or a $1,000
scholarship to any 4-year Iowa college or university.
Providing the funds for these
scholarships is the Karl L. King Memorial
Education Foundation, which exists to provide band instrument scholarships
for students majoring in music. All persons who audition will
be invited to join in playing one selection with the Band during the concert,
and the major scholarship recipient will perform their award-winning solo
during the program.
All
concerts conclude in the traditional way with the playing of our National
Anthem, The Star-
Spangled Banner.
In case of inclement weather (even though it will be on April 21st), the
concert
may be cancelled.
This concert may even be cancelled on concert day.
Any announcements will be made
on this page or on the band’s Facebook page (see link above).
Looking
ahead, the next performance by the band will
be at the traditional Memorial Day ceremonies on Monday morning,
May 27th, at Veteran’s Memorial Park. The summer series
of concerts are scheduled to be held again on eight Sunday evenings during
June and July, beginning June 9th, and lasting through July 28th, at the
Karl
L. King Band Shell in Oleson Park.
The Karl L. King Municipal Band of Fort Dodge is
seen during a practice session
before taking the stage.
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