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“Victors and Villains” Concert
Sunday
August 23, 2009
5:00 –
7:00pm
Pioneer
Park
corner of Park Avenue and Nimrod Street, Nevada City, CA
FREE
This is a terrific family concert that will appeal to all ages.
View
the program in PDF format.
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It’s time for the third and final 2009 Pioneer Park Picnic & Pops
Concert by Nevada County Concert Band (NCCB). This time the theme is “Victors and Villains,” held at
Pioneer Park in Nevada City on Sunday August 23, 2009 at 5:00 pm in the newly
painted band shell. The audience will be treated to Broadway tunes, popular songs,
classical favorites, movie classics, and more. The ”Go West” medley depicts the concert theme through the
Wild West period of American history with the good guys, the white hats,
marshals, and sheriffs or just plain honest citizen verses the bad guys, the
robbers, cheating gunfighters, and other banditos. This medley includes tunes from “The Magnificent Seven,”
“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, and “Hang ‘Em High.” The featured number will be “Rhapsody for Flute” by Stephan Bulla,
performed by our own very good flutist and band president Cathy Harding. It’s a surprisingly playful and jazzy
modern composition, that doesn’t follow with normal expectations. Instead it opts for a sneakier sound
at the beginning, a placid middle section, and a wonderfully heroic ending. |
But the program starts with a tribute to Michael Jackson with his
song “Bad,” and then continuing with the stormy number “A Night on Bald
Mountain” by Modest Mussorgsky which appeared in DIsney’s “Fantasia.” The band’s vocalist Sarah Pressler
will make it sound very good to be bad with “I Want to Be Evil,” a song made
famous by the sultry Eartha Kitt.
And don’t forget the soundtrack music from “Pirates of the Caribbean,”
plus a selection from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera.” And then there are those that waver between good and evil, as heard
in the Broadway show “Wicked” about what happened behind the scenes in the
land of Oz. Not only will there be phantoms, witches, cowboys, and pirates, but
some good guys too. “Mobbusters”
will remind you of the old radio shows’ mystery themes. The band will pay tribute to the rock
group, The Who, with a medley of tunes borrowed from the UC Berkeley “Cal
Band” for this concert which includes the theme from television’s “CSI.” And to see that good triumphs, the band will conclude with the
fast-paced military march from
“William Tell Overture” by Giacchino Rossini, which the audience is
sure to recognize as the theme music from the great American hero and victor,
the Lone Ranger. |
Come
to Pioneer Park early to enjoy your picnic dinner on the grass,
or treat yourself with goodies from the hot dog or ice cream vendors.
Bring your family and friends!
