The Cottonwood Community Band, under the direction of Dr. Sy Brandon, will be performing two free May concerts featuring music from stage and screen.
The concerts will be held Sunday, May 5, at the Phillip England Center for the Performing Arts in Camp Verde, and Sunday, May 19, at the Mingus Union High School auditorium. Both concerts begin at 3 p.m. and last for just over an hour.
The program is made up of some of America’s best loved and most widely-known music from favorite Hollywood movies and Broadway shows.
The band will open with “Girl Crazy,” a 1930 Broadway show with music by George Gershwin. Next up will be the beautiful “Lara’s Theme” from the Oscar-winning film “Doctor Zhivago.” A medley of tunes from another Oscar-winner “Fiddler on the Roof” is up next followed by a beautiful saxophone solo by Yancey Valdez of the song “Someone To Watch Over Me,” which was featured in the 1926 Broadway play “Oh, Kay!” Lerner and Lowe’s 1960 classic “Camelot” is set in the days of King Arthur and the band will play a selection of music from that production under the direction of Neil Manzenberger, the band’s assistant conductor. There will also be a Cartoon Carnival medley with music from some animated classics. The concerts will finish with the moving music from Les Misérables to close the shows.
Both concerts are free of charge and open to the public. Come spend an afternoon listening to great music performed by neighbors in the community.
Visit CottonwoodCommunityBand. org for more information.
