Ridgewood Concert Band prides itself on the number of music educators in the group. Thank your local music teacher during the last few days of Music in Our Schools Month! #miosm #rcbnjws#keepingtheartsalive #thankyou #teachers — withJason Stier, Alison Meyer, Joseph Stella, Michelle McGuire, Dave Bychek, Jackie Sarracco, John J. Palatucci, Mark J. Donellan, Jeff Bittner, Chris Wilhjelm, Andre Baruch and Jen Wise.
Friday April 8th 8 pm ,West Side Presbyterian Church 6 South Monroe Street, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
7:00PM Pre- Concert Talk
Join us for a pre-concert talk to hear from award-winning broadcaster and author Robert Sherman as he shares a brief history of WQXR (including his own embarrassing pre-station stint as an Army bandsman) and reconnects with RCB Musician Rick Summers, who played on his program in 1972. (A recording of that broadcast can be heard here!)
7:30PM Prelude Concert
The Hackensack High School Band under the direction of Lisa MacVicar will perform the following program:
The Star Spangled Banner (arr. Jack Stamp)
English Folk Song Suite (Ralph Vaughn Williams)
Selections from Les Miserables (arr Warren Barker)
The Invincible Eagle (John Philip Sousa)
8:00PM Ridgewood Concert Band
The Ridgewood Concert Band (RCB), A New Jersey Wind Symphony, continues its 33rd season with a concert featuring a wide variety of music. Guest soloist Scott Hartman (trombone instructor at Yale University’s School of Music) will perform Gregory Fritze’s “Trombonico”. Also joining the RCB will be Robert Sherman, who will act as guest narrator on Vincent Persichetti’s “A Lincoln Address”. The program will also include Joseph Schwanter’s “Luminosity” and this concert’s featured “classic”: Richard Wagner’s “Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral”.
Tickets
Online Tickets can be purchased on the Ridgewood Concert Band website here..
At the Door
Tickets are available at the door the night of the concert.