Date: Sunday, July 4^th

Event: Terre Haute Community Band Concert—4^th of July Celebration

Where: Fairbanks Park, Terre Haute IN

Time: 8:00 p.m.

Contact: James Chesterson

812-535-6440

8112-243-2581

You are invited to be part of the big Fourth of July celebration at Fairbanks Park! Music, fireworks, food vendors, and celebrities from our historical past will gather for a fun filled evening of celebration. Activities will begin at 8:00 p.m. with the presentation of our national colors by VFW Post #972. The Terre Haute Community Band will then take the stage to present “Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and the 4^th of July”, a selection of music that will stir the heart, get toes tapping and evoke memories of the past. Mayor Duke Bennett will welcome the audience and the program will be emceed by James Chesterson, THCB Board President.

Civil War Re-enactors representing the Civil War Indiana Volunteers will be present to talk with people and provide photo opportunities. Children can have their faces painted and the Parks Department will be selling glow products to add to the evening’s entertainment. Food Vendors will be on hand to provide a variety of food options. You might even choose a hot dog or apple treat to ft the theme of the evening. The fireworks extravaganza will follow as soon as it gets dark!

The music selected for the celebration includes such standards as Sousa marches and the ever popular “Armed Forces Salute”. Those in the audience who can recall the World War II years will enjoy “Homefront” Musical Memories from WW II.” Many people will also remember the Lee Greenwood composition “God Bless the USA”.

James Curnow has intertwined his own thematic material with fragments of ‘America the Beautiful’ to create an interesting piece, “Amber Waves of Grain”. “American Soldier” by Francis A. Myers was composed as both a march and a two-step and was published in 1907. It has also become a jazz standard and is sometimes known as the “Bugle Boy March”. “Pastime” by Jack “Stamp salutes baseball history and that anthem of the seventh inning stretch, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”

“Gettysburg: the Third Day” is considered a concert tone poem: a piece of orchestral music that reflects on a poem, a book, a painting or in this case an historical event, the Civil War. “The Midway March” by John Williams is from the film “Midway” that chronicles a turning point in World War II in the Pacific. “The World Turned Upside Down” recalls the day the British troops surrendered at Yorktown. “On the Banks of the Wabash” by Paul Dresser brings the band and the audience back home.

All THCB concerts are free and held in Fairbanks Park. The Conductor of the Terre Haute Community Band is Yvonne Newlin. The Summer Concert Series is sponsored by the Terre Haute Parks & Recreation Department. The band appreciates the grants received from the City of Terre Haute, Arts Illiana and a media sponsorship with WFIU Radio. For further information please contact the Terre Haute Community Band office at St. Mary of the Woods College, 812-535-6440 or our web page www.terrehautecommunityband.org.

4^th of July – Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and the 4^th of July (songs will be selected from the following list)

Amber Waves of Grain – James Curnow

American Folk Suite – Concert Suite 1. Across the Wide Missouri, 2. The Erie Canal, 3. Black is the Colour of My True Love’s Hair, 4. Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo – Harold L. Walters

American Soldier March – Francis A. Myers

An American Elegy – Frank Ticheli

Anchor & Star March – John Philip Sousa

Armed Forces Salute – Service Song Medley – (Arr. Bob Lowden)

Commando March – Samuel Barber (Arr. Anderson R. Colinsworth

French Republic La Marseillaise (French National Anthem) J. Claude Rouget de L’isl

Fugue on Yankee Doodle – John Philip Sousa (Arr. Kieth Brion & Loras Schissel

Gettysburg: The Third Day – Jay Dawson

Homefront: Musical Memories of WW II – Medley 1. It’s Been a Long, Long time, 2. Thanks for the Memories, 3. Bell Bottom Trousers, 4. There’ll be Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover, 5. I’ll Be Seeing You, 6. Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree, 7. Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition – Julie Stein, et. al., (Arr. James Christensen)

Independentia March – R.B. Hall

Lamp of Liberty (Patriotic Concert Piece with Narrator) – Frank Bencrisutto

Midway March – John Williams (Arr. James Curnow)

On the Banks of the Wabash – Paul Dresser (Arr. George F. Briegel)

Scepter of Liberty March – John Olivadoti

Variations on America – Charles Ives (Arr. William Schuman & William Rhoads)

The World Turned Upside Down (Revolutionary War March) (Arr. Robert Jager)

Pastime (Concert Piece based on “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” – Jack Stamp

American Overture for Band – Joseph Wilcox Jenkins

Chester Overture (Revelutionary War Song) William Schuman