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Skagit Community Band plays Maple Hall

There weren’t 76 trombones, and the band didn’t march, but the 48-member Skagit Community Band concert band offered a feast of musical offerings to a full house at Maple Hall February 9th. Conductor Vince Fejeran offered “‘Bon Appétit:’ A multi-course concert featuring selections for appetizers, first course, second course, main course and dessert” to the 100 or so souls filling the hall’s first floor and over half the balcony. The band dressed, appropriately, in tuxedoes – the males – with the women wearing black.

The concert band, consisting of woodwinds, percussion, brass and a string bass, were lively and energetic in the evening’s second half. Joseph Willcox Jenkins’ “American Overture” suggested the heartland, a rural, farm-based country more at the end of the 19th century, but then the composition moved to a 1920s urban but innocent mood.

This musical feast offered a treat for the woodwind players: “Windfall for Winds” by Bill Holcombe. The brass stood down, with the only support coming from the percussion section and the string bass.

The audience didn’t seem to get enough, rising for a standing ovation at the end.

 

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