Family Concert – Yankee Doodling!

For more than twenty years, The Allentown Band has offered Youth Concerts to thousands of students from the Lehigh Valley at Miller Symphony Hall. This year’s concerts will be held Thursday October 15 and Friday October 16 at 10:00 AM, free of charge to area students. The SAME PROGRAM will be performed at 2:00 PM on Saturday October 17. Youth accompanied by adults are free; adults $5.00. Tickets available the the Miller Symphony Hall Box Office, 610.432.6715 or online at www.millersymphonyhall.com. Please check with the box office or website for availability.

Program from the following:

Yankee Doodling: A Young Person’s Guide to the Concert Band
by Daniel Kallman

Fantasie Humoresque on Yankee Doodle
by David W. Reeves

Fugue on Yankee Doodle
by John Philip Sousa

Yankee Doodle
by Morton Gould

Fife and Drums: The White Cockade and Yankee Doodle
1700s, Revolutionary War Era
played with fires and rope tension drums 
featuring the Freedom High School Fife and Drum Corps

The Brass Band of the 1800s: Northampton Quickstep
by Thomas Coates

Concord Overture
by Clare Grundman

American Pageant
by Thomas Knox

American Salute (based on When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
Setting by Morton Gould

Stars and Stripes Forever
by John Philip Sousa