Saturday, May 26th, 7:30pm
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Kansas City’s Mid America Freedom Band serves as the host organization for the 2018 Lesbian and Gay Band Association Annual Conference. Up to 400 LGBTQ and allied band musicians from the 30+ member bands will perform in two massed concert bands. Taking its title from the immortal line from The Wizard of Oz, “There’s No Place Like Home” will feature composers such as Chen Yi, Randall Standridge, Derek M. Jenkins, Ingrid Stölzel, Carlos Surinach, Aleks Sternfeld-Dunn, Daniel Morel, Claude T. Smith, Harold Arlen, and more.
Emerald Concert Band
Repertoire (in no specific order)
Aaron Copland: “The Promise of Living” from The Tender Land
Carmen Dragon (arr): America the Beautiful
Jennifer Higdon: “Rail Lights” from Road Stories
Randall Standridge: The Nine
Carlos Surinach: Memories of an Old Zarzuela
Charles Gourdin: American Parade
Conductors
Lee Hartman, Mid America Freedom Band
Kathleen Nicole Fallin, Atlanta Freedom Band
Joseph Accuardi-Gilliam, Rose City Gay Freedom Band
Yellow Concert Band
Guest Soloist: Ali Wright, Saxophone
Repertoire (in no specific order)
Harold Arlen/Arr. James Barnes: Wizard of Oz
Chen Yi: Spring Festival
Derek M. Jenkins: We Seven
Daniel Morel: Dusk Dances
Claude T. Smith: Fantasia for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band
Randall Standbridge: Old Hound Dog Rag
Aleks Sternfeld-Dunn: Antiphonal Fanfare
Ingrid Stölzel: Into the Blue (Wind Band World Premiere)
Conductors
Lee Hartman, Mid America Freedom Band
Dean McDowell, Desert Winds Freedom Band
Haley Varhol, Philadelphia Freedom Band
Erin Howard, Rainbow City Band
Justin Raines, Gay Freedom Band of Los Angeles
David Triplett-Rosa, Tampa Bay Pride Band
For more details see the conference website, or the Facebook event.
