On Friday, August 21, the Marion Concert Band continues its summer concert series with a concert featuring the music of film composer John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra. The program, which features two soloists, is as follows:
Washington Grays – C. Grafulla
Light Cavalry Overture – F. von Suppé
Strike Up the Band – G. Gershwin
Embraceable You – G. Gershwin
Tracy Fiore, soprano
John Williams: Evening at Pops – arr. John Higgins
Rondo from Horn Concerto #3 – W. A. Mozart
David Monte, horn
Raiders of the Lost Ark Medley – J. Williams
Belle of the Ball – L. Anderson
Over the Rainbow – H. Arlen
Tracy Fiore, soprano
Clarinet Escapade – R. Ward
Mancini! – H. Mancini
Theme from E.T. – J. Williams
The Stars and Stripes Forever – J. P. Sousa
Tracy Fiore is a cantor at Holy Name Church (Fall River) and teaches Musical Theatre at the Onstage Academy of Performing Arts in Fall River. Her recent theatrical credits include Glinda/Auntie Em in The Wizard of OZ, the Baroness in The Sound of Music, and the Mother in the opera Amahl & the Night Visitors, all with Little Theatre of Fall River. Ms. Fiore has sung in an American Pop review in Downtown Disney, Orlando, FL for the Magic Music days program, the Rockin’ America review at Disney (2009) as well as the Swingin’ on a Star Musical review in several venues in TN (2007).
David Monte has performed with the Massachusetts All-State Orchestra, the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, the New Bedford Symphony Youth Orchestra, the American Band (Providence, RI), the Tri-County Symphonic Band (Marion, MA), and the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra. He has appeared as soloist with both the Fall River Symphony Orchestra and the Southcoast Alumni Symphony Orchestra. He has been a member of the Marion Concert Band since 2006.
The concert, under the direction of Tobias Monte, will begin at 7:00 pm at the Robert Broomhead Bandstand, Island Wharf off Front Street in Marion. The concert is free and open to the public.