4th of July Independance Day Tribute was the fifth Summer Season concert of 2021
This is the second of two pages of photos highlighting the 4th of July concert.
Assistant Conductor Dan Cassady conducted the Karl L. King Municipal Band for the next two numbers.
The King Band performed Henry Fillmore's march Americans We.
Henry Fillmore, who along with John Philip Sousa and Karl King, was another of America's March Kings. Like Karl King, Henry Fillmore was born in Ohio. After graduating from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Fillmore traveled the United States as a circus bandmaster with his wife, an exotic vaudeville dancer named Mabel May Jones.
The second number conducted by
Dan Cassady was Pearl Harbor Soundtrack Highlights,
composed by Hans Zimmer and
arranged by Jay Bocook.
The King Band Conductor/Composer
Jerrold P. Jimmerson returned
to lead the band in George Gershwin's
An
American in Paris.
The evening concert was nearing completion when the band performed one of King’s famous galops, Majestic.
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The final number on this was the National March, The Stars and Stripes Forever.
The piccolo players were Rachel Daum on the left and Megan Benz on the right.
The official national march for our nation and one of the most famous patriotic songs in the United States is the The Stars and Stripes Forever. It was composed by John Philip Sousa in 1896 and became the national march in 1987.
In show business and particularly in theater and the circus, this piece was called the Disaster March. In the early 20th century, when it was common for theaters and circuses to have house bands, this march was a traditional code signaling a life-threatening emergency.
On this 2021 Fourth of July Independance Day Tribute, The Stars and Stripes Forever was a favorite patriotic song.
The concert closed with the playing of our National Anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner.
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