The July 19, 2026 Concert Saluting Noted Composers
The July 19, 2026 Concert Saluting Noted Composers
The second to last outdoor concert for the 2026 Summer Season by the Karl L. King Municipal Band of Fort Dodge was held on Sunday afternoon, July 19th at 7:30 p.m. in the historic Karl L. King Band Shell in Oleson Park. There was no admission charge, with these concerts being provided by the City of Fort Dodge for everyone’s enjoyment. The band was led by Conductor Dan Cassady, with Paul Bloomquist serving as the band’s announcer.
The program began with British composer Kenneth Alford’s Colonel Bogey.
The second number performed was John Philip Sousa’s march, The High School Cadets.
The evening’s classical offering included the Finale (Fourth) Movement from Symphony in B Flat, by French composer Paul Fauchet. This vigorous, march-like work is considered to be ‘the first symphony ever written for Band” and premiered in France in 1926. This composition made its American debut at Carlton College in Minnesota in 1933.
Music from Fort Dodge’s own Karl
L. King was a circus-style selection was an Oriental romance intermezzo
titled In Old Pekin.
You may listen. 
Special guest vocalists for the evening were Shari and Roger Netz from Manson. Both are graduates of Manson High School and both sang for several years with the Manson Meridian Singers. Shari first performed a Hoagy Carmichael classic, Skylark.
Roger then joined Shari to sing one of George Gershwin favorite duets, They Can’t Take That Away From Me.
A medley of Duke Ellington’s Big Band hits, titled Rhythmoods was also on this evening's program.
The Karl L. King Municipal Band of Fort Dodge next performed another George Gershwin’s classic, An American in Paris.
An American in Paris had included short solo passages by Tim Miller and Paul Bloomquist.
The Band next performed Karl L. King’s characteristic Schottische, Dance of the Imps.
You may listen.
Also on the evening’s program was the lively Shepherd’s Hey from Australian-born composer, Percy Aldridge Grainger.
Closing the concert was another classic Sousa march, Manhattan Beach.
Chance Studer, who won the larger scholarship, performed Hunter's Moon.
The Karl L. King Municipal Band of Fort Dodge, Iowa finished by playing the National Anthem. The flags were originally ordered to half-staff to honor Iowa native and U.S. Air Force Maj. Brad Hovey, who died in a B-52 flight test mission. Iowa governor Kim Reynolds then extended the half-staff order to commemorate Senator Graham following his death.
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