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FINAL KING BAND SUMMER CONCERT:
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final concert of this 2024 summer season by the Karl L. King Municipal
Band of Fort Dodge will be held at 7:30 pm on Sunday evening, July 28 at
the Karl L. King Band Shell in Oleson Park. Admission is free,
courtesy of the City of Fort Dodge. There will be a homemade
ice cream social provided by the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church before
and during the concert. Persons are reminded to bring their
own lawn chairs or blankets, since there is no public seating provided.
Conductor
of the Band is Jerrold P. Jimmerson, with Dan Cassady serving as the Assistant
Conductor, and Paul Bloomquist as the announcer. This will
be Maestro Jimmerson’s final concert as Conductor after 22 seasons, which
followed his 43-season playing career with the Band under Conductors Karl
L. King (11 seasons), W. B. Green (7 seasons), and Reginald R. Schive (25
seasons).
Compositions
by Karl King are always on the program, including The Home Town Boy,
which King dedicated to his friend Meredith Willson, along with the Emporia
Galop. Current conductor Jerrold P. Jimmerson’s march,
King
of Fort Dodge, is also on the program. Jimmerson performed
for 11 seasons under King’s baton before the famous conductor passed away
in 1971, and has written this march as a tribute to his mentor.
This week’s classical selection
is one of the world’s most popular, the Finale from ‘The New World Symphony
by Bohemian composer Antonin Dvorak. Portions of this famous
symphony were composed in Spillville, Iowa in 1893, while Dvorak was spending
the summer in the northeast Iowa area. Another classic will
be the Pilgrim’s Chorus from the opera Tannhauser by German
composer Richard Wagner, a favorite selection of Karl King, which he frequently
performed.
Lighter sounds will be heard
from one of America’s most popular musicals, The Music Man, by Mason
City native Meredith Willson, along with Paul Yoder’s Rush Street Tarantella,
another favorite of Karl King. Dan Cassady, from Twin Lakes,
will be the featured trombone soloist on a collection of Tommy Dorsey melodies
with T. D. – That Sentimental Gentleman.
This concert will feature a special
guest conductor, Andrew Glover, a nationally prominent composer, conductor,
and arranger. He joined the staff of the C. L. Barnhouse Company
in Oskaloosa, Iowa in 1998, as Executive Vice President in charge of music
production. Glover now serves as staff composer-arranger and
editor, and is the President of that company.
Originally a native of the St.
Louis area, he was educated in the public schools of Webster Groves, Misssouri.
He received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Central Methodist
University, did graduate work at Southeast Missouri State University, and
taught in the St. Louis area for several years. His performance
experience includes playing Euphonium with the Detroit Municipal Band under
the direction of Leonard B. Smith.
Glover’s band compositions and
arrangements now number well over 250, most of which are published by the
Barnhouse Company, and have been performed, recorded, and broadcast by
bands worldwide. Mr. Glover will conduct one of Karl King’s
marches, The Attorney General, along with a recently discovered
unpublished manuscript of an overture written by King in the 1940s titled
The
Debutante.
This final summer concert always
closes in the traditional circus way, with the playing of Karl King’s march,
Auld Lang Syne, followed by our national anthem, The Star-Spangled
Banner.
In case of inclement weather,
the concert may be cancelled at the starting time. Any announcements
will be made on the band’s Facebook page listing (see link above).
The Karl L. King Municipal Band of Fort Dodge is
seen during a practice session
before taking the stage.
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