‘Russian Christmas’ centerpiece at BG band concert

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To celebrate the holiday season, the Bowling Green Area Community Band, led by Conductor
Thomas Headley, will present a concert of sacred and traditional music Sunday at 4 p.m. in the Bowling
Green Schools Performing Arts Center.The free concert will feature familiar Christmas carols in new
settings, including some jazz interpretations, courtesy of the community band’s jazz band.The
centerpiece of the concert will be Alfred Reed’s "Russian Christmas" a musically complex,
composition comprised of musical selections from the Russian Orthodox liturgy. Soloists will include
Lexie Beamer, English horn.The concert band will also perform a fanfare based upon "Adeste
Fidelis," the Hallelujah Chorus from "Messiah" by Handel and "Celtic Carol"
featuring piccolo soloist Erin Crawford.The Jazz Band, directed by William Lake with assistance from
Gary Keller, will perform swing arrangements of "Good King Wenceslas" and
"Greensleeves" and the Thad Jones ballad "A Child Is Born" with Gary Keller as
fluegelhorn soloist.The concert band has more than seventy instrumentalists, ranging in age from
teenagers to 91, from many occupations who share the enjoyment of performing music together and sharing
it with the public.Led by Thom Headley, who served as the Bowling Green Schools’ director of bands from
1980 to 2009, over 10 percent of the band membership is made of former Bowling Green Bobcat Band
members, representing graduating classes from the 1960s to the early 2000s.Current BG band director
Bruce Corrigan, serves as assistant community band director, and former BG music teachers Jane Milbrodt,
Heather Kramer and Karen Smith are members of the band.Doors open 30 minutes before the
concert.Donations will be accepted.

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