With Cedar Rapids Municipal Band director Steve Shanley still on vacation, Linn-Mar’s Jen Tiede is guest directing this week. Her guest is bassist and singer Blake Shaw, who took this opportunity to do his first-ever arranging for concert band, which is much larger than a jazz big band, and even more so than Blake’s usual larger ensemble, his “big-ish” band.
Also on the program, Jen has picked a variety of pieces, including a John Williams march from the movie “Midway,” Percy Grainger, Strauss, music from “The Greatest Showman,” and Blake’s brand-new arrangement of “Willow Weep For Me.”
June 14 at Cleveland Elementary and June 18 at McGrath Amphitheater. All concerts are at 7:30pm, Come on Sunday at 6:30 for a set from the New Horizons Band. Or watch the livestream at www.facebook.com/crmuniband.
Info at www.crmuniband.org.
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