Kim Kasten plays “Star Dust” on the trumpet at a recent rehearsal of the Oak Ridge Community Band/Wind Ensemble. (Submitted photo)
The Oak Ridge Community Band/Wind Ensemble has its last indoor concert of the 2017-2018 series on Sunday. It’s the “April Showers” show at Oak Ridge High School.
The concert starts at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the Oak Ridge High School Performing Arts Center.
The summer season of outdoor concerts begins on Memorial Day, a press release said.
The Sunday performance promises to be exceptional, featuring a variety of songs including Hoagy Carmichael’s “Star Dust,” featuring trumpet soloist Kim Kasten; Leonard Bernstein’s “Highlights of West Side Story”; Alfred Reed’s exciting “Punchinello”; and James Curnow’s lovely “Cherry Tree” from his “Appalachian Dances,” the press release said. Other numbers on Sunday’s program will be Jean Sibelius’s “Finlandia,” John Clifford Heed’s “In Storm and Sunshine,” and Leroy Anderson’s “Belle of the Ball.” [Read more…]
