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Dexter Community Band Members Perform Concert in Ann Arbor
The band's concert Sunday will feature a musical tribute to the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement.
Several members of the Dexter Community Band (DCB) will perform a concert Sunday with the Ann Arbor Concert Band at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor.
The concert features DCB members Phillip Rhodes, Laura Kaufman, Anne Ormand, Erick Starnal, John Ginther, Jack Overheiser and DCB board president Karla Linkner.
Rhodes has been an active member of the Ann Arbor music and theater scene for many years, and he is the principal trumpet player of the Ann Arbor Concert Band. In addition to the DCB, he performs with the Ypsilanti Symphony Orchestra, the University of Michigan Gilbert & Sullivan Society and in area community theater groups.
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“I support my theatrical addiction by working as a CAD (computer-aided) designer for an Ann Arbor engineering firm,” he said.
Sunday's concert will feature the theme “Heroes, Legends and Empires” and will include The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart, a reflection on the Roman empire; Heroes Lost and Fallen, an award-winning tribute to veterans of the Vietnam War; A Movement for Rosa, about civil rights activist Rosa Parks; and two works by conductor Dr. James Nissen: Concerto for Trumpet and Large Wind Ensemble and The Times of Our Lives, narrated by former Ann Arbor Mayor Ingrid Sheldon and by Willis Patterson, former University of Michigan music professor and associate dean.
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Nissen composed The Times of Our Lives in 1990 when he was conductor of the U of M Campus Band. He asked U of M professor Bert Hornback to write poems for the piece, outlining the cycle of life.
The Concerto for Trumpet and Large Wind Ensemble features trumpet soloist Mark Flegg, professor of trumpet at Wayne State University.
The nonprofit Ann Arbor Concert Band, with about 75 members from Dexter, Chelsea, Ann Arbor, Saline, Jackson, Milan and Mount Clemens, performs in concert four to five times a year from September to May.
The band’s season finale will be a Mother’s Day concert May 8 at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor.
Tickets for the concert at 2 p.m. Sunday cost $10 for adults and $5 for seniors and students; children 12 and younger are free. For more information, call 734-434-7876.
