Ohlone Community Band

Ohlone College Band Program performances in Fremont – Spring 2016
Please join us for one, two, or all three of the Ohlone Bands Spring Concerts!

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Vintage Brass
Friday, April 29, 2016 • 8pm • Smith Center, Ohlone College, Fremont
Mission Peak Brass Band’s final program of the season features Goff Richards’ bubbly Homage to the Noble Grape. The fun continues with Bruce Broughton’s Harlequin and P.D.Q. Bach’s 1712 Overture. Max Swisher will be the featured euphonium soloist on Saint-Saens’ The Swan. The program also includes works by Holst, Richard Strauss, Robert Browne Hall, and Fred Fisher.
Tickets $15/$10 at the door or www.SmithCenter.com. Parking is $4. For more information, visit mpbb.org.

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Legends and Myths
Sunday, May 1, 2016 • 2pm • Smith Center, Ohlone College, Fremont
For our final program of the season, the Ohlone Wind Orchestra program features “Inferno” and “Ascension” from Robert W. Smith’s epic Divine Comedy Symphony. Themes of legendary strength and passion continue with Danse Bacchanale by Saint-Saëns, Bernstein’s beloved Overture to Candide, and works by Julie Giroux, David Lovrien, Fisher Tull, and Johann Strauss.
Tickets $15/$10 at the door or www.SmithCenter.com. Parking is free on Sundays.
For more information, visit OhloneWindOrchestra.org.

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Pops in the Park!
Saturday, May 7, 2016 • Noon • Performance Pavilion, Central Park, Fremont
The Ohlone Community Band and Tuba Ensemble present pop tunes in an old-fashioned park concert. Highlights include pieces by Mancini and John Williams, marches, and show tunes – sure to be festive for the whole family. The Ohlone Tuba Ensemble will open the concert with an eclectic program of jazz, spirituals, the Beatles and more.
Free Concert – Bring the whole family! Bring your own chair or blanket. And maybe even a Picnic Lunch. Donations will be gratefully accepted. For more information, visit www.OhloneCommunityBand.org

Wind band performances in Fremont – March 2016

You are invited to join the Ohlone Bands and Maestro Tony Clements for three lively concerts in March, all held at the Smith Center at Ohlone College in Fremont, CA.

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Mission Peak Brass Band (MPBB)

Horizons

Friday, March 11, 2016 • 8pm • Smith Center, Ohlone College, Fremont

The Brass Band presents music with an international outlook:  Overture from South Pacific, Dave Adams’ arrangement of Saint-Saens’ Orient et Occident, and Duke Ellington’s Isfahan, arranged for flugelhorn solo. The program also includes great music by Verdi, Louis Prima’s swing classic “Sing, Sing, Sing”, and a selection of fanfares, marches and waltzes. For more information, visit mpbb.org. Tickets $15/$10 at the door or www.SmithCenter.com.

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The Ohlone Wind Orchestra (OWO)

Celebration and Counterpoint

Sunday, March 13, 2016 • 2pm • Smith Center, Ohlone College, Fremont

The Wind Orchestra program features two dynamic, influential works: Hindemith’s seminal Symphony in Bb and Rimksy-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Overture. The concert also includes contemporary treats from Bernstein, Saint-Saens, and Mark Camphouse. For more information, visit OhloneWindOrchestra.org. Tickets $15/$10 at the door or www.SmithCenter.com.

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 Ohlone Community Band (OCB)

Honor, Service, and Home

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 • 7:30pm • Smith Center, Ohlone College, Fremont

The Community Band’s concert commemorates our nation’s service people and their hometowns. In honor of Women’s History Month, the band will perform Julie Giroux’s No Finer Calling, dedicated to the US Air Force. Reinicke’s Main Street Celebration and Galante’s A Childhood Remembered take us back home. Other works on these themes include Bulla’s Rhapsody for Flute featuring soloist Jennifer Oliver.

Special weekday prices! Tickets $10/$5 at the door or www.SmithCenter.com.