International Music Making in Lake Orion

International Music Making in Lake Orion

 The North Oakland Concert Band’s first concert of its 2013-14 season celebrates international cooperation with a joint program featuring the Greater Windsor Concert Band, the second of the two organizations collaborative events over the years. The talents of the two bands will be showcased in the program aptly entitled “Hand in Hand.” The bands will perform both in independent sections and in a massed band that will combine the members of each.

The concert, taking place at 4:00 pm on Sunday, October 27th at the Lake Orion High School Auditorium, 495 East Scripps Road, Lake Orion, Michigan, will fill the hall with the blended sounds of over 100 musicians making music in international harmony.

Conductor Annette Kline leads the North Oakland Concert Band in their section of the concert. The band will feature two contemporary works, Eviler Elves by
James Kazik written in 2008 and the Southeast Michigan premier of Garden of the Gods by Rob Burns written in 2013. Both works fit well into the October landscape of the fall season and the eerie themes of Halloween. Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, an audience pops favorite, concludes the NOCB section.

The Greater Windsor Concert Band, formed in 1997 by Conductor Ric Moor, is a prominent community band from Ontario, Canada.   Their section of the concert will include a tribute to Michigan’s Mackinac Bridge, Mighty Mac, by Lloyd Conley.   Keeping the theme of waters that link Canada and the United States, the band will play They Came Sailing by Canadian composer Andre Jutras. Ric Moor finishes the section with two more Americas-centered pieces, Antonin’s New World by Stratford and Tennessee Salute, by Dawson.

The two bands come together for the final section of the program. This grand host of musicians will present six pieces together, including the favorite First
Suite in Bb, by Gustav Holst, and Washington Post, the famous march by Sousa. The combined sounds will be glorious.

Maintaining a full schedule throughout the year performing concerts in a variety of venues, festivals and competitions, the Greater Windsor Concert Band under Ric Moor has created memorable musical events for almost 16 years. In 2011, the North Oakland Concert Band travelled to Windsor to join the band for the first collaborative concert of the two groups.

The North Oakland Concert Band has been providing free concerts to the Detroit Metropolitan Area community for over 30 years.  Based in Lake Orion, the band members travel from all over the Metro Detroit area to play in this top-level community band under the direction of Annette Kline.