Suffolk Concert Band

Sunday 6th April 2025 at 2.30pm

Doors & bar open at 2.00pm

Tickets: £15 (students and under 16s free)

Tickets are available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

Programme to include Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, Eric Coates’ Calling All Workers, music by ‘The Waltz King’ Johann Strauss II, selections from the hit musicals Wicked!, Chicago and La-La Land and excerpts from film scores including 633 Squadron and Schindler’s List.

The Suffolk Concert Band is looking forward to playing at the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall with great anticipation.  They bring a programme entitled Commemorate and Celebrate.  The former is marking the end of hostilities in 1945 and will include a rare performance of William Alwyn’s Desert Victory.  The work is from music written for the film of the same name about the success of the Allies over Rommel and the Afrika Korps in North Africa in 1943.  The celebratory element of the programme will bring the very best scores from musical theatre to the concert platform and includes music from the recently released film of Wicked.

The band is delighted to welcome Duke Dobing back to direct at this concert.  Duke brings incredible experience and insight to the repertoire from his long career as Principal Flute of the City of London Sinfonia and as a soloist throughout the UK and internationally.  He last directed the band in 2017 and at the time was instrumental in guiding its musical course during that fiftieth anniversary year helping launch their celebratory CD recording SCB at 50.

This concert has been made possible with the generous support of The William Alwyn Foundation.

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Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man

Ron Goodwin: 633 Squadron

Nigel Hess: Barnes Wallis March

William Alwyn: Desert Victory Suite

John Williams: Schindler’s List

Eric Coates: Elizabeth of Glamis from The Three Elizabeths Suite, Calling all Workers

Kenneth J. Alford: Colonel Bogey

Stephen Schwartz: Wicked

John Kander and Fred Ebb: Chicago

Justin Hurwitz: La La Land

Johann Strauss: Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Thunder and Lightning Polka, Voices of Spring

 

The performance ends at approximately 4.30pm 

Presented by Suffolk Concert Band