BERLIN– Calvin B. Taylor House Museum’s final 2014 Concert on the Lawn promises to be the biggest of the year.
The Salisbury Community Band will bring more than 30 musicians to the museum lawn on Sunday, Sept. 14. at 6 p.m. Formed in the late 1930’s, the band played concerts in Salisbury City Park throughout the summer.
“The band has been around for a long time,” said Chairman of the Board of Directors Pat Shaner.
Shaner, who has played trumpet in the group for 37 years, said the musicians are a mix of amateur and professional players from Delaware, Maryland and Virginia ages 16-80. The youngest players must have graduated from 10th grade, and the oldest in the band’s history have been well into their late-80s.
Membership varies from week-to-week based on availability, generally ranging between 30 and 60 musicians. Because of the rotating cast, the Salisbury Community Band uses an adaptable repertoire with band directors creating a song list each week based on which musicians are available.
“They do a tremendous job every week of coming up with a program, figuring out how to rehearse quickly and utilizing the right personnel,” said Shaner. “Typically around the 4th of July we’ll do a patriotic concert. The other concerts all tend to be a mix of some marches – because the audiences seem to love marches – some show tunes either from movies or from Broadway shows, and a mixture of traditional concert band music. It’s just a wide variety.”
Sunday also marks the Salisbury Community Band’s final concert of the season.
“The band is not complicated,” Shaner said. “We’re there to maintain traditions of the early 20th-century concert in the park on Sunday night – that’s us. It’s a tradition we think is great and that’s what we’re doing in Berlin.
“We love it when people come out and just enjoy the concerts,” Shaner continued. “If they can attend more of our concerts that’s great. Next season if they have ideas that they would like for us to do something else that’s great too, but we just want people to come out and enjoy some music on a Sunday night in the park.”
The concert is free and open to the public. Lawn chairs and picnic baskets are encouraged.
The Calvin B. Taylor House Museum is located on 208 North Main Street in Berlin. For more information call 410-641-1019 or visit www.taylorhousemuseum.org.
For more information on the Salisbury Community Band visit www.salisburyband.com or www.facebook.com/salisburyband.
The Salisbury Community Band will bring more than 30 musicians to the museum lawn on Sunday, Sept. 14. at 6 p.m. Formed in the late 1930’s, the band played concerts in Salisbury City Park throughout the summer.
“The band has been around for a long time,” said Chairman of the Board of Directors Pat Shaner.
Shaner, who has played trumpet in the group for 37 years, said the musicians are a mix of amateur and professional players from Delaware, Maryland and Virginia ages 16-80. The youngest players must have graduated from 10th grade, and the oldest in the band’s history have been well into their late-80s.
Membership varies from week-to-week based on availability, generally ranging between 30 and 60 musicians. Because of the rotating cast, the Salisbury Community Band uses an adaptable repertoire with band directors creating a song list each week based on which musicians are available.
“They do a tremendous job every week of coming up with a program, figuring out how to rehearse quickly and utilizing the right personnel,” said Shaner. “Typically around the 4th of July we’ll do a patriotic concert. The other concerts all tend to be a mix of some marches – because the audiences seem to love marches – some show tunes either from movies or from Broadway shows, and a mixture of traditional concert band music. It’s just a wide variety.”
Sunday also marks the Salisbury Community Band’s final concert of the season.
“The band is not complicated,” Shaner said. “We’re there to maintain traditions of the early 20th-century concert in the park on Sunday night – that’s us. It’s a tradition we think is great and that’s what we’re doing in Berlin.
“We love it when people come out and just enjoy the concerts,” Shaner continued. “If they can attend more of our concerts that’s great. Next season if they have ideas that they would like for us to do something else that’s great too, but we just want people to come out and enjoy some music on a Sunday night in the park.”
The concert is free and open to the public. Lawn chairs and picnic baskets are encouraged.
The Calvin B. Taylor House Museum is located on 208 North Main Street in Berlin. For more information call 410-641-1019 or visit www.taylorhousemuseum.org.
For more information on the Salisbury Community Band visit www.salisburyband.com or www.facebook.com/salisburyband.