As an ongoing part of its music program, Nashoba High School is pleased to offer the opportunity for adults and students from the Nashoba family and surrounding communities to rehearse and perform with the Nashoba Symphonic Band. Now in its seventh season, the ensemble is under the direction of David Bailey.
The Nashoba Symphonic Band typically plays four to five concerts each season at Nashoba Regional High School and occasional off-site locations. The concerts of the 2022-2023 Season will all take place in the auditorium of The Nashoba Regional High School, Route 117 (12 Green Road GPS) in Bolton MA, about a mile west of the center of town. Admission is free and open to the public. The theme for the season is “Joy in Form,” exploring the ways in which various elements are combined to create a complete musical work.
Sunday, October 30, 2022, 3 p.m. “Brilliant Expositions!” includes Festive Overture by Dmitri Shostakovitch, Suite from Candide, Clare Grundman’s setting of music from the Broadway show by Leonard Bernstein, and the glorious Symphony No.3 by Vittorio Giannini.
Saturday, February 4, 2023, 2 p.m. “Unexpected Developments!” features Variations for Wind Band by Ralph Vaughan Williams with Arthur Fracknpohl’s Celebration Overture and the Fantasies on a Theme by Haydn by Norman Dello-Joio, plus marches by Kenneth J. Alford and Leon Jessel.
Sunday, May 7, 2023, 3 p.m. “Fiendish Finales!” includes a complete performance of Robert W. Smith’s Symphony No.1 The Divine Comedy, based on the writings of Dante: Inferno, Purgatorio, Ascension, and Paradiso. The work is aptly framed by the Rakoczy March from Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust, and March “Gloria” by Frank Hoyt Losey.
Thursday, June 15, 2023, 7:30 p.m. “Fitting Codas!” features classics of concert band repertoire, including Symphonic Dance No.3 “Fiesta” by Clifton Williams, Pines of the Appian Way by Ottorino Respighi, and selections from the musical, Man of LaMancha, as well as music performed by graduating members of the Nashoba Symphonic Band.
The Nashoba Symphonic Band welcomes new players at the beginning of each season and at rehearsals immediately following each concert. There are no auditions, but adult membership is limited to a certain number within each section. Students (grade 8 and above) are required to present a recommendation from their school instrumental director or private instructor.
Rehearsals of the Nashoba Symphonic Band are held 7-9 p.m on Thursdays in the Instrumental Music Room of Nashoba Regional High School, Route 117, about a mile west of Bolton town center (GPS address in 12 Green Road, Bolton MA).
FIRST REHEARSAL for the 2022-2023 Season will be Thursday, September 1st at 7 p.m.
REGISTRATION for ALL new and returning members will begin at 6 p.m. in the auditorium lobby. There is no longer on-line registration.
Those wishing to become members should contact the director, David Bailey, baileydavidwayne@gmail.com, OR Joe McCarthy, Nashoba Regional High School Instrumental Music Director, jmccarthy@nrsd.net. Please contact either for further information.Nashoba Symphonic Band is a program of the Nashoba Friends of Music and is supported in part by grants from the Cultural Councils in Bolton, Harvard, Hudson, Lancaster, and Stow, local agencies supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency. All performances of the Nashoba Symphonic Band are free and open to the public.
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