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Community Band to present ‘Fall Colors’ at BRCC

Frederick Lemmons will be soloist when the Hendersonville Community Band presents its”Fall Colors” concert Sunday at BRCC.

By , Published: October 11, 2012

Hendersonville Community Band will present "Fall Colors" at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14, in the Blue Ridge Community College Conference Hall in Flat Rock. Music director/conductor Winford Franklin leads the big concert band in a program as varied and colorful as this year's autumn leaves.

Former conductor Fern Barber will conduct the band as solo clarinetist Frederick Lemmons performs Carl Maria Von Weber's "Fantasia and Rondo." Lemmons has become an integral part of the music community in Western North Carolina since his move to Asheville in 2009. He serves as professor of clarinet at Mars Hill College and woodwinds professor at Brevard College. He performs with the Asheville Lyric Opera, Brevard Philharmonic and the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra.
The HCB's clarinet section will then be featured in Leroy Anderson's lively and playful "Clarinet Candy."
The HCB low wind players will star in the rousing circus march, "Bravura" by C.E. Duble, arranged by Thurston. Next is Charles Ives's patriotic, yet very humorous, "Variations on 'America'," transcribed for winds in 1964 by W.E. Rhoads. At 17 years old, Ives composed this piece to surprise genteel music lovers of 19th century New England.
A popular West Indies dance, the beguine, inspired Michigan native Glenn Osser to compose his well-known "Beguine for Band." "Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon," a beautiful Scottish folk tune, was composed for band in 1932 by Percy Grainger, an Australian who emigrated to America.
In 1957 the American Bandmasters Association awarded the prestigious Ostwald Award to Clifton Williams for his concert band composition, "Symphonic Suite." HCB plays all three movements and continues with "Queen City Suite" from another contemporary American composer, Charles Carter. Twentieth century British composer Gordon Jacob offers the first movement of "An Original Suite."
Warren Barker's music has been performed and recorded by artists from Frank Sinatra to the Hollywood Bowl and Cincinnati Pops Orchestras. The concert closes with Barker's arrangement of "Swing's the Thing," featuring "Night Train," "I've Heard That Song Before" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore."
Admission to "Fall Colors" is $10 adults, students free. Tickets are available from band members, Laurel Park Wine Market, Hendersonville Visitors Information Center and at the door. Information at 828-696-2118 and www.hcbmusic.com