residents current students former students parents local musicians all we've been working together for just the last few couple of weeks we had a few rehearsals over the high school and we're here tonight to make a whole lot of music for you  the first thing we're going to play for you this evening is the star spangled banner so to ask that you all rise for the national anthem we are in a very patriotic mood for you this week with all of the very patriotic that's happening in the country so the next piece we're going to play for was called american salute it's by morton gold and it's a really famous orchestral work transcribed for a band  he'd taken he's taken the civil war era song jump when johnny comes marching home and he's made it really super fun and energetic and interesting also this is our performance of  so although this is the belmont community summer band we've decided to let an outsider join us this summer from very far away watertown massachusetts we're very fortunate that we've got a friend over the hill and walk as one of the most sought after trombonists in the boston area and he's done a lot of work with our high school bands and the e p as i work in belmont so we thought would be fun to feature him as a trombone soloist this summer so there's a really famous trombone solo that i think every trombone a sense to memorize in order to buy a new instrument or something like that everyone's going to learn it it's called the blue bells of scotland and it will feature our very dear friend walk boston on trombone  if you you may have heard of a little movie that came out oh i guess around the holidays it was called star wars the force awakens some of you have seen it multiple times i'm sure those of you that are under five feet tall probably have seen it several times so we're going to present to you a whole medley of music from the film star wars the force awakens so much music from the film star wars the force awakens that if you haven't seen the film next friday it's super cool beans and we have a concert next wednesday but i also want to remind you this concert is sponsored by the belmont minds club they well because the blue bells of scotland was so great we're going to come up and play it again no no no we shan't be doing that he played all the notes he knows how to play already so but we are going to go and visit scotland once again and play a really beautiful scottish folk song called loch lomond this is arranged by frank to kelly if you listen really hard at the end you might even hear a little bit of danny boy mixing which we know is in scottish but sort of a rule about band concerts that danny boy has to be somewhere in the mix so we're going to tuck it in at the end of loch lomond and hope that if there are any scottish people and irish people in the audience that they won't mind the fact that we're just kind of merging their two musical cultures together so this is frankly kelly's arrangement of  there's an old saying that when armenians get together anywhere in the world they kind of make their own parties and i was our little armenian party there three armenians and sheriff that's right so they got so one nice little segue that  when people come from army or other countries and immigrate here there's a whole musical culture that they bring with them and there's a really wonderful broadway show that you may have heard of called west side story it's sort of celebrates after that so we're going to play three in a row from west side story and you don't have to be armenian to dance so you can get up here and  so it's really nice that the weather has cooperated with us and chose not to rain for the last three months as you can see from the lovely luscious grass that you were there sitting on so we we we put this concert out every summer rain or shine  hoping for shine and we've been fortunate the last resort has been able to have it here and not back at the high school which would be fine because it's so much nicer to have it out here and see all the kids running around in come out how many of you really nice thing about it is if you have experience playing in a school band programers high school or college middle school you know that you you develop kind of a close bond with your friends your band friends it sort of but then you carry it through life so it's really nice every the summer you certainly are welcome we're going to play a piece for you now that actually comes from a summer fiddle camp in upstate new york and it's a song that i always thought was sort of a traditional folk song and it's not it's called  farewell and it's called that because there was a phil camp out of upstate new york i'm assuming the show can valley or somewhere like that and this was a piece that they composed that they played at the end of the summer every year because it was so sad to be leaving each other we're not leaving you  a song that because we all had such a great time our last couple weeks playing together this is sort of this will be sort of our farewell to our some of the answer this year and looking forward to having all of you join us next summer film franchise that you may or may not be familiar with it's a disney endeavor and i think we've made seven or eight or nine of them is called pirates of the caribbean a bit of money from disney back in the day so we're going to play music for you from the first pirates of the caribbean film because it's the only one we have so i think there are nine more after that we'll have to stock up maybe next summer you'll get whatever the second was called pirates of the caribbean juden was never see the tires that are going to the pirates of the caribbean one was excellent the music is really great we might need those star wars guys back up here to dance because i'm you can see from all the rigamarole this next piece will feature our precautions section you you may not be aware of this but all of the stuff that you see here the chairs the stands the percussion answers awesome that doesn't exist at pace  park all of this stuff came from dahlman high school this afternoon and ninety nine percent of the work was done by the park caution section so can we give them so we really didn't want to do this but since they did all that work we figured we had to feature them on at least one piece tonight so we are going to feature these three fine young gentleman in front of us danny tommy and grant as well as the other precautions in the back you can always they're the ones banging on things this piece is called arabian dances and as you might imagine it is based on middle eastern folk music features some middle eastern percussion instruments it is really a whole heck of a lot of fun it is written by a great composer named brian ball midges who writes a lot for band and orchestra so i think it looks like we're ready they're there they're giving me grins like they can't wait to bang on things so we have further ado here is arabian dances we're going to now play for you a piece called salvation is created others been a lot of the news about russia lately last couple basically heard some rumblings that russia is up to some things that may or may not know about salvation is created is u sacred him from the russian orthodox church and in russia under stalin worship and especially the performance of all this music was outlawed by the russian orthodox church kind of maintained a sort  so if you think you've had enough john williams then you shouldn't have come to a summer band concert because that's what we do and we do it the best we know how so we're going to play for you a piece called at the movies with john williams because where else would you be with  features some music from a film called book which was i thought a really fun movie but the music probably was better than the movie and also music from the film home alone which you may or may not even know that john williams wrote the movie the music for what he did and it's really beautiful and it probably elevated that movie to a much higher standard than it would have been if he was just a little kid running around tearing his house apart so music from superman book and home alone this is john at the movies with john williams we're getting very close to the end of our performance because we almost can't see our notes anymore and because their faces are about to fall off and we've really enjoyed being here we hope even joy listening to us this summer now we have reached the end of the program going to give them a second to gather their their all their thoughts and check their notes because it is really hard to see up here but they're going to do the best they can and i'm going to do this i can't i'm not us through them up on this one because this is a really important one i want to play for you america the beautiful this is an arrangement by carmen dragon and it is a really gorgeous arrangement beautiful song that expresses how we feel about the country that we live in some new faces sitting amongst us in the band so you have a whole year to to get your instruments out from the arctic or on to the bad and then dust it off and get ready to join us again next july so thank you all for being here tonight have a wonderful rest of the summer and we will leave d's everyone for being here get home safe and don't forget that you can come here lots of concerts just like this during the school year at cherry middle school in belmont high school it seems like we have a concert every night because we do so please come and hear them they're free and they're really great and your kids are probably