East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1955-01-13
Shaw Concert
Band Plays
Next Sunday

When the Shaw Band played
its last "Alma Mater" at the Lake
wood football game in the Stadium
last November and quick-stepped
off the field, there may have been
some East Clevelanders who said
to themselves, "Well, there they
go; they're through for another
year." But that's not the way it
is. Director S. Robert Fraser's pre-
cision players may have turned in
their books of football marches,
but they didn't turn IN their horns.
Now in January-on next Sum
day the 18th at p. m. to be exact
they will come before the public
as a concert band instead of q
marching band. This is more like
an orchestra without strings, or a
band sitting down; anyway, it
plays indoors where it's light and
a sort of Sousa centennial plus
warm, and the music is more clas-
sical.
The Midwinter Band Concert this
year, in Shaw Auditorium, will be
one. John Philip Sousa was born
in 1854; and although many musi-
cal groups celebrated the centenary
of his birth last year, the Shaw
Band is being different, land will
be giving the first concert of the
famous composers second century.
Sousa compositions to be fea-
tured will be "The Fairest of the
Fair, and medley ga Salute to
Sousa", including parts of a num-
ber of his pieces, among them be-
ing the famous "Stars and Stripes
Forever"
In addition to honoring Sousa,
this Shaw Concert will be a fare
we'll to the eight band members
who will receive their diplomas at
the end of January. Each one has
been given a special place on the
program. In the Sousa medley, for
instance, Helen Rendlesham and
Carol Norwich will play the pic
colo obbligato that is so essential
a part of "Stars and Stripes For
ever; and the narrators in the
same number, interpolating facts
about the the band leaders life
and career, will be Beverly Bethel
and Charles Armao.
Earlier in the program, the
band will accompany baritone
artists David Campbell and Sidney
Peterson in Affords "The World
Is Waiting for the Sunrise, and
French horn player, Diana Rey-
nard in the Berceuse from God
ards "Jocelyn." And in something
called "Little Bop Riding Hood
a Bop Fairy Tale for Hip Kids"
the narrator will be Leroy Mikut,
erstwhile drum major.
If you bring your children to
this afternoon of music, they will
enjoy not only this last-named
number, but also others that they
have probably heard on the radio
or television. Such selections as
Won Suppe's "Poet and Peasant"
Overture, the Negro spirituals in
Whitney's fantasy entitled "River
Jordan" and "Hernando's Hide
away" and "Steam Heat" from the
current musical "Pajama Game"
are all quiet popular on the air.
waves these days. Fusik's march,
Thunder and Blazes," may be new
to them. However, from the movies
they may recognize the opening
number on the program, the STIR
ring Triumphal March from "Quo
Vadis," when Nero is eating all
those grapes.
Speaking of eating, that will not
be neglected either; for free re-
freshments are to be served in the
Shaw cafeteria, after the concert.
But speaking of free things, the
concert itself isn't. Tickets at the
door will be 81 for an entire
family, or 50c for an adult and 25c
for a child under twelve.