We cordially invite you to join us for a gala concert to open the 40th season of the Callanwolde Concert Band on Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 3:00 PM at Cole Auditorium, Georgia Perimeter College, 555 North Indian Creek Drive, Clarkston, GA.
Music Director Raymond Handfield will be joined by Music Director Emeritus Clyde Bales, Assistant Conductors Scott Files and Robert Meehan, and Principal Guest Conductor Col. William Baldwin, USA (Ret.) in an exciting program of classical and popular favorites. Featured on the program will be the world premiere of a work commissioned especially for the occasion, Fanfare, Pastorale, and Allegro, by noted New England composer Peter Hazzard. Among the other works on the program are Rossini’s Overture to The Barber of Seville, Holst’s Second Suite in F for Military Band, and selections from the musicals Phantom of the Opera and The Music Man. Col. Baldwin, who grew up listening to Sousa and his band and played in The Goldman Band while a student at Juilliard in the 1930’s, will conduct Goldman’s On the Mall March and Sousa’s The Stars and Stripes Forever March as they were originally performed.
The Band, a community organization now starting its fortieth season, is DeKalb County’s premiere symphonic wind ensemble. Admission is $10. For students, seniors, and Atlanta Artscard and Atlanta Planit members, admission is $5. PBA Advantage members receive two for one admission. Tickets will be sold only at the door – no advance sales.
We hope that you can join us for this memorable concert.
LOCAL ENSEMBLE OPENS FORTIETH SEASON
A CPA, an attorney, a poet, a farmer, a noted eye surgeon, an engineer, and sixty-five others, including Dunwoody residents Sam Graiser, Graham Mobley, Jonathan Ashley, and Robert Meehan. What do they have in common? A love of fine music. They are in turn a tympanist, a French horn player, a bass clarinetist, a flutist, a saxophonist, and a string bass player – all members of the Callanwolde Concert Band which begins its fortieth season with a gala concert on Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 3:00 PM at Cole Auditorium, Georgia Perimeter College, 555 North Indian Creek Drive, Clarkston, GA.
Meehan, the ensemble’s Assistant Conductor and Principal Tympanist, and a long-time Dunwoody resident, grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and became interested in music while a student at Boston Latin School, when he heard career talks by that school’s distinguished alumni, Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Fiedler. He became more interested after attending Boston Pops concerts and, upon entering Bowdoin College, joined that college’s glee club and became a percussionist in the school’s band. He was the student conductor of the Bowdoin College Band his senior year. While attending Wharton Graduate School at the University of Pennsylvania he was choir director and organist of the school’s Newman Club. From 1964 to 1979 he was a member of the chorus and orchestra of the Philharmonic Society of Arlington in Arlington, Massachusetts. Moving to Dunwoody in 1979, he has been tympanist/percussionist with the North DeKalb Symphony Orchestra, the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra, and the Atlanta Community Orchestra. He has been a member of the DeKalb Choral Guild, Dunwoody’s All Saints Catholic Church Choir and the All Saints Catholic Church Schola Cantorum, serving as Assistant Conductor of the latter two ensembles. He is a recently-retired Certified Public Accountant and Corporate Tax Director. He joined the Callanwolde Concert Band as tympanist/percussionist in 1980 and has been an Assistant Conductor of the Band since 1983.
The Callanwolde Concert Band is an independent community concert band of adult musicians who decided not to give up music after graduating from school. Formed in 1972 as a summer program of the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, then a part of the DeKalb County Parks and Recreation Department, the band has operated as an independent non-profit corporation since 1984
The band of today differs greatly from the band of 1972, but the spirit and appreciation for good music played well has continued and flourished. Under the baton of its Music Director and Conductor since 1985, Raymond Handfield, the Band has matured into one of the finest ensembles of its type in the southeast. The Band currently presents a season of four subscription concerts plus special performances such as holiday concerts for Egleston Childrens’ Hospital and the ever popular Fourth of July concert on the Square in Decatur complete with Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture and fireworks.
For this special concert, Music Director Raymond Handfield will be joined by Music Director Emeritus Clyde Bales, Assistant Conductors Scott Files and Robert Meehan, and Principal Guest Conductor Col. William Baldwin, USA (Ret.) in an exciting program of classical and popular favorites. Featured on the program will be the world premiere of a work commissioned especially for the occasion, Fanfare, Pastorale, and Allegro, by noted New England composer Peter Hazzard. Among the other works on the program are Rossini’s Overture to The Barber of Seville, Holst’s Second Suite in F for Military Band, and selections from the musicals Phantom of the Opera and The Music Man. Col. Baldwin, who grew up listening to Sousa and his band and played in The Goldman Band while a student at Juilliard in the 1930’s, will conduct Goldman’s On the Mall March and Sousa’s The Stars and Stripes Forever March as they were originally performed.
Admission is $10. For students, seniors, and Atlanta Artscard and Atlanta Planit members, admission is $5. PBA Advantage members receive two for one admission. Tickets will be sold only at the door – no advance sales.
Further information about the Band is available at its web site, www.calcb.org
