AVB Community Band Concert

For immediate release The wait is almost over! The full AVB Community Band is back for the fifth of its eight-concert season on Monday, March 18, at 7 p.m. at the Ashwaubenon Performing Arts Center (PAC), 2391 S. Ridge Road in Ashwaubenon. “We Are Family” has been the AVB Community Band’s theme for its 42nd season, and this concert speaks to the world as family in “One World United.” Donations will be accepted following the concert. We thank Schroeder’s Flowers in Allouez for being our concert sponsor this evening. Mike Ajango is director of the 75-member AVB Community Band. Paul Oleksy is associate director. “The world is an amazing place. So many cultures and so much history. One thing that unites us all — no matter the country we live in or that of our ancestors — is music,” said Ajango. “In March, we will explore many of the composers that have had an influence on music over the years,” he said. Most, if not all, of the pieces will be very familiar to concert-goers. The show opens with the medley “Latin Celebration,” followed by “Italian Polka,” first written for two pianos by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The band will then perform Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma,” most recently made famous by the Three Tenors. St. Patrick’s Day will be celebrated with the traditional “Rakes of Mallow” (from “Irish Suite”). The first half of the show concludes with Tschaikovsky’s “March Slav.” The whimsical “Funiculi, Funicula” opens the second half. It was written in 1880 by Luigi Denza to commemorate the opening of the first funicular railway on Mount Vesuvius. The rousing “Hungarian Dance #5” was among Johannes Brahms’ very popular 21 dance compositions, most based on Hungarian themes and completed in 1879. The AVB Community Band then performs Dmitri Shostakovich’s “Waltz #2,” which is among the Russian composer’s most famous works. Get ready to clap in time to the “Radetzky March” by Johann Strauss. It was first performed in Vienna, Austria, in 1848, with the crowd spontaneously clapping and stomping their feet at its debut – today, the rousing celebration continues to be a tradition in the city. The evening concludes with pure Americana and a performance of “John Williams: Symphonic Marches,” featuring “The Raider March,” “Imperial March” and “Olympic Fanfare and Theme,” which will become very familiar at this summer’s Paris Olympics. Formerly known as the Allouez Village Band, the organization rebranded for its 40th anniversary season as the “All Volunteer Band” (AVB) to better reflect its membership from numerous communities in the area. The final two concerts of the 2023-2024 season will also be performed at the Ashwaubenon PAC. “All Our Best” will be performed on Monday, April 15, and “Amazing and Outrageous” will be performed on Monday, May 13. For more information, see avbcommunityband.org or our Facebook page.

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