Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts Presents THE WEST POINT CONCERT BAND, 4/28

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College (BCBC) presents The West Point Concert Band on Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 2pm. This event is free and open to the public. All seating is general admission, and no tickets will be issued.

The West Point Concert Band is the oldest active band in the U.S. Army, performing concerts, military ceremonies, and at athletic events for the United States Corps of Cadets at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, NY. The band has served the nation for almost 200 years, performing for U.S. Presidents, Heads of State, and foreign dignitaries. It has played at venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Tanglewood, and has been showcased several times with the New York Philharmonic, continuing a long-standing collaboration with America's oldest orchestra.

At Carnegie Hall, the West Point Band premiered Morton Gould's Symphony for Band in celebration of the U.S. Military Academy's sesquicentennial in 1952. Fifty years later, the band returned to Carnegie Hall to celebrate the Academy's bicentennial with selected works from more than 35 commissions that honored the 200 year tradition. Composers who wrote for that project include Samuel Adler, Eric Ewazen, Donald Grantham, Joseph Turrin, and James Kimo Williams.

Comprised of graduates from America's finest music schools, the professional musicians of the Concert Band are honored to provide world-class music to educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets and to serve as ambassadors of the United States Military Academy, instilling the best of national values, spirit and patriotism in the American public.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
Walt Whitman Theatre at Brooklyn College
2/5 trains to Brooklyn College/Flatbush Avenue

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