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Prelude concert for the MSB

A great start to 2009 for the Melbourne Staff Band.

Melbourne Staff Band
 

The Melbourne Staff Band (MSB) will be presenting a prelude concert to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's (MSO) Summer Series Concert at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Saturday 14th February 2009.

Guest conductor

Professor David King will be the guest conductor for the prelude concert, and will conduct the band in Peter Graham's Windows of the World and Shine As The Light, Edward Gregson's revised scoring of Variations on Laudate Dominium, William Himes' arrangement of Amazing Grace and Goff Richards' arrangement of I'll Walk With God.

Soloists

Staff Bandmaster Ken Waterworth will retain the baton for Arthur Gullidge’s march Liberty and Erik Leidzen’s arrangement of Bach’s Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring. Neil Roper (trumpet/flugel horn) and Mark Hamilton (euphonium) will be the featured soloists in Blessed Assurance (Stephen Bulla) and Rondo Alla Turca (arr. William Gordon).

Free

The MSO Summer Series Concerts are free and Music Bowl gates open at 4.00 pm. The MSB prelude will commence at 5.15pm, concluding at 6.30pm. The MSO concert commences at 7.00pm.

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