This season, we are looking forward to eleven very exciting and challenging concerts with new literature, old favorites and very special guests.
On January 29 we will be performing in Sugden Park as part of a weekend long celebration of the arts sponsored by The Bayshore Cultural and Performing Arts, Inc. (CAPA). In March we will present two special Saturday evening concerts at a local high school. The first will celebrate our 40th Anniversary Season with a star studded guest list to reprise recent performances with the NCB. The second will feature Geoff Gallante, the trumpet prodigy that “brought the house down” with his performance last year.
You won’t want to miss a single concert!
October 23, 2011 Concert (Sponsor – Attorney, Alan S. Novick)
The Naples Concert Band kicks off its 40th Anniversary Season with a wide variety of musical styles. Marches, classical pieces, popular standards, Broadway show tunes and vocals will be featured.
Gifted southwest Florida composer Melinda Zenor will introduce her new composition, “Danza Espanola”, and Naples own Flute Cocktail will join the NCB with a special arrangement of Claude Bolling’s “Baroque and Blue”.
Another highlight of the afternoon will be the exciting voice of Amy Bright. Amy will be featured in two popular standards: “Blue Moon” and “They Can’t Take That Away From Me”.
Music Director/Conductor Harris Lanzel will lead the band starting at 2 p.m. on Sunday, October 23, 2011 at the Cambier Park Band Shell.
November 13, 2011 Concert (Sponsor – Miromar Outlets)
The Naples Concert Band under the direction of Harris Lanzel will present an exciting and inspirational program highlighting our patriotic heritage.
Well known speaker and commentator Peter Thomas (son of Lowell Thomas) will recite “I Am The Nation” to Carmen Dragon’s “America The Beautiful”.
Vocalist’s Craig Greusel and Jenny Bintliff add their special touch to “God Bless the U.S.A.” and “America, The Dream Goes On”.
Dr. Michael Baron, will wow with his virtuoso interpretation of the Civil War era “L’ Union” by Louis Gottschalk.
Mayor Bill Barnett will make his conducting debut and the Bach Ensemble Troubadours will join the NCB in two very impressive arrangements: The Wilhousky “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and “Armed Forces, The Pride of America”.
This special concert starts at 2 p.m. on Sunday, November 13, 2011 at the Cambier Park Band Shell.
December 4, 2011 Concert (Sponsor – Harris Private Bank
The Holiday Season is here, and the Naples Concert Band will provide just the right music to lift everyone’s holiday spirit.
Ten year old Naples soprano phenom, Zofia Majewski, will be featured singing Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Pie Jesu” and the traditional “O Holy Night”.
The Bay Singers vocal ensemble will fill the stage at Cambier Park when they join the NCB in three very entertaining arrangements: “Irving Berlin’s Christmas”, “On With The Snow” and Leroy Anderson’s “A Christmas Festival”.
“A Hanukkah Festival”, “C’est Noel”, “March of the Toys” and “On This Day” are a few of the other arrangements that will round out the holiday event.
Harris Lanzel conducts the band at 2 p.m. on Sunday, December 4, 2011 at the Cambier Park Band Shell.
January 15, 2012 Concert (Sponsor – UBS Financial Services)
The first concert of the New Year will feature vocalist Craig Greusel, Percussionist Jym Moore and the NCB Saxophone Ensemble.
Jym Moore will be highlighted in a special marimba solo entitled “El Relicario”,
and the NCB Saxophone Ensemble will be front and center in Jack Bullock’s “Five to Go”.
Craig Greusel will perform his vocal magic in two production numbers; “Man of La Mancha” and “The Wizard of Oz”.
Several spirited marches and a variety of exciting concert band arrangements complete the afternoon program.
The Naples Concert Band, under the direction of Harris Lanzel, will begin the concert at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012 at the Camber Park Band Shell.
February 12, 2012 Concert (Sponsor – Cameron Real Estate)
A musical smorgasbord of concert band literature awaits those that attend the Naples Concert Band’s Sunday concert in the park! You name it, we have it!
Trombones will rule the first half of the concert as student soloist Trace Hance along with his mom and dad perform “Concerto for Trombones” by Norman Leyden. Just before intermission the entire Zumbrun family, all five of them trombone players, will be featured in Henry Fillmore’s “Hallelujah Trombone”. The Tuba section will shine at the end of the concert with a virtuoso performance of “Tuba Tiger Rag”.
In-between, the NCB will perform the impressive “Festivo” by Clifton Williams and Frank Summers will narrate “Broadway Journey: 25 Years of Golden Classics”.
The fabulous voices of Duncan and Janine Connell will also join the band presenting “Memory” from “Cats” and “Love Changes Everything” from the new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Aspects of Love”
Enjoy the sights and sounds of Naples’ own concert band under the direction of Harris Lanzel. The program will begin at 2 p.m. on Sunday February 12, 2012 at the Cambier Park Band Shell.
40th Anniversary Concert March 3 and 4, 2012 (Quarles and Brady, Attorneys)
A star studded line up of guests will join the Naples Concert Band on March 3 and 4 to celebrate the NCB’s 40th Anniversary. Each guest will reprise one of their most memorable performances.
Dr. Michael Baron – Pianist
Janine and Duncan Connell – Vocalists
Peter Thomas – Narrator
Gale Waterland Scott – Conductor Laureate
Frank Summers – Synthesizer
Amy Bright – Vocalist
Malinda Zenor – Composer and Pianist
Lisa Federico – Vocalist
Jenny Bintliff – Vocalist
Craig Greusel – Vocalist
Glenn Basham – Violin and Harmonica
The band will also perform the dynamic “Festive Overture” by Dmitri Shostakovich and feature the trumpet section in “March of the Steel Men” by Charles Belsterling.
Come and enjoy 2 nostalgic concerts as the band and its guests’ celebrate their contribution of 40 years of spectacular music for the Naples community.
An indoor concert will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, March 3 at the Lely high school auditorium. Sunday’s concert will be from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Cambier Park Band Shell. Harris Lanzel will conduct the Band.
March 24 and 25, 2012 Concert (Sponsor – Miromar Outlets)
He’s back! Trumpet prodigy, Geoffrey Gallante will again join the NCB on March 24 and 25, 2012 for an encore performance to the overflowing crowds he wowed last season. “He’s amazing”, “Wow”, and “He has to be the best ever” were just a few of the comments from last season’s audience. The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts stated that “Geoffrey possesses the kind of musical giftedness very seldom seen even among such a rarefied and exclusive group as child musical prodigies”.
Geoffrey will be performing an all new program including three solos from the Wynton Marsalis CD “Carnaval”.
To accommodate all those interested in hearing Geoffrey’s performance, the NCB is offering two concerts; and indoor concert on Saturday, March 24 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Lely high school auditorium and an outdoor concert on Sunday, March 25 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Cambier Park Band Shell. Harris Lanzel will conduct the Band.
Friday April 13 Concert (Sponsor – IMA Creative)
The Naples concert band will present their final concert of this season on Friday April 13, 2011 at the Cambier Park Band Shell. The band’s student members will be recognized and this seasons student scholarships will be announced.
A lighter concert fare will be offered featuring the vocal artistry of Jenny Bintliff, Peggy Fredrickson, and Todd Henderson. They will be singing a montage of 1920’s songs entitled “Twentiana” and Rodgers and Hammersteins’s “The King and I”.
Charles Carters “Overture For Winds”, Chuck Mangione’s “Children of Sanchez”, Michael Brown’s “The Genius of Ray Charles” and “Selections from Mamma Mia” are just a few of the musical gems that will be presented.
Harris Lanzel will bring the baton down at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 13, 2012 at the Cambier Park Band Shell
