Kingdom of the Sun Concert Band
Kingdom Of The Sun Concert Band
Originally founded in March 1990, the Kingdom of the Sun Concert Band is an all-volunteer organization. The band rehearses every Monday evening. Our repertoire offers a wide variety of music including marches, big band medleys, classical, popular music, show tunes, and patriotic tributes. The band performs throughout the year at venues in the greater Ocala / Marion County area, all of which are free and open to the public.
Upcoming Performances
The Kingdom of the Sun Concert Band,
under the direction of Les Muncaster,
invites you to
July Concert Series
"BY REQUEST"
Saturday, July 29, 2017 at 2:00 pm
Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 3:00 pm
Marion Technical Institute Auditorium
1614 SE Fort King Street, Ocala
These annual patron-favorite concerts include many of the requests that audience members have submitted throughout the year. We are happy to perform your favorites as they are ours as well. They include: Highlights from "Jersey Boys", Big Bands In Concert, Gustav Holtz' Second Suite in F, "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from Phantom of the Opera, Radetzke March, Fairest Of The Fair, Send In The Clowns, and much more.
As always, all performances are FREE and open to the public. Donations are welcome.
Thanks to Community Sponsor
Mr. & Mrs. Stan Hanson
Musicians Needed
The Kingdom of the Sun Concert Band is now taking applications for band membership. Especially needed are clarinet players. We welcome members of all ages.
To inquire about membership, please enter your experience level and submit your interest.
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"What Is MUSIC?"
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Music is a SCIENCE
It is exact, specific; and it demands exact acoustics. A counductor's full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time.
Music is MATHEMATICAL
It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done, not worked out on paper.
Music is a FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the notation is certainly not English - but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and univeral language.
Music is HISTORY
Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creations, often even the country and/or racial feeling.
Music is PHYSICAL EDUCATION
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek, and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
Music is all of these things, but most of all . . .
Music is ART
It allows a human being to take all these dry, technical (but difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing science cannot duplicate -- humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will.
Thank you to Pastor Jim Young for sharing this appropriate description.
Program Advertising
Your business can now advertise in our concert programs, which are viewed by hundreds of potential customers at each Kingdom of the Sun Concert Band performance (8 concerts per year).
Business card size ads may be puchased for only $100 per year (September through August).
If you are interested in placing an ad, please click HERE to contact us for more information.
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