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CHORDS FOR KIDS: LEGENDS, LORDS, AND
WIZARDS
Wakefield's own Middlesex Concert Band's
third annual children's
concert, "Chords for Kids: Legends, Lords, and
Wizards", will be
presented on Sunday, September 16,
2007 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM at the
Americal Civic Center in Wakefield. The band will provide
fun and great
music for children (and their parents) that explores children's
fairy
tales and stories. Musical highlights include the "Night
on Bald
Mountain", "Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban",
"Robin Hood:
Prince of Thieves" and "The Hut of the Baba Yaga".
Children will have a chance to win an opportunity
to conduct the band
in Souza's legendary march, "The Liberty Bell,"
parade around the
auditorium, meet the players and try out the various instruments
in an
instrument "petting zoo."
"Night on Bald Mountain" was used
with great effect in the Walt Disney
animated film, "Fantasia," where it depicts a witches'
Sabbath. Another
version is played in The Wizard of Oz when the Scarecrow,
the Tin Man,
and the Lion rescue Dorothy from the Witch's castle. "Harry
Potter &
the Prisoner of Azkaban" musically describes the young
wizard's third
adventure. Titles include the quirky "Hagrid," "Sirus'
Farewell" and
the familiar "Hedwig's Theme." "Robin Hood:
Prince of Thieves" is from
the 1991 film whose tagline was "For the good of all
men, and the love
of one woman, he fought to uphold justice by breaking the
law." "The
Hut of the Baba Yaga" describes the dwelling place of
Russian fairy
tale witch Baba Yaga who flies through the air in a mortar,
using the
pestle as a rudder. She lives in a log cabin with no windows
and no
doors that dances on chicken legs.
The Middlesex Concert Band has been contributing
to the rich cultural
life of the Greater Boston area for more than 50 years. Originally
conceived as the Redmen's Marching Band, it began as an offshoot
of the
fraternal organization for descendants of the Boston Tea Party
"Indians." In 1974, the Redmen's Band evolved into
the Middlesex
Concert Band, one of the area's outstanding community musical
organizations.
Come join us for a very fun afternoon.
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 Join
us!
Sunday, September 16th 2:00-3:30pm
Americal Civic Center,
467 Main Street, Wakefield, MA
Next to the Galvin Middle School. Directions
(pdf)
The center is handicapped accessible
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Tickets are $10 for adults,
$5 for children
or purchase a Family Pack (two adults, unlimited kids) for
just $20.
Call Chris at 781-279-0108
or email Tickets
for more information.
 This
project is supported, in part, by funding from the
Massachusetts Cultural Council, as administered locally by
the
Wakefield Cultural Council.
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Songs
we will be performing:
*Overture*
William Tell Overture
-- Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
*Suite*
A Longford Legend --
Robert Sheldon
I. A Longford Legend
II. Young Molly Bawn
III. Killyburn Brae
*Night
on Bald Mountian* -- Modest Moussorgsky arr. Maurice
Gardner
*American
March* The Liberty
Bell -- John Phillip Sousa
*Pictures
at an Exhibition* - Modest Moussorgsky arr. Erik
W.G. Leidzen
*Robin
Hood Prince of Thieves* -- Michael Kamen arr. Paul
Lavender
*Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban*
-- John Williams arr. Michael Story
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