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Sunday, March 22 at 2 p.m. - This unusual program is almost entirely filled with music that will be heard for the first time in its current incarnation, from new transcriptions of both contemporary and well-known orchestral compositions to the world première of a new work by Narong Prangcharoen, recipient of the prestigious Barlow Prize. These first performances will also be complemented by a debut of a different sort, when euphonium player Joe Broom (pictured above), prize winner of the Marine Band’s Concerto Competition for High School Musicians, takes the stage to perform with “The President’s Own.” The concert, which will be held at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center in Alexandria, Va., is free and no tickets are required. - Sunday, March 22 at 2 p.m. - This unusual program is almost entirely filled with music that will be heard for the first time in its current incarnation, from new transcriptions of both contemporary and well-known orchestral compositions to the world première of a new work by Narong Prangcharoen, recipient of the prestigious Barlow Prize. These first performances will also be complemented by a debut of a different sort, when euphonium player Joe Broom (pictured above), prize winner of the Marine Band’s Concerto Competition for High School Musicians, takes the stage to perform with “The President’s Own.” The concert, which will be held at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center in Alexandria, Va., is free and no tickets are required.

Thursday, March 19 at 7 p.m. - The Marine Band concert will include music by Samuel Jones, David Conte, Maurice Ravel, Bernard Hermann, David Gillingham, John Philip Sousa, and John Williams’ “Adventures on Earth” from E. T. (The Extra-Terrestrial). The concert is part of the National Trumpet Competition, one of the nation’s premier organizations for trumpet players, and will feature guest soloist John Rommel. Rommel, performing Gillingham’s When Speaks the Signal-Trumpet Tone, is trumpet professor at Indiana University in Bloomington and former principal trumpet of the Louisville Orchestra in Kentucky.The concert is free, but tickets are recommended and are limited to two per request beginning Mar. 9. For Tickets, please visit messiah.edu/tickets or call the Messiah College Ticket Office at 717-691-6036. Patrons without tickets will be admitted to the concert at 6:45 p.m. The concert will take place in Parmer Hall, Calvin and Janet High Center of Worship and Performing Arts at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pa. - Thursday, March 19 at 7 p.m. - The Marine Band concert will include music by Samuel Jones, David Conte, Maurice Ravel, Bernard Hermann, David Gillingham, John Philip Sousa, and John Williams’ “Adventures on Earth” from E. T. (The Extra-Terrestrial). The concert is part of the National Trumpet Competition, one of the nation’s premier organizations for trumpet players, and will feature guest soloist John Rommel. Rommel, performing Gillingham’s When Speaks the Signal-Trumpet Tone, is trumpet professor at Indiana University in Bloomington and former principal trumpet of the Louisville Orchestra in Kentucky. The concert is free, but tickets are recommended and are limited to two per request beginning Mar. 9. For Tickets, please visit messiah.edu/tickets or call the Messiah College Ticket Office at 717-691-6036. Patrons without tickets will be admitted to the concert at 6:45 p.m. The concert will take place in Parmer Hall, Calvin and Janet High Center of Worship and Performing Arts at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pa.

Sunday, March 15 at 2 p.m. - Musicians’ influences upon each other’s work can be traced throughout history. This program unites Johann Sebastian Bach with two composers whose music inspired him and was inspired by him. Benedetto Marcello’s celebrated oboe concerto, featuring Staff Sgt. Tessa Vinson, offers some of the most recognized melodies of the Baroque period. Over the years, the piece was mistakenly attributed to other Baroque composers, including Bach, who after hearing it was compelled to arrange the concerto in its entirety for solo harpsichord. Nearly 80 years after Bach’s death, a young Felix Mendelssohn similarly arranged and conducted Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. In this same year, Mendelssohn made the first sketch of his immortal Scottish symphony, which he then set aside until the years preceding its 1842 première. The concert, which will be held at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center in Alexandria, Va., is free and no tickets are required. - Sunday, March 15 at 2 p.m. - Musicians’ influences upon each other’s work can be traced throughout history. This program unites Johann Sebastian Bach with two composers whose music inspired him and was inspired by him. Benedetto Marcello’s celebrated oboe concerto, featuring Staff Sgt. Tessa Vinson, offers some of the most recognized melodies of the Baroque period. Over the years, the piece was mistakenly attributed to other Baroque composers, including Bach, who after hearing it was compelled to arrange the concerto in its entirety for solo harpsichord. Nearly 80 years after Bach’s death, a young Felix Mendelssohn similarly arranged and conducted Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. In this same year, Mendelssohn made the first sketch of his immortal Scottish symphony, which he then set aside until the years preceding its 1842 première. The concert, which will be held at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center in Alexandria, Va., is free and no tickets are required.

Sunday, March 8 at 2 p.m. - Join the Marine Band for a program that promises to be as breathtaking as the northern lights, combining the works of chief Scandinavian composers and culminating in a fantastic array of musical brilliance that is equally as electrically charged. The concert will include works by Carl Nielsen, Edvard Grieg, and Magnus Lindberg, as well as Søren Hyldgaard’s Rapsodia Borealis featuring principal trombone Gunnery Sgt. Samuel Barlow. The program will also feature the winning march of the Marine Band’s 2014 Sousa’s March Mania tournament: the well-known work Entry March of the Boyares by Norway’s own Johan Halvorsen. The concert, which will be held at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center in Alexandria, Va., is free and no tickets are required. - Sunday, March 8 at 2 p.m. - Join the Marine Band for a program that promises to be as breathtaking as the northern lights, combining the works of chief Scandinavian composers and culminating in a fantastic array of musical brilliance that is equally as electrically charged. The concert will include works by Carl Nielsen, Edvard Grieg, and Magnus Lindberg, as well as Søren Hyldgaard’s Rapsodia Borealis featuring principal trombone Gunnery Sgt. Samuel Barlow. The program will also feature the winning march of the Marine Band’s 2014 Sousa’s March Mania tournament: the well-known work Entry March of the Boyares by Norway’s own Johan Halvorsen. The concert, which will be held at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center in Alexandria, Va., is free and no tickets are required.