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The Marine Band performed a Summer Fare concert at the U.S. Capitol on June 10, 2015. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Rust/released) - The Marine Band performed a Summer Fare concert at the U.S. Capitol on June 10, 2015. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Rust/released)

Summer Fare Season Begins with a Scottish Accent

“The President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band will launch its Summer Fare season at 8 p.m., Wednesday, June 1 and Thursday, June 2 with concerts that will take patrons to a galaxy far, far away with the March of the Resistance from Star Wars: The Force Awakens by John Williams. Conducted by Assistant Director 1st Lt. Ryan J. Nowlin, the program also has a distinctly Scottish accent with selections such as Percy Grainger’s “Ye Banks and Braes o’ Bonnie Doon,” Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s “The Heather on the Hill” from Brigadoon, sung by mezzo-soprano Gunnery Sgt. Sara Sheffield, and John Hartmann’s cornet solo, “Blue Bells of Scotland.”

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Brass Quintet to Perform at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Museum in Fremont, Ohio. At 3 p.m., Saturday, May 28, the brass quintet will perform a concert on the veranda of the Hayes estate and will also provide music for the Centennial Celebration at 1 p.m., Sunday, May 29. - Brass Quintet to Perform at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Museum in Fremont, Ohio. At 3 p.m., Saturday, May 28, the brass quintet will perform a concert on the veranda of the Hayes estate and will also provide music for the Centennial Celebration at 1 p.m., Sunday, May 29.

Centennial Celebration in Fremont

As Americans observe Memorial Day with parades and concerts this weekend, a brass quintet from “The President’s Own” will mark the occasion with special fanfare at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Museum in Fremont, Ohio. At 3 p.m., Saturday, May 28, the brass quintet will perform a concert on the veranda of the Hayes estate and will also provide music for the Centennial Celebration at 1 p.m., Sunday, May 29.

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At Wolf Trap’s Summer Blast Off!

On Sunday, May 29, the Marine Band will perform Summer Blast Off!, a Memorial Day weekend concert at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts’ Filene Center in Vienna, Va. This year’s event is a patriotic musical extravaganza followed by a thrilling fireworks display; it is free and open to the public and will begin at 8 p.m.

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LATIN JAZZ ENSEMBLE: Sunday, May 8 at 2 p.m. (EST), Sousa Band Hall, Washington, D.C. Coordinated by pianist Gunnery Sgt. AnnaMaria Mottola, this Latin jazz infused concert will feature music by such artists as Chick Corea, Paquito D’Rivera, Tito Puente, Oscar Hernandez, Consuelo Velazquez, Heraclio Fernandez, Wayne Wallace, Michel Camilo, Airto Moreira, and Nova & Jory.STRING ENSEMBLES: Sunday, May 22, at 2 p.m. (EST), Sousa Band Hall, Washington, D.C. Coordinated by violist Gunnery Sgt. Tam Tran, the all-strings program will feature multiple ensembles, from solo violin to string quintet and sextet. Selections include Arvo Pärt’s Fratres, Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, Opus 4, Niccolò Paganini’s Caprice No. 1 in E, Opus 1, and Robert Schumann’s Quintet in E-flat for Piano and Strings, Opus 44.Both concerts are free and no tickets are required. Free parking is available. Both concerts will stream live on the Marine Band website. - LATIN JAZZ ENSEMBLE: Sunday, May 8 at 2 p.m. (EST), Sousa Band Hall, Washington, D.C. Coordinated by pianist Gunnery Sgt. AnnaMaria Mottola, this Latin jazz infused concert will feature music by such artists as Chick Corea, Paquito D’Rivera, Tito Puente, Oscar Hernandez, Consuelo Velazquez, Heraclio Fernandez, Wayne Wallace, Michel Camilo, Airto Moreira, and Nova & Jory. STRING ENSEMBLES: Sunday, May 22, at 2 p.m. (EST), Sousa Band Hall, Washington, D.C. Coordinated by violist Gunnery Sgt. Tam Tran, the all-strings program will feature multiple ensembles, from solo violin to string quintet and sextet. Selections include Arvo Pärt’s Fratres, Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, Opus 4, Niccolò Paganini’s Caprice No. 1 in E, Opus 1, and Robert Schumann’s Quintet in E-flat for Piano and Strings, Opus 44. Both concerts are free and no tickets are required. Free parking is available. Both concerts will stream live on the Marine Band website.

2016 Chamber Music Series Concludes with the Music of Paganini and Schumann

The Spring 2016 Chamber Music Series will conclude with an all-string performance at 2 p.m., Sunday, May 22 at the John Philip Sousa Band Hall in southeast Washington, D.C. Viola player Gunnery Sgt. Tam Tran, who coordinated and programmed the concert, was inspired by the inevitable influence composers have on each other. “I didn’t have the intention to program music that would be closely connected, but the 12-tone serialism of Arnold Schoenberg influenced several of Arvo Pärt’s compositions,” he explained. “The performing pyrotechnics of Niccolò Paganini inspired so many musicians and composers, including Robert Schumann. I also couldn’t help but wonder: are the arpeggios that begin Paganini’s Caprice No. 1 musical material that may have inspired the beginning of Arvo Pärt’s Fratres for violin and piano?”

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Marine Jazz Combo Invited to Perform at the Juneau Jazz and Classics Festival in Alaska

The Marine Jazz Combo will make its third appearance in 10 years on May 15-18 at the Juneau Jazz and Classics Festival (JJ&C) in Alaska. The annual festival, which began in 1987, seeks to provide a variety of rich musical experiences and instructional seminars at different venues in Juneau and remote towns in southeast Alaska. It’s designed to inspire, enrich and educate music lovers of all ages and economic backgrounds with a diversity of styles within jazz, classical and blues genres.

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Sunday, May 15 at 2 p.m., NOVA, Alexandria, Va. This concert explores how images and imagination are turned into music, with inspiration taken from ancient ballads, painting, sculpture, poetry, photographs, and film. Each of the works presented on this program began its life as a very personal study and interpretation by the composer. Yet music possesses the potential to move well beyond the images that inspire it, becoming living art that evolves with each performance and brings with it the invitation to create new pictures within the mind of the listener. The concert is free and no tickets are required. Free parking is available - Sunday, May 15 at 2 p.m., NOVA, Alexandria, Va. This concert explores how images and imagination are turned into music, with inspiration taken from ancient ballads, painting, sculpture, poetry, photographs, and film. Each of the works presented on this program began its life as a very personal study and interpretation by the composer. Yet music possesses the potential to move well beyond the images that inspire it, becoming living art that evolves with each performance and brings with it the invitation to create new pictures within the mind of the listener. The concert is free and no tickets are required. Free parking is available

Picture Studies

The Marine Band will present a program titled “Picture Studies” at 2 p.m., Sunday, May 15 at Northern Virginia Community College’s Schlesinger Concert Hall in Alexandria. Conducted by Lieutenant Col. Jason K. Fettig, this concert explores how images and imagination are turned into music, with inspiration taken from ancient ballads, painting, sculpture, poetry, photographs, and film. The concert is free and tickets are not required.

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The Marine Band performed the Young People's Concert: Meet the Band, which included an instrument petting zoo, on Sunday, April 24, at Northern Virginia Community College's Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center in Alexandria, Va. (USMC photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Rust/released). - The Marine Band performed the Young People's Concert: Meet the Band, which included an instrument petting zoo, on Sunday, April 24, at Northern Virginia Community College's Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center in Alexandria, Va. (USMC photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Rust/released).

Marine Band Assistant Director to Guest Conduct at the University of New Hampshire

On the heels of a successful Young People’s Concert, Assistant Director 1st Lt. Ryan J. Nowlin once again returns to his music education roots as the guest clinician and composer for the University of New Hampshire’s (UNH) Wind Band Invitational on May 4, 2016. Dr. Andrew Boysen, the UNH conducting professor and director of the Wind Symphony initiated this non-competitive event where seven high school bands will receive a 45-minute clinic from Boysen and a 40-minute clinic from Nowlin. “All the bands will be performing my music,” Nowlin explained. “Dr. Boysen builds the invitational around composers, so the visiting high school bands will each be playing something of mine.” The idea is that working with an actual composer on his own music will strengthen the experience for the students.

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LATIN JAZZ ENSEMBLE: Sunday, May 8 at 2 p.m. (EST), Sousa Band Hall, Washington, D.C. Coordinated by pianist Gunnery Sgt. AnnaMaria Mottola, this Latin jazz infused concert will feature music by such artists as Chick Corea, Paquito D’Rivera, Tito Puente, Oscar Hernandez, Consuelo Velazquez, Heraclio Fernandez, Wayne Wallace, Michel Camilo, Airto Moreira, and Nova & Jory.STRING ENSEMBLES: Sunday, May 22, at 2 p.m. (EST), Sousa Band Hall, Washington, D.C. Coordinated by violist Gunnery Sgt. Tam Tran, the all-strings program will feature multiple ensembles, from solo violin to string quintet and sextet. Selections include Arvo Pärt’s Fratres, Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, Opus 4, Niccolò Paganini’s Caprice No. 1 in E, Opus 1, and Robert Schumann’s Quintet in E-flat for Piano and Strings, Opus 44.Both concerts are free and no tickets are required. Free parking is available. Both concerts will stream live on the Marine Band website. - LATIN JAZZ ENSEMBLE: Sunday, May 8 at 2 p.m. (EST), Sousa Band Hall, Washington, D.C. Coordinated by pianist Gunnery Sgt. AnnaMaria Mottola, this Latin jazz infused concert will feature music by such artists as Chick Corea, Paquito D’Rivera, Tito Puente, Oscar Hernandez, Consuelo Velazquez, Heraclio Fernandez, Wayne Wallace, Michel Camilo, Airto Moreira, and Nova & Jory. STRING ENSEMBLES: Sunday, May 22, at 2 p.m. (EST), Sousa Band Hall, Washington, D.C. Coordinated by violist Gunnery Sgt. Tam Tran, the all-strings program will feature multiple ensembles, from solo violin to string quintet and sextet. Selections include Arvo Pärt’s Fratres, Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, Opus 4, Niccolò Paganini’s Caprice No. 1 in E, Opus 1, and Robert Schumann’s Quintet in E-flat for Piano and Strings, Opus 44. Both concerts are free and no tickets are required. Free parking is available. Both concerts will stream live on the Marine Band website.

Spice Up Mother’s Day With A Latin Jazz Concert

On Sunday, May 8 at 2 p.m. EDT members of the Marine Band will present a dynamic Latin Jazz fusion program featuring salsa, Afro-Cuban, Venezuelan music, Mambo, cha-cha, and a few modern arrangements in John Philip Sousa Band Hall in Washington, D.C. The concert is free and will also stream live on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_0SfI3v-9M.

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