The Moore County Concert Band
"North Carolina's Sweet Sounds of the Sandhills"
David Seiberling, Musical Director
Next Free Concert
Sunday, May 25, 2008
(See Schedule)
www.moorecountyband.com
Moore County Concert Band - 5/9/2008
P. O. Box 4662
Pinehurst, North Carolina 28374
Accociation of Concert Bands
Flute Soloist Lindsay Leach
Ms. Lindsay Leach will perform at the 2:00pm, Sunday, May 25 with the Moore County Band Concert at the Carolina Hotel. Ms. Leach will play Gabriel Faure’s "Fantasie" for flute and wind ensemble.
Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2007 flutist Lindsay Leach joined the UNC Pembroke Flute faculty and the Methodist University Flute faculty. She is currently Solo Piccolo in the Fayetteville Symphony as well as Director of Orchestras and IB/AP Music Theory at Pinecrest High School in Southern Pines, North Carolina.
Ms. Leach earned her Bachelor and Master degrees from the Peabody Conservatory. In 2004, she became the first person to graduate in the Piccolo Performance program at Peabody, and shortly thereafter, enrolled in the Royal Academy of Music in London, UK studying modern flute, early flutes, and piccolo. She finished her European studies at the 2005 Académie International d’Ete de Nice, France.
Lindsay has had several appearances recently; the 2008 Frank Bowen Young Artist Competition, 2007 Flute Society Mid-South Young Artist Competition, 2006 Byron Hester and Myrna Brown Solo Flute Competitions and 2007 Baroque Artist Competitions. In November 2007, she was selected as one of three American flutists to compete at the first ever Maxence Larrieu International Flute Competition in Nice, France.
More information on Lindsay and her performances can be found at www.LALflute.com .
MOORE COUNTY BAND CONCERT
The Moore County Concert band under the direction of Music Director David Seiberling will perform on Sunday, May 25, 2008 at 2:00pm in the Grand Ballroom of the Carolina Hotel. Lindsay Leach will be the guest soloist performing on the flute. Ms. Leach will play Gabriel Faure’s "Fantaisie" for solo flute and wind ensemble.
Director Seiberling has selected music that should both please the audience and challenge the musicians. The program will open with the third movement of John Phillip Sousa’s "Looking Upward Suite - Mars and Venus", and will include Leonard Bernstein’s "America" from "West Side Story.
"At Dawn They Slept" was premiered at Pearl Harbor. This work is a musical remembrance of that fateful day that launched the United States into WWII. The piece opens in the days preceding the attack with a beautiful and flowing melody featuring the woodwinds. December 7 begins with a lone distant bugler, but with ominous undertones foretelling the chaos to follow. The attack is depicted using texture, dissonances and percussion. In the final segment the opening melody returns juxtaposed over a strong rhythmic pulse in a hopeful look to the future. The piece is a powerful musical statement from one of today’s most gifted composers, Jay Bocook.
The band has made a tradition of honoring our military through music. George Washington established the US Navy in 1775 with only three armed schooners. The Navy was promptly disbanded after the Revolutionary War ended and then was reestablished in 1797. The band will play "Anchors Away" the official march of the United States Navy.
The merchant marine is not a uniformed military service. Merchant mariners move cargo and passengers between nations and within the United States. However, in time of war, in accordance with The Merchant Marine Act of 1936 they are considered military personnel. The Merchant Marines have their own official march, "Our Merchant Marine March" which the band will perform.
The concert will also include several other musical surprises.
For additional information please call 295-9023. The band’s next concert will be Friday, July 4, 2008 at 5:00pm in the Carolina Hotel’s Grand Ballroom.
May 25, 2008