This week honors Cedar Rapids’ Czech heritage with a few Czech-inspired pieces! Orchestra Iowa conductor Tim Hankewich will join us as a guest conductor along with the CRMB Young Artist Competition Runner-Up Lexi Forstrom on alto sax. Concert begins at 7:30!
- The Star Spangled Banner, performed by Emma Deignan, Xavier High School
- Slavonic Dance No. 1 (Antonin Dvorak, arr. Tobani)
- The Gladiator (John Philip Sousa)
- The Pines of the Appian Way (Ottorino Respighi, arr. dElia & Leizden) Featuring Tim Hankewich, Conductor (http://www.orchestraiowa.org/Orchestra/Conductor/1/Timothy-Hankewich.aspx)
- Barbara Polka (F. Kovarik)
- Selections from “Sweeney Todd” (Stephen Sondheim, arr. Bulla)
- Fantasia for Alto Saxophone (Claude T. Smith) Featuring CRMB Young Artist Competition Runner-Up Lexi Forstrom, Alto Saxophone
- Big Band Tribute (arr. John Wasson) Olympia Hippodrome (Russell Alexander)
- Cedar Rapids Song of Dedication, performed by Emma Deignan, Xavier High School
