ORILLIA SILVER BAND
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The Orillia Silver Band will be performing a Benefit Concert for Hillcrest Lodge on Sunday, Oct. 27 at 2:30 p.m. at the Orillia Opera House. Tickets are available from the Opera House Box Office.
Hillcrest Lodge is a non-profit, rent geared-to-income building with thirty-one apartments, providing a secure and healthy environment for low income and vulnerable seniors. In addition to offering seniors a community, Hillcrest Lodge also provides thee meals a day in a central dining room and access to a support system.
Hillcrest Lodge is a non-profit, rent geared-to-income building with thirty-one apartments, providing a secure and healthy environment for low income and vulnerable seniors. In addition to offering seniors a community, Hillcrest Lodge also provides thee meals a day in a central dining room and access to a support system.
Conducted by Neil Barlow, well known in the region’s music circles, the Silver Band will open the concert with Paul Lovatt-Cooper’s The Light Fantastic, encapsulating the grandeur and spirit of the 2008 Olympic Games whilst also paying homage to the host city of Beijing.
The band will be performing John William’s march, Midway, an exciting tune called A Redbridge Raga by Chris Wilcox - which is a mix of modern British pop with Indian folk music elements - and a selection from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt.
Featured on the program is Steven Verhelst’s beautiful, A Song for Japan, dedicated to the victims and relatives of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The band will also perform Paul Lovatt-Cooper’s An Untold Story, featuring Tenor Horn Soloist Rita Arendz and James Curnow’s Appalachian Mountain Folk Song Suite.
The band will wrap up the concert with Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, complete with cannons, bells and other special effects.
Please plan to attend this entertaining afternoon of brass band music and support Hillcrest Lodge as it continues to provide support for seniors in need.
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