PORT ANGELES — The Sequim City Band will present “Sounds of the Season” at 3 p.m. Sunday.
The free holiday concert will be at the Port Angeles Performing Arts Center, 304 E. Park Ave., Port Angeles.
The program will feature selections from “A.C. – The Man Who Saved Christmas.” The musical was inspired by the life of A.C. Gilbert and was co-written by Jay Gitlin and the band’s principal clarinetist, Vincent Oneppo.
Gilbert, the creator of the Erector Set and other educational toys, lobbied President Woodrow Wilson’s Council of National Defense to not place a blanket prohibition on toy production to ration materials vital for war production.
The Boston Globe announced the success of his campaign with the front-page headline “The Man Who Saved Christmas.”
The concert will open with “Fanfare for the Festival of Lights” by Evan VanDoren, followed by Julie Giroux’s “Christmas Toons,” a medley of classic Christmas cartoon themes, including tunes from “Frosty the Snowman” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”
Also on the program are “Sleigh Ride” by Leroy Anderson, “The Sussex Mummers’ Christmas Carol” by Percy Grainger, “Morning Alleluias for the Winter Solstice” by Ron Nelson, “BaShana HaBa’ah” (“Next Year,” in Hebrew) by Nurit Hirsh.
The concert will close with a medley featuring two songs by Irving Berlin, “Happy Holiday” and “White Christmas” arranged by Ted Ricketts.
The Sequim City Band’s indoor concert season will return to the Port Angeles Performing Arts Center on March 9 with “Dawn to Dusk.”
For more information, visit www.sequimcityband.org.
