Callanwolde Fine Arts Center invites you to a concert in the style of John Philip Sousa’s band of a century ago will be the final subscription series concert of the thirty-sixth season of the Callanwolde Concert Band with Raymond Handfield, Conductor, on Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 3:00 PM at Oak Grove United Methodist Church, 1722 Oak Grove Road, Decatur.

The program will include overtures, marches, and novelties typical of the period. Featured works include Sousa’s rarely-performed suite “Three Quotations”, the tone poem “Finlandia” by Jean Sibelius, and a symphonic suite from the movie “Mary Poppins”, as well as familiar and rarely-performed marches of Sousa and Edwin Franko Goldman. The program will also include musical tributes to Leroy Anderson on the 100th anniversary of his birth and, honoring the late tenor Luciano Pavarotti, a selection from Puccini’s opera “Turandot”.

We are honored again to have as our guest conductor Col. William Baldwin, a retired Conductor of the United States Army Band. Col. Baldwin first became interested in music at the age of nine when he heard Sousa and his band in concert, shortly before Sousa’s death. He entered the Juilliard School of Music in New York in 1937, majoring in clarinet and conducting. He was a conducting student of the famous French maestro Pierre Monteux, a conductor for numerous ensembles including the Metropolitan Opera and the San Francisco and Boston Symphony Orchestras. While at Juilliard Col. Baldwin was also a clarinetist in the successor to Sousa’s Band, the world famous Goldman Band, with its daily summertime concerts in Central Park and Brooklyn.

Col. Baldwin was appointed Music Director of the Manhattan Light Opera Company in New York in 1940. He was drafted in to the United States Army in 1941 and for the next quarter century conducted Army bands all over the world, among them the First Division Band, the 82nd Airborne Division Band, and the United Nations Band in Seoul, South Korea. From 1959 to 1964 he was a conductor of the main United States Army Band in Washington, DC. In 1956 at the invitation of President Eisenhower, he conducted a special federal concert of that band at Constitution Hall, a 200-year summary of American band music. After retiring from the Army, Col. Baldwin was for many years Chair of the Music Department at Atlanta’s Westminster Schools. The Callanwolde Concert Band is again honored to have Col. Baldwin as its guest conductor for this concert.

The Band, a community organization for over thirty years, is DeKalb County’s premiere symphonic wind ensemble. The concert will be Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 3:00PM at the Oak Grove United Methodist Church, 1712 Oak Grove Road, Decatur, GA. Admission is $10. For students, seniors, and Atlanta Artscard and Atlanta Planit members, admission is $5. For directions see the Church web site at http://www.ogumc.org Tickets will be sold only at the door – no advance sales.

Further information about the Band is available at its web site http://www.calcb.org