Please join the Jackson Hole Community Band for a “Musicians’ Choice” Holiday Concert. Jennifer Levanduski conducts this festive concert including our members’ favorites by Leroy Anderson, Henry Mancini, Mel Tormé, Sergei Prokofiev, and more. This concert is family friendly and admission is Free. Please bring a nonperishable food item for donation to the local food cupboard.
Saxophobia offers students and audiences a rare glimpse at some of the most unusual saxophones ever made and pays tribute to a handful of great jazz legends who contributed to the development of jazz and the popularity of the sax. Saxophobia explores a repertoire of over 50 years of jazz styles including music of Rudy Weideoft, Frankie Trumbauer, Adrian Rollini, Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, Paul Desmond, John Coltrane and others. The show utilizes approximately 10 different saxophones including a tiny curved sopranino sax, straight tenor, C melody, connosax, slide sax, Grafton plastic alto, bass, and 6 1/2 ft tall contrabass.
Rob Verdi, a professional saxophonist and musical instrument collector from the Los Angeles area, currently I performs at the Disneyland Resort and also presents formal concerts and school outreach programs with a couple musical ensembles called Saxophobia and The Side Street Strutters Jazz Band. For the past two years he has actively participated in the WY state arts conference which included a showcase performance resulting in invitations for Rob to share his saxophones at school programs and formal concerts in Cody, Thermopolis, Lander, Kemmerer, Big Pine, and Evanston. This year’s conference will be hosted in Jackson October 12-14 and Rob was selected to once again perform a 12 minute showcase for arts presenters from throughout the state.
The Jackson Hole Community Band is excited to participate in Rob’s SAXsational Showcase this weekend performing Gabriel’s Oboe and a medley of songs including Tequila, Pink Panther and Yakety Sax.
During Rob’s visit to Jackson He the JHCB is sponsoring today’s special presentation of SAXsational to the 6th grade music students at Jackson Hole Middle School with Robin Closson.
Join the Jackson Hole Community Band as we perform with the majestic Tetons as a backdrop. We will be playing movie and patriotic favorites by John Philip Sousa, John Williams and more.
Look at all the stars. You look up and you think, “God made all this and He remembered to make a little speck like me.” It’s kind of flattering, really. ~ Morgan Earp, Tombstone
A sneak peak at just a few pieces we have planned for you…
Music From Tombstone, Bruce Broughton – arr. Ted Ricketts
Esprit De Corps, Robert Jager
Fugue on Yankee Doodle, John Philip Sousa
The March from 1941, John Williams
America the Beautiful, SA Ward arr. Carmen Dragon
The Cowboys Overture, The John Williams
Semper Fidelis, John Philip Sousa
Stars and Stripes Forever, John Philip Sousa
Jackson Lake Lodge
US Highway 89 N Moran, Wyoming
– half mile north of Jackson Lake Junction, Grand Teton National Park Wyoming, US
Moran, WY 83013
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