He assigned tyros to instruments that seemed to echo their personalities (trumpets for the extroverts, bass to the intellectuals who “don’t mind standing back there by themselves playing ...

(Fred Hess Big Band, 7 and 9 p.m., Thursday and Friday, Dazzle Restaurant and Lounge, 930 Lincoln. Tickets are $12 or $25 along with a copy of the CD. Call 303-839-5100.

In true concert band tradition, the Hendersonville Community Band will perform favorite marches -- "The Chimes of Liberty" by Goldman, arranged by Schissel, and "The Gallant Seventh" by Sousa, edited ...

Poneta joined the Edwardsville Municipal Band in 1910, playing the trumpet and other instruments until his retirement in 1965. More than a decade later, in 1976, the band honored him with a ...

It all started last summer when Conductor Eugene Goossens of the Cincinnati Symphony gazed into the blue vacation waters off the Maine coast. What could he do in the war effort? What music would ...