The New Holland Band Spring Concert 2025

The New Holland Band Spring Concert 2025

The New Holland Band will present their annual spring concert on Sunday, March 23 in the Good Shepherd Chapel at Lancaster Bible College. The annual concert, usually held in March, began in the late 1950s and marks the beginning of the ensemble’s performance season

Music Director Fred Hughes has chosen a program that includes Ludwig van Beethoven’s overture to the Johann Wolfgang van Goethe play Egmont, Aaron Copeland’s Variations on a Shaker Melody, and Leonard Bernstein’s overture to the operetta Candide. Marches include Karl King’s “The Melody Shop” and “The Purple Pageant”, and Kenneth Alford’s “On the Quarter Deck”. With renewed interest in L. Frank Baum’s novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the program will include music from both the movie The Wizard of Oz and the Broadway musical Wicked.

Featured soloists for the New Holland Band’s Spring Concert 2025 include principal flutist Georgia Dimaano and principal tubist George DeMers. Dimaano, who grew up in Lititz, studied flute with Ray Kauffman, Edie Overly, and Joel Behrens. She has been with the New Holland Band since 1989 and is the founder of the Pennsylvania Flute Choir. She will perform “Traume im Herbst” by Harald Kolasch. DeMers is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University where he performed regularly in various ensembles including the Blue Band, and has studied with Gerald Mickey, Mark Lusk, Eric Henry, and Grant Moore. He will perform “Yorkshire Ballad” by James Barnes.

The New Holland Band’s Spring Concert 2025 begins at 3 p.m. in Good Shepherd Chapel located on the campus of Lancaster Bible College at 901 Eden Road in Lancaster. Tickets can be purchased through the phone or through the website provided and https://www.simpletix.com/e/spring-concert-2025-tickets-199452.

Contact: Fred Hughes

Email: info@newhollandband.org

Phone: (717) 355-5096