Community Band Begins Seventy-sixth Year of Music

The Rockport Legion Band, an established community concert band founded in 1932, will begin its seventy-sixth year of music-making by holding a series of reading rehearsals at the Legion Hall on Beach Street, Rockport.* These rehearsals will begin on Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 7:30, and continue every Thursday evening until April 30.

Material will consist of music from the band's library, new music under consideration for programming, and a series of pieces from the turn of the Twentieth Century. The latter group includes rags, marches, galops, and popular songs from the period.

Any player of a concert band instrument is welcome to join these rehearsals. Rehearsal participants are invited to continue playing with the band without audition. Details about the band can be found on the band's web page at:

http://rockportlegionband.wordpress.com

Please address any questions to: [email protected]

* For those readers who are detail obsessive, the band's first public performances were in 1933. Do the math.