“I think this is a wonderful opportunity to help people in need,” says Ronald Demkee, Allentown Band Conductor.

“This is a joint concert with the New York Staff Band of the Salvation Army.

“Net proceeds from this concert benefit the Salvation Army’s efforts on behalf of the victims of last year’s wildfires in Southern California and this summer’s floods in Texas,” Demkee says.

The Allentown Band presents “Benefit Concert: Sounds of Hollywood,” 7:30 p.m. Sept. 5, Miller Symphony Hall, Allentown.

The concert opens with Warren Barker’s medley, “That’s Entertainment” setting the tone with “Another Op’nin, Another Sho,” “Be a Clown” and “That’s Entertainment.”

Guest soloist mezzo-soprano Patricia Risley joins the band in the Ken Moyer arrangement of “Singularly Streisand,” including such popular hits as “People,” “Memories” and “Don’t Rain on My Parade.”

The program continues with John Williams’ “Hymn to the Fallen” from “Saving Private Ryan” and Leonard Bernstein’s “Make Our Garden Grow” from the operetta “Candide.”

After intermission, the Salvation Army New York Staff Band, directed by Bandmaster Derek Lance, performs several selections and then is joined by the Allentown Band.

The concert concludes with the combined bands’ performing composer Peter Graham’s “Shine as the Light,” William Himes arrangement of “Amazing Grace” and the Allentown Band’s traditional closing piece, John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever.”

Says Lance, “The New York Staff Band is greatly looking forward to sharing the stage with the Allentown Band and enjoying a wonderful evening of music. The Allentown Band is world-renowned and it will be an absolute pleasure to make music together.”

The New York Staff Band of The Salvation Army, founded in 1887 and one of the United States’ oldest continuous musical ensembles, is heralded as “America’s Foremost Brass Band.”

“Benefit Concert: Sounds of Hollywood,” Allentown Band, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 5. Tickets: Miller Symphony Hall box office, 23 N. Sixth St., Allentown; 610-432-6715; https://www.millersymphonyhall.org

The Allentown Band presents its “Annual Bert Meyers Concert,” 3 p.m. Sept. 7, West Park, Allentown.

“Albertus ‘Bert’ Meyers was a cornet soloist with the world-famous Sousa Band who returned to Allentown and served as conductor of the Allentown Band for 50 years,” says Demkee.

“One of 20 Allentown Band members who Sousa recruited to play with his band over the years, Bert along with his Allentown cohorts, brought back many of Sousa’s performance techniques which are not written in the music, but which have been maintained in the Allentown Band to this day,” Demkee says.

Concert selections include “Poet and Peasant Overture” by Franz von Suppe, “Selections from Sound of Music” by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, “Three Dances” from Bedrich Smetana’s “The Bartered Bride” and Jacques Offenbach’s “Finale” from “Orpheus in the Underworld.”

Featured soloist is Allentown Band trumpeter Dave Sendef in R. Mark Rogers arrangement of “Concert Etude” by Russian composer Alexander Goedicke.

Marches are interspersed throughout the concert, including Bert Meyers’ “Game Preserve March,” G.R. Reherer’s “Hampden Firemen” and Sousa’s “Rifle Regiment,” “Black Horse Troop” and “Semper Fidelis.”

“Annual Bert Meyer’s Concert,” Allentown Band, 3 p.m. Sept. 7, West Park, 16th and Linden Streets, Allentown; Tickets not required; information: https://allentownband.com

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