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KING BAND SALUTES THE
APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING:
On Sunday
evening, July 20th, the weekly concert by the Karl L. King Municipal Band
will feature a salute to the Apollo 11 moon landing on the same July 20th
date in 1969. Conductor Dan Cassady and announcer Paul Bloomquist
will lead the band in an hour-long sampling of music that is “out of this
world!” Concert time is 7:30 pm at the Karl L.
King Band Shell in Oleson Park.
Ice
cream and other goodies will be available from the Southeast Valley Music
Boosters for a free-will donation before the concert starts.
These summer concerts are provided, free of charge, by the City of Fort
Dodge for everyone’s listening pleasure. Persons are reminded
to bring their own lawn chairs, since no seating is provided.
March
music is always on the program, and this week will include Semper Fidelis
by John Philip Sousa, March Francaise: Father of Victory by Louis
Ganne, and E. E. Bagley’s well-known composition, National Emblem.
The evening’s overture will be
Karl King’s The Altar of Genius, published in 1916 during King’s
third and final season as Conductor of the famous Sells-Floto Circus/Buffalo
Bill Wild West Show Band. In addition, the band will feature
one of Karl King’s beautiful serenades, A Moonlight Melody, one
of King’s earliest aerial waltzes with Moonlight on the Nile, and
King’s exciting circus galop, Emporia.
Guest soloist for the evening
is Nikole Nuttall on clarinet. Nikole is a native of Omaha
Nebraska, and a graduate of the University of South Dakota in Vermillion
with a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education and Music Performance with
an emphasis on clarinet. She just completed her 14th year as
the middle school band director at the Alta-Aurelia Schools.
Nikole is principal clarinet with the Fort Dodge Area Symphony as well
as the Karl King Band. Ms. Nuttall will perform the classic
clarinet solo, Immer Kleiner (Always Smaller), a humorous fantasy
by Adolf Schreiner. She will then join the rest of the Clarinet
section to perform the popular Clarinet Polka.
On the lighter side will be a
medley of Frank Sinatra’s many hit songs, simply titled Sinatra!
This medley will provide just four of his many popular tunes: Come
Fly With Me from 1958, Witchcraft from 1957, That’s
Life from 1966, and finally Fly Me to the Moon from
Sinatra’s 1964 recording. This last song was played on the
Apollo 10 mission as it orbited the Moon and again, on Apollo 11 astronaut
Buzz Aldrin’s cassette tape player (remember those!) after he stepped onto
the Moon.
In
the event of inclement weather, the concert may be cancelled at the starting
time. Any announcements will be made on the band’s Facebook
page. Plan to be in attendance each Sunday evening to hear
the finest in band music as played by your local municipal band in beautiful
Oleson Park, located in the southern part of the city of Fort Dodge.
View some photos from the 2025
Scholarship
Concert.
View photos from the last concert
of conductor Jerrold Jimmerson
View the programs from the 2023
Concert Season
The Karl L. King Municipal Band of Fort Dodge is
seen during a practice session
before taking the stage.
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