Nashoba Symphonic Band Presents “Of Thee I Sing”

The Nashoba Symphonic Band, under the direction of David Wayne Bailey, will present its first concert
of the 2024-25 season, “Of Thee I Sing,” a program of American music on Sunday, November 3 at 3
p.m. in the auditorium of Nashoba Regional High School, Route 117 in Bolton MA. Admission is free.

The concert includes several classics of American band literature, including American Overture for
Band by Joseph Willcox Jenkins and Copland’s iconic Lincoln Portrait, narrated by Lancaster
selectman, Jason Allison. The major work on the program is Morton Gould’s Symphony for Band “West
Point.” The first movement of this work, Epitaphs, pays homage to American heroes; the second,
Marches, is a free-for-all of military march styles. For march fans, the program includes Grafulla’s
Washington Grays and, of course, The Official West Point March, a medley of the academy’s marches,
hymns, glee club tunes and its alma mater.

Now in its ninth full season, the 90-piece concert band is comprised of musicians from 31 area
communities, ranging in age from 14 to 80-something. Nashoba Symphonic Band is a program of the
Nashoba Regional High School Friends of Music and is supported in part by funds from Ashby, Berlin,
Bolton, Harvard, Lancaster, Littleton, Lunenberg, and Stow Cultural Councils, local agencies supported
by Mass Cultural Council, a state agency. All Nashoba Symphonic Band concerts are free and open to
the public.