Gainesville Community Band performs April 2

Celebrate the arrival of spring and enjoy

Two Great Wind Ensembles on the Same Spring Concert

Thursday, April 2, 7 pm at Gainesville High School Auditorium

It is free and you are invited.

Featuring:

The Gainesville Community Band, the premier adult concert band of North Central Florida, was founded in 1974. Four years later, the
Gainesville City Commission passed a resolution designating the GCB as the Official Community Band of Gainesville. Eighty-some
members from all walks of life currently play in the band, and its concerts have always been family-friendly with free admission.
Dr. Gerald Poe is music director.

and

Gainesville High School, the city's first secondary school, was founded in 1900 and has a history of producing some of the state's
finest performing groups, and the Symphonic Band is the finest of the finest, the school's top wind ensemble. Mr. Bill Pirzer is
Gainesville High School's director of bands.

The Spring Concert program:

The Gainesville Community Band will play:
- Tree City Fanfare, by Richard W. Bowles. Professor Bowles dedicated this composition to the city of Gainesville
- Washington Grays March, by Claudio S. Grafulla
- Chester Overture for Band, by William Schuman
- American River Songs: A Folksong Setting for Band, by Pierre La Plante

The Gainesville High School Symphonic Band will play
- Florentiner March, by Julius Fucik
- Wind Sprints, by Richard Saucedo
- Irish Tune from County Derry, by Percy Grainger
- Incantation and Dance, by John Barnes Chance

Gainesville High School is located at 1900 Northwest 13th Street, with plenty of free parking adjacent to the auditorium.