RCCB Announces New Season

By Bob Karlovits

Continued premieres of new compositions, a performance by a tap dancer and an audience-designed program will highlight the upcoming River City Brass Band season.

The 2008-09 series will begin in September, featuring a program dedicated to dance with the appearance of Shelley Oliver, a tap dancer from Easton, Northampton County, who has toured Europe, China and the United States.

The series of seven concerts also will feature the continuation of works commissioned to celebrate this year’s 250th birthday of the city of Pittsburgh. Each concert in 2008, beginning Thursday, will feature such a composition.

The other highlight of the schedule will be the final program, for which audience members will suggest pieces at concerts throughout the year.

The schedule:

Shall We Dance — Sept. 4 through 14, with tap dancer Oliver; new composition undecided.

Anthem for America — Oct. 2 through 12, a program of patriotic music with a new work by David Stock

Birth of a Great City — Nov. 1 through 13, a look at music from Pittsburgh composers with a new piece by the band’s Drew Fennell

And the Angels Sing — Dec. 4 through 14, a Christmas concert with a new composition by Nancy Galbraith

Brazen Overtures — March 1 through 13, 2009, rousing music from the opera

Strike Up the Band — March 26 through April 5, the ever-popular big-band concert

By Popular Demand — April 30 through May 10, the concert designed by listeners

Details: 412-434-7222.

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