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Where: Cactus High School auditorium, 6330 W. Greenway Road, Glendale
More Information: azwinds.com
6330 W. Greenway Road Glendale, AZ
Cactus High School auditorium
6330 W. Greenway Road Glendale, AZ
The Glendale-based Arizona Winds Concert Band will perform 3 p.m. Sunday, April 5 at the Cactus High School auditorium, 6330 W. Greenway Road.
The band will follow up its February “Disney Movie Magic” production with another audio/visual event featuring musical themes and video clips from many old blockbuster movies at the free April 5 concert entitled “Movie Magic 2: Oldies But Goodies.”
Colonel Rich Shelton, the band’s musical director and conductor, has selected 11 nostalgic blockbusters to feature.
“Finding the right movie clips to fit the musical arrangements and then editing them into a precisely-timed production takes a great deal of work and patience,” Colonel Shelton stated in a news release. “Combining the audio and visual components is challenging, but the end result is really quite stunning and rewarding. Other than the Phoenix Symphony, I don’t know of any other musical organization in Phoenix that has been as forward thinking as The Arizona Winds in combining these elements into multiple, unique concert-going experiences.”
Selections will include the 1960 western “The Magnificent Seven” starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and James Coburn; the Academy Award-winning 1958 romantic musical “South Pacific” based on Rogers & Hammerstein’s musical by the same name; the 1942 Academy Award winner for Best Picture “Casablanca,” starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman; and the 1962 seven-time Academy Award-winning “Lawrence of Arabia” starring Peter O’Toole and Anthony Quinn.
“Those of us who grew up in the 50s and 60s will remember watching a cartoon before the feature film at the theater. We’re going to open our concert the same way … with a cartoon,” Mr. Shelton stated. “Well, actually a series of cartoon clips set to a unique composition called ‘Cartoon’ depicting the various musical anecdotes and shenanigans composers use in writing for those cartoons.”
The Arizona Winds’ season concludes May 31 with “America, the Dream Goes On,” a musical tribute to men and women in uniform.
Concerts are 3 p.m. Sundays and admission is free.
