The creators of the Dance-Along Nutcracker® present

BANDANCING

A Celebration of Music In Motion

San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band

8 pm, Friday, March 13                 

Conducted by Cal Band Director Robert Calonico

Ebenezer Lutheran Church

678 Portola Drive, San Francisco.

http://www.sflgfb.org

Wheelchair accessible. Admission Free.
 
 
Fresh from marching in the Obama Inaugural Parade and an NPR feature on its Dance-Along Nutcracker®, the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band presents BANDANCING: A Celebration of Music in Motion.

Guest conducted by Cal Band Director Robert Calonico, BANDANCING showcases a broad range of dance-inspired music by some of the world’s great composers. Dance styles featured include cake walk, jazz waltz, tango, schottische, Peruvian folk dance, circus march, Renaissance galliard and modern. 

This toe-tapping concert includes:

• Dance of the Jesters by Petr Tchaikovsky
• Pas Redoublé  (“Double Quick-Step”) by Camille Saint-Saëns
• Suite of Old American Dances by Robert Russell Baker
• Folk Dances by Dmitri Shostakovich
• Moving Parts by David Sampson
• Seis Mañuel (Dances in the Puerto Rican Style) by Shelley Hanson
• Volver a la Montaña  (based on the folk music of Peru and Equador) by Shelley Hanson
• Bandancing by Jack Stamp
  
  

Post-concert reception hosted by A Women’s Eye Gallery.

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The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band is proud to present Guest Conductor Robert Calonico. Mr. Calonico was named the Director of Bands at the University of California, Berkeley in 1994, where his responsibilities include directing and arranging for the Cal Marching Band, and conducting the University Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band. Mr. Calonico programmed the Cal Band’s most recent recording, “University of California Band,” released in May of 2003. The University Wind Ensemble was invited to perform under his direction at the California Music Educator’s State Conference in March of 2000 and has shared the stage with collegiate wind ensembles from CSU Fresno, UC Davis, Los Medanos College, Stanford University, University of the Pacific and the University of Tokyo.

A Bay Area native, Mr. Calonico is a graduate of St Mary’s College High School in Berkeley and holds a B.A. in music from UC Berkeley. He earned his teaching credential and an M.A. in clarinet performance from California State University, Hayward. Prior to his appointment at U.C. Berkeley, Mr. Calonico held faculty positions at Dominican College and Terra Linda High School in San Rafael, CA.

An active musician as well as an accomplished conductor, Calonico has 35 years' professional performance experience and has performed with the Oakland East Bay Symphony, Oakland Ballet, California Symphony, Berkeley Symphony, Berkeley Repertory Theater, many San Francisco-based Broadway show productions including "Phantom of the Opera" and "West Side Story," Natalie Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Maria Muldaur, James Brown, Tex Beneke and Harry James Orchestras. Mr. Calonico currently serves as Bay Section President for the California Music Educators Association. In 2007, Calonico was named the new Associate Conductor of the Danville Community Band, an 85-piece band performing in the East Bay since 2001.

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