Pomona, CA — The Pomona Concert Band proudly presents their annual Winter Concert titled “The Great USA” on Friday, February 28th, 2025 at 7:30 pm. The concert will be held in the Palomares Park Community Center, 499 E. Arrow Hwy in Pomona and is sponsored by the City of Pomona. The concert will be directed by Artistic Director and Conductor Linda W. Taylor and Assistant Conductor Kerry Kline. The Master of Ceremonies for the evening will be columnist and author David Allen, and the color guard will be Heriberto Feliciano, USAF, Retired and Thomas Laffey. Refreshments will be served at intermission. The concert is FREE to the public.
The concert features music written for different regions of our country and several of our great cities. The music of America that the band will play include: “Midwest March” by J.J. Richards, “An American Elegy” by Frank Ticheli who is Professor Emeritus of Composition at the University of Southern California, “Folk Suite for Concert Band” by William Grant Still, and “Savannah River Rhapsody” by one of the most performed composers of concert band music today, Robert Sheldon. The featured soloist of the evening will be Bassoonist Carly Miller performing Mozart’s “Concerto in B Flat Major” arranged by Charles T. Yeago. Music about American cities will include “Charleston Harbor Celebration” again by Robert Sheldon, “Sedona” by Steven Reineke, who is the music director of the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, and a march by John Philip Sousa titled “Atlantic City Pageant.” The band will close the concert by showing the pride we all feel at living in the greatest place in the world, with Carmen Dragon’s wonderful arrangement of Samuel Ward’s “America the Beautiful.”
Celebrate the music of America with a concert by one of the premier community Wind Bands in Southern California. The best part is that the concert is FREE. So bring your entire family and invite your friends to Palomares Park on February 28th at 7:30 pm.
The Pomona Concert Band is under the baton of Linda W. Taylor, Conductor and Musical Director, and Assistant Director Kerry Kline. Band members come from Pomona and more than twenty surrounding communities to make music together. The Pomona Concert Band was founded by G. Stanton Selby in 1947 as part of a local Pomona American Legion Post. The Band has represented the City of Pomona in countless events and performances over the years, including tours of Europe and Japan in 1985 and 1988. The band represented the city in April 2015 with a stellar performance at the Association of Concert Bands Convention in Sacramento, California.
