Spring Concert 2025

  • March 23, 2025 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  • Lancaster Bible College - Good Shepherd Chapel

    901 Eden Road
    Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17601
Ticket Price $25.00 Buy Tickets
Description

The New Holland Band Spring Concert 2025

 

The New Holland Band will present their annual spring concert on Sunday, March 23 in the Good Shepherd Chapel at Lancaster Bible College. The annual concert, usually held in March, began in the late 1950s and marks the beginning of the ensemble’s performance season

 

Music Director Fred Hughes has chosen a program that includes Ludwig van Beethoven’s overture to the Johann Wolfgang van Goethe play Egmont, Aaron Copeland’s Variations on a Shaker Melody, and Leonard Bernstein’s overture to the operetta Candide. Marches include Karl King’s “The Melody Shop” and “The Purple Pageant”, and Kenneth Alford’s “On the Quarter Deck”.  With renewed interest in L. Frank Baum’s novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the program will include music from both the movie The Wizard of Oz and the Broadway musical Wicked. 

 

Featured soloists for the New Holland Band’s Spring Concert 2025 include principal flutist Georgia Dimaano and principal tubist George DeMers. Dimaano, who grew up in Lititz, studied flute with Ray Kauffman, Edie Overly, and Joel Behrens. She has been with the New Holland Band since 1989 and is the founder of the Pennsylvania Flute Choir. She will perform “Traume im Herbst” by Harald Kolasch. DeMers is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University where he performed regularly in various ensembles including the Blue Band, and has studied with Gerald Mickey, Mark Lusk, Eric Henry, and Grant Moore.  He will perform “Yorkshire Ballad” by James Barnes.

 

The New Holland Band’s Spring Concert 2025 begins at 3 p.m. in Good Shepherd Chapel located on the campus of Lancaster Bible College at 901 Eden Road in Lancaster. Tickets are $25, with free admission for children and students, and can be purchased at www.newhollandband.org or by calling (717) 355- 5096.

Date & Time

Sun, Mar 23, 2025 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Venue Details

Lancaster Bible College - Good Shepherd Chapel

901 Eden Road
Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17601 Lancaster Bible College - Good Shepherd Chapel
The New Holland Band

Located in New Holland, Pennsylvania surrounded by the rich farmland of eastern Lancaster County, the New Holland Band traces its history to 1829 when a group of musicians from town playing fifes and drums formed a band to provide music for the 51st Regiment of the Pennsylvania State Militia. The nation’s 2nd oldest community band served in the American Civil War as the regimental band for the 203rd Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers and throughout its storied history appears in print archives under names including the New Holland Village Band, the Patriotic Order Sons of America Band, the Citizens Band of New Holland, and the Victory Band of New Holland.

 

With a legacy of mentoring young musicians begun by music director Samuel O. Zimmerman and continued through the leadership of Marlin Houck and Dr. Kenneth Laudermilch, members of the New Holland Band have filled the ranks of our nation’s top military bands as well as holding positions in symphony and opera orchestras. 

 

Newly appointed director Fred Hughes joined the New Holland Band while a junior-high school student, playing tuba alongside his father and performing solos with the band. He is a product of the band’s dedication to mentoring young musicians and is now enjoying a professional career with extensive experience in the band, orchestra, and jazz world. He will continue the legacy of the band begun in 1829 and is committed to serving New Holland and the region for years to come.


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