Media Advisory:
Friday, Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m.
It’s sold out: U.S. Marine Band’s
first duty in SoCal at Cal State L.A.
(Limited
media passes available)
‘The President’s Own’ at Luckman Theatre to play
Handel, DeLuca, ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ and, of course, 3 by Sousa
Who: “The
President’s Own” United States Marine Band will perform at the Luckman
Theatre on the Cal State L.A. campus, as part of its 2009 national
concert tour.
When:
Friday, Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m.
Where:
Luckman Theatre, on the Cal State L.A. campus. The University is near
the junction of the 10 and 710 freeways. (Map and directions:
www.calstatela.edu/univ/maps/cslamap.php
.)
Info:
For information, call the Luckman Box Office at (323) 343-6600.
Note to editors and news directors:
Journalists
are welcome to review
“The
President’s Own” United States Marine Band’s
first stop in Southern California. The free public concert, with all
tickets already distributed, will be held Friday, Oct. 23, at
7:30 p.m., in the Luckman Theatre at California State
University, Los Angeles. The band will also perform Oct. 24 in Pasadena,
Oct. 25 in Oxnard, Oct. 26 at UCLA, Oct. 28 in San Diego and Oct. 29 in
Imperial. For a complete tour schedule and other details, visit
www.marineband.usmc.mil.
To request a media pass to the Oct. 23 concert at Cal State L.A. or to
arrange interviews prior to the event with tour coordinator, Master
Sergeant John Mula, and other U.S. Marine Band members from Southern
California, contact the CSULA Public Affairs in advance at (323)
343-3050 or by email (see above). Media seats are limited.
To request filming or photography of the concert, contact the
Marine Band Public Affairs in advance at (202) 433-5809 or
marineband.publicaffairs@usmc.mil.
(Photography access will be limited to the rear of the theatre and there
will be no flash photography during the concert, in order to prevent
disruption to the audience or the musicians on stage.)
The Marine Band is
America’s oldest continuously active professional musical organization.
Founded in 1798, the band has performed for every U.S. president except
George Washington. Known as “The President’s Own” since the days of
Thomas Jefferson, the Marine Band’s primary mission is to provide music
for the President of the United States and the Commandant of the Marine
Corps.
The band’s legendary
17th director, John Philip Sousa, initiated the concert tour tradition
in 1891. The band, now directed by Colonel Michael J. Colburn,
will offer traditional band repertoire, solos, opera and marches. For
the Cal State L.A. concert, the selections will include a suite from
Sergei Prokofief’s Romeo and Juliet, Joseph De Luca’s “Beautiful
Colorado” (with a euphonium solo), a baritone rendering of George
Frideric Handel’s “Arm, Arm, Ye Brave” from Judas Maccabeaus, and
three Sousa compositions—including the national march of the United
States, “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” There will also be a salute to
the U.S. Armed Forces.
Several of the band’s
roughly 60 members hail from California, including oboe/English-horn
player Tessa Gross of Santa Monica, cornet/trumpet player Jeffrey Strong
of Fresno, euphonium players Matthew Summers of Palo Alto and Ryan
McGeorge of San Diego, stage manager Richard Dickerson of Woodland
Hills, and stage crewman Louis Hill of Los Angeles. (Clarinetist John
Mula of Illinois is a graduate of San Diego State University.) For a
list of band members, go to
www.marineband.usmc.mil/who_we_are/members/index.htm.
All general seating
tickets for the “The President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band Concert have been
distributed to the public. Ticket holders will arrive early on Friday,
Oct. 23, in order to be seated by 7:15 p.m. Music fans without tickets
will be admitted at 7:20 p.m. to fill any unclaimed seats. Call the
Luckman Box Office at (323) 343-6600.
The concert is
cosponsored by Cal State L.A. and its Department of Music.
For
directions to the CSULA campus, go to
www.calstatela.edu/univ/maps/cslamap.php.
Concert parking will be free at upper level of Parking Structure C. For
the Luckman Fine Arts Complex web site, go to
www.luckmanarts.org.
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