Trumpet Soloists to be Featured With Municipal Band Trumpet soloists Dennis Jones and Braden Lueking will be featured performers at the Wednesday, July 10 concert by the Taylorville Municipal Band. The concert will be held at the Christian County Historical Society and will begin at 7:00 PM.

Dennis Jones, retired band director for the Rochester School District and longtime Taylorville Municipal Band member, will perform a 2015 composition by James Curnow, Nexus. Braden Lueking, a 2024 Rochester High School graduate, will perform Cinema Paradiso by Ennio and Andrea Morricone. Another featured composition on this concert will be a new piece composed for the The President’s Own Marine Band by staff arranger and Taylorville native, Scott Ninmer called PACE Fanfare.

Audience members can also plan on hearing Thundercrest March by Eric Osterling; Second Suite in F by Gustav Holst; George Washington March by Edwin Franko Goldman; Declaration Overture by Claude T. Smith; His Honor March by Henry Fillmore; Syncopated Clock by Leroy Anderson; Choose Joy by Randall Standridge; and America The Beautiful by Samuel Augustus Ward, arranged by Carmen Dragon. 

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