DuPage Community Concert Band Presents ‘Musical Impressions’ March 13

The DuPage Community Concert Band will present “Musical Impressions,” its first concert of the semester, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 13, in Belushi Performance Hall at the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, 425 Fawell Blvd.

The program is inspired by Impressionist art, wherein the creator does not explicitly reveal the subject of their inspiration, but expresses it through the moods and emotions evoked by the musical performance.

Opening the concert will be the processional from Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Mlada,” an experimental piece inspired from several highly contrasting Russian folk tales that manifests itself as partially a ballet and partially an opera. Though it wasn’t widely canonized in the theatrical repertory, this excerpt remains as its enduring musical legacy.

Following the processional will be “Washington Post-Mortem” by Jerry Bilik, which puts the beloved Sousa march tune through a series of thematic musical transformations: a waltz, a love song and a vaudeville two-step. The band will also present the music of brilliant aspiring young Black composer Kevin Day, “Shimmering Sunshine,” a work that highlights both the positive and negative attributes of sunlight. The program will conclude with the well-known “Chorale and Shaker Dance” by John Zdechlik.

Concert tickets are $7. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit atthemac.org