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Packard Band prepares patriotic program

WARREN — Guest conductor Jeffrey D. Gershman and trumpet player Lance D. Witty will join the W.D. Packard Concert Band for its next performance.

Gershman is director of bands and a professor of music at the College of Wooster. He previously served as director of wind ensembles and a professor of music at Capital University Conservatory of Music, associate director of bands at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and director of instrumental activities at Texas A&M University-Commerce.

He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Indiana University and his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin.

Gershman first conducted the Packard band last summer.

Witty oversees the trumpet program at Capital University. He is a Yamaha Performing Artist and has performed extensively as a soloist, orchestral, chamber and commercial musician.

He will be the featured soloist on “Napoli” by Herman Bellstedt and will be joined by Terry Gale and Frank Cosenza on Leroy Anderson’s “Bugler’s Holiday.”

Other selections on the program include Leroy Anderson’s “The Irish Washerwoman,” John Reese Europe’s “Castles in Europe” ragtime march, Aaron Copland’s “Down a Country Lane,” Ronald Lo Presti’s “Elegy for a Young American,” Helen May Butler’s “Cosmopolitan America,” Clare Grundman’s “Concord,” Michael Berry’s “Like Our Fathers Before Us,” Edward Elgar’s “Nimrod” from “Enigma Variations” and a medley of patriotic songs by George M. Cohan.

The concert starts at 7 p.m. Sunday at the south lawn bandshell of Packard Music Hall, 1703 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren. Admission is free, and funding is provided by the W.D. Packard trust.

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