After a three-month delay, Galen S. Karriker will make his debut on Sunday as conductor of the W.D. Packard Concert Band.

Karriker, director of bands at the University of Akron, has guest-conducted the band several times, but his debut as Stephen L. Gage’s successor in January was canceled due to inclement weather, and schedule conflicts in place before he was hired prevented him from conducting the February and March performances.

Sunday’s concert primarily will feature the program planned in January.

In an interview in January, Karriker said, “There are some newer things on it, but a lot of it is old, traditional, what folks might call old warhorse band repertoire that are also anniversaries.”

The program will include John Philip Sousa’s “Black Horse Troop” march, which was written in 1924 in honor of a Cleveland National Guard Unit; a George Gershwin medley that includes a portion of his “Rhapsody in Blue,” which also debuted in 1924; and Robert Vaughan Williams’ Folk Song Suite, which made its concert band debut in 1924 and its orchestral debut the following year. Other selections include: Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Forza Del Destino” overture; Steve Rouse’s arrangement of the spiritual “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”; Julie Giroux’s Medalist Fanfare; Percy Aldridge Grainger’s “Australian Up-Country Tune” (arranged by Glenn Cliffe Bainum); D Delle Cese’s “L’Inglesina” symphonic march; the pop standard “Hey, Look Me Over” (arranged by John Cacavas); and Jose Padilla’s “El Relicario” paso doble.

Sunday’s concert also will feature Aiden Hite, alto saxophone, performing Darius Milhaud’s “Scaramouche” as the winner of the Robert E. Fleming Concerto Competition. Hite is a senior at Howland High School and a member of the Youngstown State Youth Orchestra and District 5 Honors Band. He plans to major in music education at Youngstown State University. The competition is named for the band’s long-time conductor, who died in 2011, and it was established to present outstanding high school musicians as soloists with the Packard band.