Joseph Pellegrini is planning a Broadway-filled finale to his tenure as music director of the Youngstown Area Community Concert Band.

The band started its 42nd season last month, and Pellegrini has been conductor and music director for 35 of them.

“I was going to be 75 at the end of the year,” Pellegrini said. “I’ve been doing this band for 35 years, and I just felt like it was the right time, before I started making mistakes and putting the band in jeopardy because of my age.”

The all-volunteer band has about 60 musicians ranging in age from teenagers to members in their 80s. Two have been there since the very beginning — Doug Lewis of Canfield and Ed D’Angelo of New Middletown.

Pellegrini picked “Broadway Classics” as the theme for his swan song.

“I love Broadway stuff, so I thought that would be a nice final summer season to do Broadway classics,” he said. “And there are a couple that I particularly like conducting, and I thought it would be great to do those pieces one more time.”

One of Pellegrini’s favorites in the program is a medley of songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber that include selections from “Jesus Christ Superstar,” “Evita,” and “The Phantom of the Opera.”

Also represented in the program will be music from “West Side Story,” “Jersey Boys,” “Annie,” “Camelot,” “My Fair Lady,” “The Sound Of Music,” “Porgy And Bess,” “The Music Man,” “Oklahoma,” “Les Miserables,” “Man Of La Mancha” and “the Lion King.”

For concerts around the Fourth of July, the band also will play a medley of patriotic songs by George M. Cohan, and many of those were written for Broadway shows.

At Tuesday’s concert at Austintown Township Park, the band will partner with Lit Youngstown, and local poets will read works inspired by the Broadway theme.

“We started doing this a couple years ago,” Pellegrini said. “We play a couple pieces and then we have a reading or two and then we go back and forth. It’s become a pretty nice little partnership.”

Other performances during Pellegrini’s final season include the Youngstown State University Summer Festival of the Arts on July 12, Mastropietro Winery in Berlin Center on July 13, the Music in the Park with Friends concert with the Mercer Community Band at Boardman Park on July 27 and a fundraiser for LOOP Youngstown at Westside Bowl on Nov. 21 before his final concert on Dec. 21 as the band plays with the Stambaugh Chorus for the Holiday Concert of Giving at Stambaugh Auditorium.

“It’s been a wonderful experience all these years with great people,” he said. “Making music and doing some challenging music, it’s a great thing for me. It’s a highlight of my life and career.”

If you go …

WHAT: Youngstown Area Community Concert Band

WHEN: 7 p.m. Tuesday

WHERE: Austintown Township Park, 6000 Kirk Road

HOW MUCH: Admission is free.