Annual Side by Side Concert
America 250
- Sunday, April 19, 2026 @ 4:00 pm
The Allentown Band in concert side by side with 50 top high school musicians from area high schools.
THE ALLENTOWN BAND
Ronald Demkee, Conductor
Loras Schissel, Guest Conductor, Virginia Grand Military Band (Ret) Senior Musicologist, Library of Congress
Scott Shelsta, Guest Soloist, Principal Trombone U.S. Army Band (Ret)
This concert is FREE – No tickets are needed
PROGRAM
Part 1- Allentown Band
John Williams/Lavender
Liberty Fanfare
Morton Gould
Symphony for Band (West Point) Mvt 2 Marches
Ronald Demkee, Conducting
Arthur Pryor/arr. Scott Shelsta
Air Vari
Scott Shelsta, Trombone
Thomas Knox
American Pageant
Loras Schissel, Conducting
Intermission
Part 2- Combined with Students
John Philip Sousa
Sesquicentennial Exposition March (1926)
Clare Grundman
A Bernstein Tribute
Ronald Demkee, Conducting
Hoagy Carmichael/Scott Shelsta
Star Dust
Scott Shelsta, Trombone
Richard Rodgers/Robert Russell Bennett
Victory at Sea
John Philip Sousa
Stars and Stripes Forever
Loras Schissel, Conducting
LORAS SCHISSEL, Conductor
SCOTT SHELSTA, Trombone