The Allentown Band’s 2026 Family Concert

America 250 - Yankee Doodling

• Saturday, October 17, 2026 @ 2:00 pm · get tickets

Tickets will be available after August 1, 2026

A YOUNG PERSON’S GUIDE TO THE CONCERT BAND
with Freedom High School Fife and Drum Corps | Michael Moran, Director

Commemorating America’s Semiquincentennial with American music representing the evolution of bands in America from the Revolutionary period’s fifes and drums to the present-day concert band.

PROGRAM
From the following:

INTRODUCTION Meet the Instruments- a brief Demonstration

Yankee Doodling Overture Daniel Kallman
Fantasie Humoresque on Yankee Doodle David W. Reeves
Fugue on Yankee Doodle John Philip Sousa
Yankee Doodle Morton Gould

The White Cockade & Yankee Doodle Revolutionary War Era
featuring the Freedom High School Fife and Drum Corps
Played with fifes and rospe tension drums -The Allentown Band in the early 18002

Northampton Quickstep Eric Coates Civil War Era
Played with brass and percussion – The Allentown Band was a brass band in the late 1800s

Concord Overture Clare Grundman
White Cockade, America, Yankee Doodle

American Pageant Thomas Knox
America, Yankee Doodle, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Dixie, America the Beautiful, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean

American Salute (Johnny Comes Marching Home) Morton Gould
This is a tribute to all things American based on When Johnny Comes Marching Home, a folk melody popular in both the North and South during the Civil War

Stars and Stripes Forever (our national march) John Philip Sousa
One of the most recognized pieces of music in the world, Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever, is the official march of the United States of America

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