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Garden City Strings, City Band open season with joint concert and tribute to longtime trumpeter
Summary
Garden City Strings and the City Band opened their season with a joint performance that included a tribute to a longtime trumpeter who died at age 102, a mix of chamber and popular music, and remarks about the ensembles’ volunteer roots and small city funding support.
Garden City Strings and the City Band opened the season with a joint concert that included a tribute to a longtime trumpeter and a varied program of marches, tangos, folk and popular songs. The event featured guest vocalist Colleen, oboist Kathy McCoy and arrangements by cellist Ron Wilcott.
The concert’s host began by noting the death of a longtime trumpet player identified in the program as "**** Johnson," saying, "He was a jolly good fella." The announcer described Johnson as having played with the group for decades, surviving multiple pacemaker surgeries and losing much of his sight before he ultimately stopped playing because he could no longer hear…
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