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“It’s Summertime”: Dexter Community Band
Bill Gourley directs this volunteer ensemble in a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with a program that includes William Schuman’s Chester Overture, based on tunes by the Colonial-era New England composer William Billings, John Williams’ tribute to the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Fanfare, and Robert Russell Bennett’s Suite of Old American Dances. The program features Randol Bass’s A New Birth of Freedom, a setting of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, with narration by U-M music professor Stephen West. 3 p.m., Dexter Center for the Performing Arts, Dexter High School, 2200 N. Parker, Dexter. Free. (734) 426–2734.
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