POTSDAM – Potsdam Community Band will host its winter concert “A Musical Melting Pot:  American Band Music to Warm Your Winter,” Sunday, Jan. 21, at 3 p.m. at SUNY Potsdam’s Hosmer Concert Hall. 

Admission is free, but donations to the now-famous PCB “donation tuba” in the Hosmer Hall lobby are gratefully accepted.

The wide variety of wind band literature to be performed truly represents a melting pot of styles, eras and genres. From music from the movies and TV, to concert marches; from folk songs from the Balkans and the American heartland, to mid-20th century wind band classics.

The concert will feature Claude T. Smith’s march Black Watch and the Symphonic Suite from Star Trek, by Michael Giacchino.  Continuing in the “Trek” vein, PCB will be offering a new piece by the American composer Erika Svanoe entitled Where No One Has Gone Before. Another more recent work to be played is a wonderful setting of the American folk song Shenandoah by the African-American composer Omar Thomas.

January 21st’s Community Band performance will also include two compositions featuring members of the trumpet section by the 20th Century composer Leroy Anderson.  Bugler’s Holiday will feature the playing of Paul Buell, Diana Martin and Steve LaMere, while Buell will solo again on the beautiful Trumpeter’s Lullaby.  Selections from Carol Barnett’s evocative Cyprian Suite will transport you to the Balkans through the magic of folk music of the region.

Fred Steiner’s Rocky and Bullwinkle Strike Again! will take many back to carefree days of TV cartoons, and Selections from “Annie” by Charles Strouse brings music from the Broadway musical to life. Finally, a transcription of the orchestral work Juba Dance by Florence Price rounds out the afternoon.