The Sequim City Band and the Port Townsend Summer Band will present “Music Together” with free concerts in both Sequim and Port Townsend this weekend.
The bands will perform at 3 p.m. Saturday at the James Center for the Performing Arts, 506 N. Blake Ave., Sequim, and a repeat performance at 1 p.m. Sunday at Pope Marine Park, 530 Water St., Port Townsend.
Each performance will feature a set by the Port Townsend Summer Band, a set by the Sequim City Band and close with a combined performance of the two bands.
Marge Rosen will direct the Port Townsend Summer Band in a mix of movie magic, jazz classics and Broadway tunes.
The program will include Alan Silvestri’s “Back to the Future” from the 1985 film, “The Return of the Pink Panther” by Henry Mancini, Tan Dun’s score from the 2000 film “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and “For Good” from the Broadway musical “Wicked.”
The set also will highlight alto saxophonist Maria Powell on the jazz standard “Harlem Nocturne” by Duke Ellington and on Fritz Neuböck’s “Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone and Band.”
The Sequim City Band, under the direction of Tyler Benedict, will begin with “Fanfare Esprit” by Carol Britton Chambers, followed by the Spanish march “Amparito Roca,” composed by Jaime Texidor and named for his daughter.
The tuba section will take the lead in an unconventional arrangement of the Tin Pan Alley classic “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” by Al Dubin and Joe Burke.
The program will continue with “Choose Joy” by Randall D. Standridge, a medley of Rodgers and Hammerstein classics including “Oklahoma,” “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” and “Getting to Know You.”
The set will close with Henry Fillmore’s march “The Klaxon.”
John Philip Sousa’s “The Thunderer” will be the grand finale for both concerts, featuring more than 100 musicians on stage.
For more information, visit www.sequimcityband.org or www.ptsummerband.org.
