The Maine Pops Concert Band completed its 2024 fall concert before a fairly large audience inside the Westbrook Performing Arts Center in Westbrook, ME on November 3, 2024.
Nearly 85 members of the Maine Pops performed seven compositions in its first performance since its summer concert at the Bath Library Gazebo in August.
In the concert program, Director David Watts wrote, "My inspiration for selecting our repertoire for this season came from people listening to music and making the comment, 'What’s the name of that song? I can’t place where I’ve heard it before.'”
Watts emphasized to the audience the role of this fall concert. "Some music simply transcends understanding. It
moves our soul," said Watts. "It lives in the recesses of our minds and can bring us joy, sadness, or simply Transport us to another time or location. Let the pieces today transport you."
The band performed the following compositions:
Eighties Flashback (medley)
The Rakes of Mallow
Excerpts from Appalachian Spring
Summer of '69 (medley)
Adagio for Strings
Light Cavalry Overture
Seventy-Six Trombones
The event opened with a pre-concert performance by the Maine Pops Flute Choir as patrons entered the center.
The next Maine Pops Concert will be its annual Christmas Benefit Concert, slated for Sunday, December 15 at Falmouth High School in Falmouth, Maine. Doors will open at 2 p.m. for a 2:30 p.m. concert.