The U.S. Navy Concert Band at Luhrs Performing Arts Center at Shippensburg University

Name: The U.S. Navy Concert Band at Luhrs Performing Arts Center at Shippensburg University
Start: 2026-04-26T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Luhrs Performing Arts Center

Schedule

Sun, 26 Apr, 2026 at 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Luhrs Performing Arts Center | Shippensburg, PA

Concert is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.
Program:
Captain Robert J. Coats, conducting
- American Overture for Band by Joseph Wilcox Jenkins
- Anchor and Star March by John Philip Sousa
- Harrison’s Dream by Peter Graham
- Viktor’s Tale from “The Terminal” by John Williams, trans. Paul Lavender, featuring Chief Musician Lauren Geist, clarinet
- The Fantastic Voyage by Michael-Thomas Foumai
- First Suite in F by Thomas Ritter George, ed. R. Mark Rogers
- America the Beautiful by Katherine Lee Bates and Samuel A. Ward, arr. Senior Chief Musician Christopher Buchanan, featuring Senior Chief Musician Bill Edwards, vocals
- Program subject to change -
About the ensemble:
The United States Navy Concert Band, the premier wind ensemble of the U.S. Navy, presents a wide array of marches, patriotic selections, orchestral transcriptions and modern wind ensemble repertoire. As the original ensemble of the Navy Band, the Concert Band has been performing public concerts and participating in high-profile events for more than 95 years.
Collaboration with celebrities has become a hallmark for the Concert Band. The band was featured with Arthur Godfrey of NBC radio fame in 1927. Gene Kelly was guest star for the first episode of "The Navy Hour" radio program in 1945, which the band produced for an astounding 23 years. More recently, the band featured guest artists Tony Curtis and Gregory Peck. In 2002, the band was filmed performing "America the Beautiful;" the performance was broadcast by the NFL prior to each game during opening week. In addition to national concert tours and an extensive local concert season, the Concert Band has been featured internationally at military tattoos and festivals in Oslo, Norway, Stockholm and Quebec City, Canada. In 1996, the band was honored to participate in the 300th Anniversary of the Russian Fleet in St. Petersburg, Russia, and in the Baltic International Festival of the Fleets in Kaliningrad, Russia. Recognized as one of the finest wind ensembles in the world, the Concert Band is in constant demand by the nation's foremost musical education organizations, such as the American Bandmasters Association and The Midwest Clinic.