Staff Writer
On Sunday May 31, beginning at 7 p.m. in the Caribou Performing Arts Center, the Caribou High School Symphonic Band will present a concert in honor of the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln and the Sesquicentennial of the city of Caribou. Caribou High School Band Director Vaughn McGlaughlin sated, “We are pleased to announce that the special guest narrator for Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait” will be Senator Susan Collins. The work by Copland includes the historic words by Abraham Lincoln presented in his address at Gettysburg.”
The concert will also include an entire symphony written by Robert W. Smith based on Homer’s novel “The Odyssey” and Tchaikovsky’s “Flight of the Bumblebee.”
McGlaughlin continued, “Also, on the program, will be two symphonic arrangements for concert choir accompanied by the Symphonic Band of “America the Beautiful” and the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” We would like to invite community members to join us in the presentation of the two choral pieces.”
The CHS band director added, “We hope that you will join us as we celebrate our history through music.”
