You gotta love the stirring marches of John Philip Sousa. And did you know that the March King brought his band to Keene on six occasions? Well, he’ll be back in the (re-enacted) flesh at the Redfern’s Main Theatre on Tuesday, April 7, at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Keith Brion, who portrays the band leader and is considered the greatest living authority on Sousa, will conduct the KSC Concert Band in an historically accurate recreation of a Sousa Band concert, just as you would have heard it 100 years ago, in honor of KSC’s Centennial Celebration.
Brion will be at the College for a week, speaking to classes on music history, conducting, and the theatre craft involved in depicting the on-stage persona.