SEQUIM — Musical tributes to Earth’s unique features get a song-filled spotlight at the Sequim City Band’s concert, “Postcards from Earth,” set for 3 p.m. Sunday.
Led by city band conductor Tyler Benedict, the concert and on-site parking are free at the Sequim High School auditorium, 533 N. Sequim Ave.
“Kilimanjaro – An African Portrait” is an image of the East African areas of Kenya and Tanzania, the people who live there and their heritage.
The work has rhythmic vitality and musical textures in three sections played without pause: “The Plain: The Serengeti,” “The People: Masai Dance” and “The Mountain: Kilimanjaro.”
The 1911 piece “Irish Tune from County Derry” traces its roots to Percy Grainger, who found the tune in an archive of ancient music of Ireland that had been submitted by fiddle player Miss Jane Ross.
Ross didn’t give the tune a name so Grainger did, and others later gave it lyrics, including the familiar “Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling.”
Inspired by the famous “Arch of Los Cabos” found at the southernmost tip of the Baja California peninsula, the tune “El Arco de Los Cabos” (2013) by Ed Huckeby features a Latin percussion section supporting brass instruments contrasted with woodwind lines.
“Grand Canyon Fanfare” was written by James Newton Howard for the closing segment of the motion picture “Grand Canyon.”
Contrasting that is “Yosemite Autumn,” a 2004 piece written by Mark Camphouse, a music educator in Virginia, who used the awesome sights and sounds of Yosemite National Park as an inspiration.
Closer to home, “Olympic Grandeur” — written by the band’s founding director Chuck Swisher — sees its Olympic Peninsula premier.
The city band’s next performance is “Sequim’s the Season,” the annual holiday concert set for 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15, also in the Sequim High School auditorium.
The Sequim City Band is a registered nonprofit organization that operates on donations from band members and the public.
For more information about the band, see www.sequim cityband.org or www.facebook.com/Sequim.City.Band.
