BRONX, N.Y. — The Lehman College Community Band will present a benefit concert, entitled “Music for Haiti,” at 1 p.m. on Sunday, February 21, in the Lovinger Theatre. Led by Professor Alan Hollander, the band will perform a variety of pops, Broadway favorites, marches and other arrangements for symphonic wind band, composed by George Gershwin, Percy Grainger, John Philip Sousa, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cole Porter and others.
The concert, cosponsored by the Department of Music and Lehman Stages, is free, but donations are requested. All funds raised will go to the American Red Cross to help with its disaster relief efforts in Haiti.
For more information, contact the Lehman Music Department at 718-960-8247 or [email protected].
A senior college of the City University of New York, Lehman is located at Goulden Avenue and Bedford Park Boulevard in the northwest Bronx and is accessible by bus as well as the #4 and “D” subway lines. Free attended parking is available.
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