EVENING AT THE POPS GRANDE FINALE!

Saturday, May 3, 2008 – 7:30 PM
Amelia Center Theatre,
Gulf Coast Community College



The final concert of our 2007-2008 season will be a night for everyone and every age. Experience the thrill of The Panama City POPS playing quality music with familiar songs. This night will be filled with music that has stood the test of time. Musical highlights from our season Grande Finale! include:

• "William Tell Overture"
• "Waltz On the Beautiful Blue Danube"
• "Sabre Dance"
• “Overture to Candide"
• Debussy's "Clair de Lune"


• Since this is an Olympic year, we will be playing "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" by John Williams and his "Superman March" from the movie Superman. 
  
• With the addition of the POPS chorale, we will be celebrating the compositions of Andrew Lloyd Webber with a medley from his hit musicals including Phantom of the Opera, Cats, and Jesus Christ, Superstar.  
  
• Also being featured for this concert is the music from "The Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End." 



It will be the most exciting concert of the year!   Bring the kids!!! The evening also includes the live auction of Carl Webb’s painting, “Strings” as seen on this season’s brochures and program covers.

• Look over this years full concert schedule or view our brochure, and purchase tickets now for this ambitious offering of the new Panama City POPS Orchestra!

Our Mission

• To provide quality performances of traditional, contemporary and popular symphonic music for the people of Bay County and surrounding area.
• To supplement the music programs of the local public, private, and home schools, community college and university by training advanced student musicians in the art of orchestral performance.
• To provide an opportunity for adults to enjoy and improve the music skills they acquired in life, and to pass these skills on to the next generation through mentoring of student musicians.

Our Vision

• To become an orchestra of excellence, to which competent local musicians will be eager to belong and which the people of Bay County will be proud to call their own.

Membership

Membership in the Orchestra is determined by audition and is open to all advanced students and/or musicians of Bay County and the surrounding areas. Click here to inquire about an audition for the Panama City POPS Orchestra.

Our History

The Panama City POPS Orchestra (formerly the Orchestra of St. Andrew Bay) began in 1996 as a small group of string players seeking opportunities to play and perform together. Led by John Boozer, this ensemble soon grew into a complete orchestra, playing a wide variety of symphonic music and training talented musicians guided by experienced adults.

At the end of the 1999-2000 season, Dr. Boozer left for a position in North Carolina, and the baton passed to Rusty Garner of Gulf Coast Community College, Division of Visual and Performing Arts. During his tenure the orchestra formed a close cooperative relationship with the college and presented Bay County audiences a series of ambitious and entertaining programs. Mr. Garner retired at the end of the 2005-2006 season.

The orchestra is fortunate to have had available an accomplished, creative and enthusiastic replacement in Mr. Eddie Rackley, a recent transplant to Bay County, and is looking is looking forward to the 2007-2008 season under his leadership.

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