Ontario Chaffey Community Show Band to present pops concert
The Ontario Chaffey Community Show Band will present “An Evening at the Pops,” a concert of music from the concert hall and world of popular music, 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 15, at the Merton E. Hill Auditorium on the campus of Chaffey High School, 1245 N. Euclid Ave., Ontario. Admission is free, and before the concert, the Woodwind Celebration Ensemble will perform at 7 p.m. in the lobby, where coffee and cookies will be available. Featured soloists from the band will be Gary Simpson, Trisha Molina, Francisco Mowatt, Natasha Le and John Holguin. Gary Simpson, a trumpeter in the band, has made an arrangement of the first movement of Franz Joseph Haydn’s 1796 Concerto per il Clarino (Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major), and he will solo in the band’s performance of that piece, according to a news release. Flutist Trisha Molina will be featured in her original composition “Libertango,” a piece for flute and alto flute that breaks away from the traditional tango. Francisco Mowatt will play an alto saxophone solo in “Never Let Me Go,” a ballad from the 1950s popularized by Nancy Wilson