{"id":2441,"date":"2012-09-17T17:59:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T21:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenprovidencepark.org\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2012-09-17T18:08:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T22:08:13","slug":"a-magical-afternoon-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenprovidencepark.org\/2012\/09\/17\/a-magical-afternoon-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"A Magical Afternoon Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

We could not have asked for a more lovely concert as our inaugural concert in Glen Providence Park<\/strong>\u00a0on September 9!\u00a0 After a stormy forecast for our scheduled Saturday concert, we were delighted in the idyllic fall weather<\/strong> on our Sunday afternoon rain date!\u00a0 Dappled sunlight, a light breeze, and the shade of that lovely old White Oak<\/strong> were a perfect backdrop for over 150 people to enjoy the outstanding performance by Philadelphia Brass.<\/strong> The concert was even accompanied by the singing of \u00a0birds- it was magical!<\/p>\n

Philadelphia Brass was exceptional, even providing entertaining and informative introductions to each piece,<\/strong> including the Elgar’s ethereal Nimrod;\u00a0<\/em>excerpts from West Side Story; Mack the Knife;\u00a0<\/em>and Duke Ellington’s It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got that Swing)<\/em>.\u00a0 You can view our Afternoon Concert program<\/a>\u00a0for all of the selections played, and listen to some pieces on the Philadelphia Brass website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The stage itself was beautiful- the result of volunteering on 3 different days by Friends of Glen Providence Park, starting a year ago in September<\/a>, and including the day of the concert!\u00a0 It was wonderful to return concerts to the Glen Providence Park Stage, where so many summer concerts were held for decades<\/a>.\u00a0 And it seemed appropriate that Tom Hibberd was in the audience- it was under his grandfather Stanley T. Hibberd that Delaware County Parks & Recreation presented the first concert concert in the park on June 29, 1937!<\/strong><\/p>\n

A tremendous thank you to those who made the concert possible:<\/strong> Delaware County Park & Recreation<\/a>; our generous sponsors Media Recreation Board<\/a> and Blueberry Bog Vintage & Handmade<\/a>; our donors; the terrific and tireless volunteers of Friends of Glen Providence Park,\u00a0<\/strong>and of course Philadelphia Brass!<\/p>\n

The concert must have been destined to be on Sunday afternoon- the Seurat painting we displayed on our flyers, posters and program is entitled A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte 1884<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

We hope this was the first of many more concerts in the park!<\/p>\n

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Thank you to George Tate for taking these wonderful photographs… scroll through to see what the concert was like!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\t