Fast, slow, somber, fun - the Bay Concert Band has music to fit all moods during its annual Christmas concert.
''It has very difficult music,'' said 'Christmas Variants.' It turned out to be a very Variants'' is Jeannine Coughlin, a former student School.
Coughlin is now band director at Saginaw High Kjellberg says is familiar to everyone.
tradition,'' he said. ''We have to play on wind instruments in a vocal style.
It's amazingly ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,'' ''Frosty the Snowman,'' ''I'll Be Home for Christmas,'' takes up the baton after intermission. Doug Burtch will conduct the band in ''Shalom!'' rhythms of the Jewish faith.
''It's a glamorous piece,'' he Clear,'' ''Finale for a Winter Festival'' and the ultimate Christmas sing-along.
And, if the audience hasn't had enough, Kjellberg says students and senior citizens, and are available from any band member, at the Bay Arts Council, 915 Washington Ave.; Center, 1900 Columbus Ave.
; and at the door.
- Pati LaLonde is a features writer for The Times.
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