For the City Times

STEVENS POINT — The Stevens Point City Band, under the direction of Kathryn Kawleski, will present its fourth concert of the summer season on Wednesday, June 26 at 7:00 PM in the Pfiffner Pioneer Park band shell along the Wisconsin River.  

“A Numerical Night” will be the theme as the band plays selections involving numbers.  Featured music will include “Summer of ’69 – The Music of Woodstock”, “A Salute to Glenn Miller”, “New York: 1927”, “Highlights From The Greatest Showman”, “Hooray for Hollywood” and Gustav Holst’s “The Planets – 1st Movement – Mars”.  “March, Opus 99” by Sergey Prokofiev will be the music for the weekly children’s march.

The evening’s highlight will be a performance by Dr. Sarah Manasreh, Lecturer of Clarinet and Music Theory at UW-Stevens Point, who will be playing the clarinet solo “Concertino, Opus 26” by Carl Maria von Weber.  Dr. Manasreh has enjoyed a diverse performing career throughout the United States and Europe.  She has served as principal clarinet in the Alma Symphony, Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, Arkansas Philharmonic and as auxiliary clarinet in the Jackson Symphony and Fort Smith Symphony.  

Dr. Manasreh also spent many years as an active woodwind doubler in jazz combos, big bands, and in Broadway productions such as Legally Blond, Little House on the Prairie, Young Frankenstein, Mary Poppins, West Side Story, South Pacific, The Rat Pack is Back, and many more. 

Michele’s Restaurant and Catering of Stevens Point will be offering food for sale before and during the concert.  Concerts are free and held Wednesday evenings through July 31. Audience members should bring chairs or blankets for seating.  In the event of inclement weather, the concert will be held in the gymnasium at St. Paul Lutheran Church and School, 1919 Wyatt Avenue, Stevens Point.