American Musical Productions

Hart’s Boys & Girls Band Concert

presented in Collaboration with
Huber Opera House & Hicksville sesquincentennial
Friday, June 6, 2025 7:00 PM
Huber Opera House
157 East High Street, Hicksville, OH  43526
free admission

Celebrate Hicksville’s Sesquicentennial with an authentic “living history” concert recreating Hart’s Boys and Girls Bands. In 1907, Hicksville jeweler and musician O.V. Hart formed and trained a band of local boys.  The band gained local and national notoriety performing at the Huber Opera House, as well as touring throughout the state. When World War One called for the local boys, Professor Hart formed one of the first all-girl concert bands. Hart’s Girls Band took toured the country in the 1920s, but always returned to its homebase of Hicksville with annual concerts at the Huber. This exciting concert will pay long overdue tribute to both ensembles.

Joseph N. Rubin conducts American Musical Productions’ 23-piece concert band attired in period uniforms. The FREE two-hour concert culled from recently discovered Hart’s Boys and Girls Band programs from 1909 and 1919 at Huber Opera House will feature many beloved band classics. Step back in time to hear the same music your great-grandparents enjoyed; from light classics “Poet and Peasant Overture,” to “Selections from The Wizard of Oz” (the original 1902 musical extravaganza), and, of course, marches by John Philip Sousa!