Manuel yingling
Hyperion Band Concert

PresenteD In collaboration with ARTS NCT

Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Newcomerstown Middle School Auditorium
325 W State St. Newcomerstown, OH 43832
FREE ADMISSION

American Musical Productions presents an authentic “living history” recreation of Newcomerstown’s Hyperion Band under the direction of Manuel Yingling.  The most important musical figure in the history of Newcomerstown, Manuel Yingling directed the local Hyperion Band from 1898 until 1923. A virtuoso trombonist, conductor, and composer, Yingling famously toured as soloist with John Philip Sousa’s Band in 1920. He also performed with the Royal Scotch Highlanders, Weber’s Prize Band of America, and Neddermeyer’s Band. This concert will commemorate the 100thanniversary of Manuel Yingling’s passing and will feature his trombone solo “Hyperion Polka,” along with two of his marches, unheard in their original arrangements in over a century.

Joseph N. Rubin conducts a 20-piece concert band of Northern Ohio’s finest musicians attired in period uniforms. The FREE two-hour concert recreating a May 30th, 1922 Hyperion Band program will feature many beloved band classics. Step back in time to enjoy thrilling overtures of Franz von Suppe, light opera selections by Franz Lehar, rousing marches, patriotic favorites and much more!

Hart’s Boys & Girls
Band Concert

Presented in Collaboration with The Huber Opera House

Friday, June 6, 2025 at 7:900 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 of Ohio’s finest musicians 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 musical comedy selections from the original 1902 Broadway extravaganza “The Wizard of Oz” and, of course, marches by John Philip Sousa!

WIlLIE GREEN Band Concert

Presented in collaboration with the Holmes County Bicentennial

Sunday, June 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Timothy Baker Amphitheater
2805 Glenn Dr. Millersburg, OH 44654
FREE ADMISSION

Celebrate Holmes County’s Bicentennial with an authentic “living history” concert recreating the Willie Green Band. Founded in Mount Vernon to help Coshocton politician Willie Green in his 1917 campaign for state senate, the Willie Green Band relocated to Millersburg in 1920. For three decades, the band provided musical entertainment throughout Holmes County and beyond.

Joseph N. Rubin conducts a 23-piece concert band of Ohio’s finest musicians attired in period uniforms. The FREE 80-minute concert culled from recently discovered Willie Green Band programs from 1929 and 1939 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,” “Echoes from the Metropolitan Opera House,” to “Memories of Stephen Foster,” and popular standards like “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” and, of course, rousing marches!

Dearest Enemy

Rodgers and Hart’s 1925 Musical Comedy
in Concert
Presented in Collaboration with
the Akron Bicentennial and
Akron-Summit County Public Library

Saturday, june 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Goodyear Theatre
1201 E. Market St., Akron, OH 44305
FREE ADMISSION

Celebrate Akron’s Bicentennial with a rare revival of the only Broadway musical that premiered right here in Akron 100 years ago, Dearest Enemy. The first of musical comedy score by the famous team of Rodgers & Hart, this romantic comedy takes place in 1776, during the American Revolution, when Mary Lindley Murray detained British troops in Manhattan long enough to give George Washington time to move his vulnerable troops. Hailed by the New York Evening World as “wise and truly witty and genuinely romantic,” the score includes “Here in My Arms,” “Where the Hudson River Flows” and “Bye and Bye.” American Musical Productions’ special semi-staged concert production will feature a cast of 22 local favorites and an 18-piece orchestra, under the direction of Joseph Rubin. Don’t miss what the Akron Beacon Journal raved as “the biggest theatrical innovation on record here in the past 100 years!”