HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, JUNE 11 ‘Seize The Day’ Concert With Oneonta Community Concert Band COMMUNITY CONCERT—3 p.m. The Oneonta Community Concert Band presents “Seize the Day,” conducted by Andrew D. Pease, which imagines making the most of a summer day by spending it on vacation at the beach. Features works such as Patrick J. Burns’ “Seize the Day,” Michael Markowski’s “Sunny-Side Up” followed by David Maslanka’s “Rollo Takes a Walk” (on the beach, musically speaking) and John Philip Sousa’s “Manhattan…
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OCCB Salute To Veterans Prompts Poem Recital The Oneonta Community Concert Band, above, held its 18th annual Salute To Veterans Concert in the halls of the Foxcare Center this evening. One audience member, 90-year-old Leslie Collins, right, was so moved by their performance of “The Armed Forces Salute” by Bob Lowden, he approached director Andrew Pease to ask if he could recite the poem, “For The Fallen,” by Lawrence Binyon. Pease obliged. The poem, written in 1914, is often recited…