The Quincy Concert Band will open its 27th season with a fall concert at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8, in the Quincy Junior High School Morrison Theater, 100 S. 14th.

The concert program will feature the first movement from "Scheherazade," by Rimsky-Korsakov, "Ceremonial" (a work written for the Quincy Concert Band) by Jack Bullock, Johann Sebastian Bach's "Organ Fugue in G minor," "The Inferno" by Robert Smith, the first movement from Vittorio Giannini's "Symphony No. 3," "Symphonic Dance Music" from "West Side Story" by Leonard Bernstein, "Medley" from "Miss Saigon" arranged by Warren Barker, and "MacArthur Park" by Jimmy Webb.

After 13 years as conductor of the band, William DeMont will be stepping off the podium following this concert.

The Quincy Concert Band is a volunteer community organization comprised of adult musicians from the Hannibal/Quincy area.

The Quincy Concert Band concerts are free to the public due to the generosity of their patrons. Anyone with questions or wishing to become a patron should contact William DeMont at 224-5269 or Richard Bybee, band president, at 223-7113 or 223-4327.