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› What: Patriotic Celebration and Organ Concert.› When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 28.› Where: Memorial Auditorium, 399 McCallie Ave.› Admission: Free.› Website: chattanoogamusicclub.org.
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The Chattanooga Music Club has planned a patriotic concert full of Americana from its opening posting of the colors by a Joint Armed Forces Services color guard to a rousing rendition of John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” that concludes the program Tuesday night, June 28, in Memorial Auditorium.
The free community concert will feature Peter Richard Conte playing the auditorium’s 1924 Austin pipe organ. Tuesday’s concert marks the 10th anniversary of the restoration of this historic instrument by the Chattanooga Music Club. It is especially appropriate that Conte should be the featured soloist, says program organizer Evelyn Gibbs, because he was the featured soloist at the organ’s rededication program a decade ago in the auditorium.
“He’s one of the finest organists in the world, and he has a great following,” says Gibbs. “I think it’s fantastic we were able to get him to come back after 10 years. He just did such a great job that first year that we had to have him come back.”