Palos Verdes Symphonic Band Director David Stanton
Musical Director David Stanton leads the Palos Verdes Symphonic Band into its 50th year Musical Director David Stanton brings a varied background to a Peninsula institution. Photo As the Palos Verdes Symphonic Band celebrates its 50th anniversary with a March 25 performance at the Norris Theater, David Stanton will be nearing his first anniversary as musical director. Not that Stanton is new to the nonprofit community band, which entertains at numerous area venues, delights holiday audiences, plays at civic and charity functions, and sounds notes of solemn comfort at memorial ceremonies. Stanton played first clarinet for 11 years before stepping in to conduct and direct. “I’m delighted to be doing this,” said Stanton, 59, a serious music teacher and performer with a background ranging from symphonic music to Broadway. “It’s a wonderful opportunity.” The spring concert in March will provide, in part, a retrospective of “classic masterworks” the 60-piece community band has played. Additions to the repertoire include a piece the band commissioned for the occasion from respected composer Carolyn Bremer, chair of the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University, Long…
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