Syndicated from: Living in the Queer Times | Gay News, http://thequeertimes.com/2010/07/gay-games-michael-tolliver/

By Michael Tolliver

Michael Tolliver

As a musician and board member with the Lesbian and Gay Band Association, I was both excited and apprehensive when I agreed to accept the responsibility of spearheading the Team Band effort more than two years ago. Although I had planned and organized several large events over the past several years, the ability to understand and manage the many issues associated with bringing musicians and instruments from all over the world to Germany presented a completely different and unique set of challenges.

Syndicated from: Boston.com, http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/06/13/bosto...

By Megan Woolhouse and Sydney Lupkin | Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent / June 13, 2010

Essdras M. Suarez | Globe Staff

The Lesbian and Gay Big Apple Corps color guard marched in the parade.

Gary Ende, of New York, twirled a flag with other members of the Lesbian and Gay Big Apple Corps color guard .

There were beads, batons, and body paint, but this year’s gay pride parade in Boston was also a political battlefield in the campaign for governor.

Syndicated from: QOnStage.com, New York's Performance and Arts Reviews site at http://www.qonstage.com/QOnStage_articles/2010bac_554Gelbert/art_tpl_w-5...

Soloist, James Adler

Bruce-Michael Gelbert. Posted April 27, 2010

The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps (LGBAC) Symphonic Band's spring concert, under Artistic Director Brian P. Worsdale's baton, on April 24 at the Julia Richman Complex, on the Upper East Side, was entitled "Symphonic Power: a Dynamic Evening of Music," and dynamic it was indeed. The focus was on four pieces, two lengthy ones, bracketed by two overtures, rather than on various shorter pieces, intended to demonstrate the musicians' accomplishments in a diversity of styles. The latter sort of concert works well for the Corps, but this kind worked, too.

The long piece in the first half was Sergey Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Number 2 in C minor, opus 18, in a band transcription by LGBAC flutist Scott Oaks, with Oaks' partner, composer, pianist and teacher James Adler, as guest soloist.

Syndicated from: The Caucus: The Politics and Government Blog of the New York Times, http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/gay-band-to-march-in-inaug...

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

For the first time, a gay and lesbian band will be marching in a presidential inauguration.

Barack Obama’s Presidential Inaugural Committee has chosen the Lesbian and Gay Band Association, with members from across the country, to march in the inaugural parade in Washington on Jan. 20.