Bruce-Michael Gelbert reviews our latest concert on [Q]onStage:

For the Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps’ (LGBAC) fall concert, at Symphony Space on December 2, under the baton of Artistic Director Brian P. Worsdale, our community’s band gave its regards to Broadway, and acknowledged the holiday season as well, in a rousing concert called “The Great American Songbook.” It was the opening of the Corps’ 32nd season, and Broadway and Birdland’s Jim Caruso was its guest MC and brought along a quartet of other distinguished singers, all donating their talents.

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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.

The Lesbian and Gay Big Apple Corps at Symphony Space in Manhattan - Brian Worsdale Conducting

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Bruce-Michael Gelbert. Posted November 15, 2009 | 11:54 PM (EST)

Our community's cherished band, the Big Apple Corps, in its formal concert incarnation as the Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps Symphonic Band, celebrated the pearl anniversary of the Corps' founding, in 1979, with "Generations: A 30-Year Celebration," a festive evening at the Peter Norton Symphony Space, on November 14. Beside Artistic Director Brian P. Worsdale, past Music Directors were welcomed back to the stage to preside over some of the selections.

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By Jim Luce. Posted April 30, 2009 | 11:54 PM (EST)

As Harvey Milk, a transplanted New Yorker, pulled the gay and lesbian community of San Francisco together in the mid-1970s, like-minded musicians there formed the world's first gay and lesbian marching band.

New Yorkers took notice and a sister band was born the next year in Manhattan. They marched down Fifth Avenue for the first time in 1980. Fast forward 30 years, when gays and lesbians have more rights but still no equal marriage, and the Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps prepares for its 30th anniversary event.