HANCEVILLE — The Glenn Miller Orchestra will be performing this week at Wallace State Community College on Thursday and Friday at 7 p.m.
General admissions tickets to the Thursday show are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. The event will be held in the Betty Leeth Haynes Theater and there will be a student discount.
On Friday, Feb. 5, there will be a four course fine cuisine served, followed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra with dancing in the Great Hall of the New Burrow Center for the Fine and Performing Arts.
Free ballroom dancing lessons will be offered in the Burrow Center today, from 2 to 4 p.m. for those attending the dinner dance.
Tickets for this event will be $75 with proceeds going to the Wallace State Future Foundation.
Tickets are on sale now. Visit www.wallacestate.edu/yoa or call 352-8144.
Glenn Miller was born in 1904 in Clarinda, Iowa. The first Glenn Miller Orchestra, formed in 1937, was a financial failure.
In March 1938, Glenn Miller launched his second band, and unlike the first, it became an enormous success with multiple hit records and huge box office sales.
In 1942, Miller volunteered for the army and organized the famous Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band.
On December 15, 1944, Major Miller took off in a single engine plane from England to precede his band to France, never to be seen again. The army officially declared him dead one year later.
Due to popular demand, the Miller Estate authorized the formation of the present Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1956.
The Glenn Miller Orchestra is a fully self-contained group consisting of the musical director, five saxophone players, four trumpeters, four trombonists, and three rhythm musicians (piano, bass and drums). Also, there are two vocalists, one male and one female, who perform individually and as part of “The Moonlight Serenaders“ vocal group.
Tiffany Green can be reached by e-mail at tgreen@cullmantimes.com or by telephone at 734-2131, ext. 220.
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