Memorial Day @ NPS
To Remember and Honor
Part of the Monterey County Pops! 34th Annual Free Memorial Day Weekend Concerts.
Sunday at NPS and Monday at Colton Hall.S
Sunday May 26, 2019 at Noon.
Noon on SUNDAY on the lawn in front of Herrmann Hall (the historic Del Monte Hotel) on the grounds of the Naval Postgraduate School. 3
Check the Naval Postgraduate School website for parking information.
The performance, sponsored by the US Navy office of Morale, Welfare and Recreation, will begin with the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner and a Medley of Armed Forces Theme Songs. Monterey County Pops! Music Director, Dr. Carl Christensen will conduct. The popular local Monterey Peninsula Cypressaires Barbershop Chorus will entertain at 11:15.
The US Navy will be honored with performances of Parade of the Tall Ships and Fantasy on American Sailing songs.
Soprano, Stephanie Hulsey, will perform America (My Country ‘Tis of Thee), America the Beautiful, and God Bless America.
American jazz will be represented by Basin Street Blues and Tailgate Ramble.
The program will also include the traditional American favorites American Salute and The Blue and the Gray – Civil War Suite.
American marches such as High School Cadets and National Emblem will be included.
The program will conclude this the playing of the Navy Hymn, Taps, and Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever
