Take a step back into the 1930s and ‘40s with the world-famous Glenn Miller Orchestra, for the ultimate musical celebration of the legendary big band leader, Glenn Miller led by Ray McVay on Sunday 8 March 3pm at Eastbourne’s Congress Theatre.
Following sold-out performances at the Barbican London, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall and Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, the orchestra take to the road with a concert tour featuring all Miller’s most popular hits. This is a perfect Sunday afternoon concert and is sure to get toes tapping!
Featuring a selection of the maestro’s biggest hits including In the Mood, Moonlight Serenade, American Patrol, Little Brown Jug, Tuxedo Junction and of course the seminal Pennsylvania 6-5000 to name just a few (along with a few surprises along the way!).
The UK’s only official Glenn Miller tour features the exact orchestra line-up devised by Glenn and also features the fabulous harmonies of the ‘Moonlight Serenaders’ vocal group, the sublime voices of the orchestra’s two lead singers, and the orchestra’s own swinging jazz band ‘The Uptown Hall Gang’.
Directed by veteran band leader and conductor, Ray McVay, and with a mix of impeccable musicianship, infectious energy and authentic vintage style, the Glenn Miller Orchestra are an experience not to be missed and remain the way to hear Miller’s timeless music.
Glenn Miller was a trailblazer in the Big Band sound and the music is as memorable and as melodic today as when it first burst into the public consciousness. But there’s a mystery and deep sadness that surrounds this uplifting and infectious music, which has a poignant local connection to Eastbourne.
The enigma of Glenn Miller’s disappearance persists, and it has a chilling local connection after the aircraft that he was travelling to Paris in mysteriously disappeared; Military observers charted the aircraft south from England over Beachy Head on Friday 15 December 1944 between 14:30 and 14:45. But it did not appear over France and it was never seen again. It remains a great unsolved mystery, but while the man disappeared, his music never will, as this show pays testament to even all these years on.
Book now for the Glenn Miller Orchestra, on Sunday 8 March 3pm at Eastbourne’s Congress Theatre, see eastbournetheatres.co.uk or call 01323 412000.
