The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps Symphonic Band
A Big Band Holiday: Music from the 1940's
The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps Symphonic Band celebrates our in person, on-stage return with a joyous holiday program featuring big band favorites from the 1940's. Sing along to such beloved hits as Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", "Happy Holiday", "Auld Lang Syne", and the ever popular "Mele Kalikimaka (Hawaiian Christmas Song)". Also featured on the program will be a bundle of familiar standards made famous by Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, and the Andrews Sisters.
ABOUT US
The tagline “The Sound of Love and Joy” tells the story of The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps. Since its formation in 1979, this band of brothers and sisters has been making music and art for audiences across the United States and Canada.
The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps Symphonic Band has shared the stage with such luminaries as Harvey Fierstein, Rita Moreno, Liz Smith, Arthur Laurents, Randy Graff, Edie Windsor, Liz Callaway, Stephen Schwartz, and the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus. But not only has the band performed with the famous, it has performed for the famous: the Big Apple Corps’ music has been heard by three American presidents and by countless celebrities along many parade routes. A proud founding member of the Lesbian and Gay Band Association, the Big Apple Corps has performed from coast-to-coast with the LGBA massed band, featuring the combined membership of 30 bands from around the world.
With a membership of over 200 musicians, color guard members, and Band Aides, The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps plans to go on lifting the hearts of audiences in concert halls and along parade routes for years to come.
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