Bay Cities' Symphonic: New concert takes listeners on a musical journey inspired by famous landscapes

With its next concert, Bay Cities' Symphonic is ready to take listeners on a transcontinental musical adventure, from the Scottish Highlands to the windswept coast of Alaska.

On Sunday, September 8, the Hastings Music Society will host its annual music festival featuring the Bay Cities's Symphonic Band at St. Matthew's Church in Hastings.

This year's program builds on the group's successful concerts from last year and is inspired by Robert Buckley's Symphony Portraits of the North.

With the third movement of the symphony IditarodThe audience can look forward to an exciting musical dog sled race through the rugged mountain ranges, dense forests and windswept coasts of Alaska.

The band will also perform two of their more complex works from the recent New Zealand Concert Band Festival in Hamilton, including the whitewater rafting adventures of Rogue River by Ralph Ford and the galactic Orbit by Adrian Sims.