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Watauga Community Band WCB preparing for Spring Concert WCBs Fall Concert A Success Despite Helene The WCB is excited to begin rehearsing in earnest for the Spring Concert after our recent spell of bitter winter weather. We welcome several students from Appalachian State local high schools and even middle schools who have joined us for the semester. The band led by conductor Billy Ralph Winkler is still finalizing the repertoire. Candidate works include Variations on a Korean Folk Song by John Barnes Chance with its eastern influence and challenging runsConcert Suite from Carnival of the Animals arranged by Geoffrey Brand from SaintSaens great work that musically depicts a variety of our animal friends sometimes in a lilting tune and other times somewhat humorouslyRaiders of the Lost Ark Medley transcribed by Jack Bullock from John Williams composition which will take you back a few years to imagine joining Indiana Jones on his questLoch Lomond a peaceful work arranged by John McAllister with Scottish overtonesRocky River Celebration is a beautiful piece by Kevin Townsend that varies from pastoral to rollickingThe Great Locomotive Chase by Robert W.