Joseph N. Rubin, a musicologist with American Musical Productions, will present “Programming the Past: An Alliance City Band Encore” on Wednesday, July 1 at 11 a.m. at Rodman Public Library.

The talk is a prelude to a July 4 concert inside Silver Park that will reenact one from exactly a century ago.

During his library talk, Rubin will take the audience on a musical multimedia journey through his efforts to uncover and recreate turn-of-the-century band concert programs. Featuring video clips from his “living history” concerts throughout the state, he will detail newly discovered facts about the Alliance City Band and its longtime director Emil Rinkendorf.

Registration is required to attend at rodmanlibrary.com.

The deep dive into Alliance’s musical past is a perfect opening act to the July 4 concert when Rubin, a Canton native now living in New York City, will portray Rinkendorf, who guided the Alliance City Band between 1917 and 1940 – considered the “golden era” of the iconic musical group that provided entertainment in the Carnation City from 1859 to 1992.

On Independence Day, Rubin will bring the Alliance City Band alive again as part of Alliance’s America 250 festivities inside Silver Park at 8 p.m., prior to the city’s annual fireworks display.

Presented by the Alliance Historical Society, Alliance Parks Department, and American Musical Productions, the concert will reenact a performance by the band from July 4, 1926, when Alliance was marking 150 years of freedom.

Rubin, a musicologist with American Musical Productions, will direct a period-authentic 26-piece wind band, attired in period uniform, in a 75-minute free concert based on a recently discovered program from that 1926 performance, which was held in Miller Pavilion with the audience sitting on the hillside.

The July 4 concert will feature many beloved band classics as well as a march written by Rinkendorf.

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