Dexter Community Band Hosts Free Spring Concert May 18

The Dexter Community Band takes a swing at summer with a free concert that will feature Casey at the Bat and Principal Trumpet Richard Savitski performing a very original version of George Gershwin’s Summertime. The also marks the return of Stephen West, professor of music and Chair of the Department of Voice & Opera at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, as a performer with the band. West, a bass-baritone who has performed in operas around the world, will narrate Ernest Thayer’s famous 1888 poem Casey at the Bat.