VISAKHAPATNAM: As a part of the Navy Day celebrations, the Eastern Naval Command’s Naval Band comprising 30 skilled musician-sailors will perform at the City Central Park on Friday from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. The programme is aimed at acquainting the music-loving public of the city with the professional accomplishment of the personnel of the band.
The performance will include popular patriotic songs, besides rendering of evergreen of Hindi, Telugu and English songs, according to an ENC release.
The ENC Band was commissioned as the Naval Band of INS Circars in the early 1950s with 26 men. The band has emerged as a 50-piece symphonic band.
Apart from enthralling the audience at Visakhapatnam and in all the major cities of the country, it has also enchanted audience overseas with its performances. Under the baton of Band Director Lieutenant Commander Satish K Champion the ensemble relates closely to the mass audience of the country with a wide ranging repertoire and incorporating the different forms of music of the area of performance.
