Broome Street Band Wind Ensemble delights with final 2025 summer concert performance!
- Sharon E. Siegel
- Jul 29
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 30
By Sharon E. Siegel
Attached are four video clips of the 7/28/25 performance. For whatever reason, the video was filmed continuously but made four split clips of the content as it saved. Below are the four clips created to show this entire awesome concert!
A story and photo gallery follow.
Video 1 of 4 https://youtu.be/Kx0Wdl_HbhE
Video 2 of 4 https://youtu.be/Z-ct7bR6rDI
Video 3 of 4 https://youtu.be/umekSEkb-dU
Video 4 of 4 https://youtu.be/vVF1HVBK2_g
PORT JERVIS, NY – Port Jervis’ Broome Street Band might be from a small community, but its musicians (of all ages) and diverse musical performances are far from small in skill. If one closed their eyes, in fact, and simply listened, it would have been easy to place oneself as an audience member in a world-famous musical group concert during this week’s and prior BSB concerts.
Broome Street Band is comprised of all-volunteer dedicated local musicians, youth to senior, and was formed grassroots in our community decades ago. Its members continue to devote countless time and talent to community causes, events, and performances such as the July 28th Wind Ensemble Concert, year-after-year, decade-after-decade.
Summer concerts have delighted concert-goers every summer – this summer included, and always at no charge to its audiences. The most recent concert took place on July 28th at Drew Methodist Church, moved from Riverside Park to the air-conditioned comfort of the church due to extreme heat.
In addition to the concert, memorial scholarships (Henry F. Ranich & Walter & Mary Hughes Scholarships) were awarded to graduating senior members of the band during this week’s event. This year both awards went to the band’s one graduating musician, Bradley Riehl. Riehl was noted as having been a member of the Broome Street Band for more than seven years. While his college major is not in music, he remains involved in and continuing as a skilled musician at college and with the Broome Street Band.
Bradley Riehl (like several others in the band) performed solos in this week’s concert, including a piano solo that was truly, as were other band members’ solos throughout this event, ‘music to the ears.’
This last Summer of 2025 Concert included songs that were diverse, stirring, and included, in particular, a final song that had been transferred in 2023 by PJSD music teacher and Broome Street Band member Seth Riehl from a historic March format to instrumental sheet music. That 1873 March, incredibly, was written by world-famous composer German-born Joseph Kaspar (Caspar) Raff and dedicated to our own Port Jervis Fire Department Past Chief, Austrian-born Leopold Fuerth. Fuerth served as the ninth PJFD Chief (1870-1873).
(You can hear this last song (Fireman's March) as performed by Broome Street, last song on Clip 4 video attached.)
Again, if one were to close one’s eyes and just listen, this performance would be easy to imagine as taking place in a famous concert venue and performed by truly professional, top-notch performers, as it was in Port Jervis this week!
NOTE: If you haven’t attended a Broome Street Band Marching Band, Brassanova, Small Ensemble, or Wind Ensemble Concert or seen the marching band in a parade, you’ve been missing a lot. Why not mark your calendar for their next announced event, PJ’s Fall Foliage Festival on September 28, in downtown Port Jervis, NY, or any other event you may hear of featuring this hometown talented band? You won’t be disappointed, for sure!
