Egyptian queens, warrior khans, long-reigning monarchs, and animated princesses all get their due with MAFB’s fall concert featuring Amparo Edo Biol’s Cleopatra, Julie Giroux’s Khan, Benjamin Britten’s “Five Courtly Dances” from Gloriana, Joe Hisaishi’s score to Princess Mononoke, Chad “Sir Wick” Hughes’ Lazarus: A Peasant’s Song, and Omar Thomas’ A Mother of a Revolution!, which was composed in honor of Marsha P. Johnson, the queen mother and first brickthrower of the Stonewall Riots.

The band will be performing the following pieces.

Amparo Edo Biol: Cleopatra
Arthur Bliss: Welcome the Queen
Benjamin Britten: “Five Courtly Dances” from Gloriana
Julie Giroux: Khan
Ralph Raymond Hays: And they lived… you know…
Joe Hisaishi: Princess Mononoke
Chad “Sir Wick” Hughes: Lazarus: A Peasant’s Song
Queen Lili’uokalani: Selected Works
John Philip Sousa: Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
Omar Thomas: A Mother of a Revolution