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Tricks of time

The concert features songs with novel time signatures, unique rhythms, light-hearted melodies and even a gimmick or two.

Richey Community Orchestra concludes its 2003-2004 season on Sunday with a tribute to tunes with something in common: their uncommonness.

The concert, dubbed "It's About Time," features songs with novel time signatures, unique rhythms, light-hearted melodies and even a gimmick or two.

The most unusual may be Leroy Anderson's The Typewriter, which features a manual typewriter as the solo "instrument."

Rushing time will be guest trumpeter Charley Raymond, who will do his own arrangement of the lightning-fast Flight of the Bumble Bee.

And keeping time will be guest drummer Eddie Graham, who will do the tune that made Benny Goodman drummer Gene Krupa a household name, Sing, Sing, Sing.

Raymond will also be featured as the orchestra does Carnival of Venice, And the Angels Sing and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.

Conductor Deidre Reigel will lead the musicians in an updated version of Beethoven's 5th Symphony theme, called A Fifth of Beethoven, and a medley of jazz tunes that includes Take Five, The Swingin' Shepherd Blues, It Don't Mean a Thing.

The orchestra includes both amateur and professional musicians and is the county's only symphony orchestra. The associate conductor is Bob Boyd.

WHAT: Richey Community Orchestra's "It's About Time"

WHERE: Center for the Arts at River Ridge, 11646 Town Center Road, New Port Richey

WHEN: 3 p.m. Sunday

TICKETS: $10, open seating. Call Denise Isaacson at 919-3866. Box office is at 6827 Amberjack Lane, Hudson (west of U.S. 19 just north of Beacon Woods Drive).

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