The Glenn Miller Orchestra

Don’t miss the Glenn Miller Orchestra swinging at SOPAC! Experience the live energy of the big band era upheld by an 18-piece ensemble of today’s leading soloists and arrangers. Performing hits like “Chattanooga Choo-Choo” and “Moonlight Serenade,” hidden gems like “The White Cliffs of Dover,” “Rainbow Rhapsody,” “Everybody Loves My Baby,” and “That’s Sabotage,” and many more Miller-style tunes, this high-octane outfit shares lush, engaging renditions of timeless music. Experience a hard-swinging performance that will keep you snapping and tapping through the evening. 

The Glenn Miller Orchestra

Led by Music Director Erik Stabnau, The Glenn Miller Orchestra comprises five saxophone players, four trumpeters, four trombonists, and a three-piece rhythm section. Additionally, two vocalists perform individually and as part of The Moonlight Serenaders® vocal group. The orchestra has performed in all 50 states, and across Europe, Australia, Iceland, New Zealand, Guam, the Philippines, and South and Central America. The orchestra has toured Japan annually since 1964. 

Glenn Miller and His Orchestra made a big impact right before and during the war. And it had more hit records in one year than anybody in the history of the recording industry. In fact, its recording of Chattanooga Choo-Choo earned the first Gold Record ever awarded to a performing artist. Additional Gold Record recordings include “In the Digital Mood” and “In The Christmas Mood,” Volume I & II. 

In the big band era, any dance band “worth its salt” had a distinctive theme song — a musical signature with which they signed on and signed off at their engagements and radio broadcasts. The theme of Glenn Miller and His Orchestra was “Moonlight Serenade,” which continues to be the signature tune of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Today, it is considered a standard in the field of popular music with its popularity as an instrumental continuing undiminished through the years.