Spring 2012 Concert

GREAT MUSIC INSPIRED BY GREAT AUTHORS

Duane Carroll, Conductor

 

The Wind in the Willows………………………………….……Johan de Meij  
Based on the children’s story of the same name by Kenneth Grahame
I. The River
II. Ratty and Mole
III. Mister Toad
IV. The Return of Ulysses


Gabriel’s Oboe (The Mission)…….………….………….…Ennio Morriconi
Written for the film version of The Mission by Robert Bolt
Denis Winter, Euphonium


Tom Sawyer Suite: Four Scenes from Mark Twain, Op. 27...Franco Cesarini    
I.    Tom Sawyer
II.   Huckleberry Finn

Featuring Kendl Winter, Banjo
III.  Becky Thatcher
IV. Happy Ending


Four Dances from West Side Story ……Leonard Bernstein, arr. Ian Polster  

I.    Scherzo
II.   Mambo
III. Cha-cha
IV. Cool (Fugue)

 

INTERMISSION

 

Suite Française  (for Woodwind Octet) …….………….…Guy Woolfenden
Written for a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Love’s Labour’s Lost
I.   Pastorale
II.  Valse
III. Scène et Marche


En Vintersaga  (A Winter’s Tale)…Lars-Erik Larsson/Arr. Jerker Johansson  

Incidental music for a Swedish production of  Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
Ben Loomer, Conductor
I. Siciliana
II. Pastoral

Hans Christian Andersen Suite: Adventures for Wind Orchestra………
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Søren Hyldgaard, ed. Johan de Meij

I. Introduction: The Noble Poet
II. The Journeying Storyteller: Europe by Railway
The Train Station
Full Steam Ahead
III. The Little Match-Girl
IV. Constantinopel: A Poet’s Bazar
V.  The Tinderbox
The Soldier’s March
The Old Witch, the Giant Dogs “with Eyes Big as the Round Tower”

 

 

 

   
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