P.O. Box 2331, Walnut Creek, CA 94595-0331

FOR RELEASE

Contact:
- Duane Carroll
(925) 831-1954
dcarroll22@sbcglobal.net
www.CCWindSymphony.org

- Bob Rezak
(925) 680-7089
rrrezak@sbcglobal.net

March 24 Concert in Walnut Creek

Contra Costa Wind Symphony Will Play
Music Inspired by Works of Famous Authors

Maestro Duane Carroll and the Contra Costa Wind Symphony will salute renowned authors, including Mark Twain and Shakespeare, on March 24 in a concert of music inspired by their timeless classic stories.

The concert will feature guest artist Denis Winter, a nationally recognized euphonium soloist and resident of Orinda. He will play Ennio Morricone’s “Gabriel’s Oboe” from the film version of “The Mission” by Robert Bolt. Winter recently retired as professor of low brass in the music department at the University of Central Arkansas. He was also the principal trombonist with the Little Rock Wind Symphony.

The program will begin at 3 p.m. in the Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic Drive, where tickets ($6 – $22) are on sale—(925) 943-7469 www.lesherartscenter.org.

Carroll will lead the musicians in selections by Johan de Meij based on Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s story “The Wind in the Willows” and Franco Cesarini’s “Tom Sawyer Suite,” based on Mark Twain’s story of the adventures of Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Becky Thatcher.

Shakespeare will be represented in “Suite Française,” written by Guy Woolfenden for a Royal Shakespeare Company production of “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” and music by Lars-Erik Larsson for a Swedish production of “The Winter’s Tale.”

Other selections include Søren Hyldgaard’s “Hans Christian Andersen Suite” (with musical references to “The Little Match Girl” and the author’s other characters and adventures) and dances from Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story.”

 

If You Go

WHAT: Contra Costa Wind Symphony performs music inspired by timeless stories by famous authors
WHEN: 3 p.m., March 24
WHERE: Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek
RUNNING TIME: 1 hour, 30 minutes, including one intermission
TICKETS: $6 – $22, (925) 943-7469 (www.lesherartscenter.org)

 

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