GREAT MUSIC INSPIRED BY GREAT AUTHORS

PROGRAM

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

Four Dances from West Side Story   ...........................................  Bernstein arr. Ian Polster
I.    Scherzo
II.   Mambo
III.  Cha-Cha
IV. Cool (Fugue)

INTERMISSION

Suite Francaise  for WW Octet (2 Fl, 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bssn)  ......................   Guy Woolfenden
Written for a Royal Shakespeare Company production of “Loves Labors Lost”
I.    Pastorale
II.  Valse
III. Scène et Marche

En Vintersaga  (The Winter's Tale)  ................... Lars-Erik Larsson/Arr. Jerker Johansson
Incidental music for a Swedish production of  Shakespeare’s “A Winters Tale.”
1. Siciliana
2. Pastoral
Ben Loomer, Conductor

Hans Christian Andersen Suite  ...................  Soren Hyldgaard/Ed. Johan de Meij
I. Introduction: The Noble Poet
II. The Journeying Storyteller: Europe by Railway
1.The Train Station
2. Full Steam Ahead
III. The Little Match Girl
IV. Constantinopel: A Poet’s Bazar
V.  The Tinder-Box
1. The Soldier’s March
2. The Old Witch, The Giant Dogs
”With Eyes Big As The Round Tower”

 

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