Explored was the influence of art on music through a tour of exhibitions and museums with the Contra Costa Wind Symphony as your docent and tour guide.  

 

Featuring
Grant Larson, saxophone
Tom Hemphill, vibraphone
​Joan Cifarelli, piano
​Brad Howell, string bass

Performed Sunday, March 12, 2023 - 2:00 p.m.
Lesher Center For The Arts
Walnut Creek CA

 

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 PROGRAM

Paintings
     I. Prelude
     II. The Sultan of Morocco
​     III. Birds in Landscape
     IV. Catherine the Great
     V. A Flemish Countryside
William Owens

Prelude to
The Afternoon of a Faun
Claude Debussy / trans. M. Hindsley
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Pictures at an Exhibition
     1. Promenade
     2. The Old Castle
     3. Tuileries (Children Quarreling at Play)
     4. Bydlo
     5. Ballet of the Unhatched Chickens
     6. The Market Place at Limoges
     7 a. Catacombs
     7 b. Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortua
     8. Hut of the Baba-Yaga
     9. The Great Gate of Kiev
Modest Mussorgsky / trans. E. Leidzen

*** Intermission ***

Scenes from "The Louvre"
     I. The Portals
     II. Children's Gallery
     III. The Kings of France
     IV. The Nativity Paintings
     V. Finale
Norman Dello Joio

Escapades
Featuring:
​Grant Larson, alto saxophone
​Tom Hemphill, vibraphone
​Joan Cifarelli, piano
​Brad Howell, string bass
​     1. Closing In
     2. Reflections
     3. Joy Ride
John Williams

 

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