Sounds of Summer Series

Sovereign Brass – You Can’t Be Serious?
Monday, June 22, 2009 7:00 PM

Can the merry mirth-makers of our Sounds of Summer series stifle themselves long enough to do a full recital of serious classical music?

Can music from the Classical, Renaissance, Baroque and Romantic eras be played with a straight face by a group of musicians who love to clown around? We made them a bet that “You Can’t Be Serious!”

The Orlando Bolshoi Theatre Violinists Ensemble
Monday, July 6, 2009 7:00 PM

Olga Feroni • Joni Hanze-Bjella • Julia Gessinger • Olga Kolpakova • Linda Van Buren • Shelley Mathews • Jennie Rudberg • Dina Fedosenko • Oxana Harlamova (piano)

In the tradition of the famous Moscow ensemble, this all-female group of eight violinists performs music from the Baroque through the 20th Century.

Handel: Passacaglia
Telemann: Concerto for four violins in G major
Kreisler: Variations on a Theme of Corelli
Tchaikovsky: Adagio
Tchaikovsky: Valse
Shostakovich: Romance from Gadfly
De Falla: Danse Espagnole

Dubossarsky: Fantazia Italiana
Strauss: Weiner Blut
Strauss: Annen Polka
Dvorak: Slavonic Dance op.72 #2
Joplin: Paragon Rag
Dubossarsky: Serenade
Gade: Tango Jealousy
Rodgers: Blue Room
Frolov: Divertimento

Redwing Blackbird Ragtime Band
Monday, July 20, 2009 7:00 PM

Mark Goldberg, directorAudiences will delight in this program of original “turn of the century” Ragtime Band arrangements including Rags, Waltzes, Marches, Gallops – a là Scott Joplin – Set in the 1920’s

Diversimento
Monday, August 3, 2009 7:00 PM

Joni Hanze-Bjella / Thomas Macklin / Brian SmithersStart with the classics of George Gershwin and Astor Piazzolla…
Mix in the movie scores of John Williams, Ennio Morricone and Mark O’Connor…
Sprinkle in some music by jazz greats Chuck Mangione and Gerry Mulligan…
Finish off with a splash of original music by the performers themselves, and you have a recipe that’s sure to satisfy the musical tastes of everyone.

Included on the program are:

Mangione: Soft / Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
O’Connor: Brave Wolfe from the movie, “Liberty”
Williams: Escapades from the movie “Catch Me if You Can”
Hanze-Bjella, Smithers & Macklin: Coffee House Blues (original composition)
Smithers & Macklin: The Calm After the Storm (original composition)

Double Reed Heaven
Monday, August 17, 2009 7:00 PM

Diane Bishop, Julie Fox, Ted Shistle, David Schillhammer, bassoons
Jamie Strefeler, Sherwood Hawkins, Christopher Wilkins, oboes
Keiko Andrews, piano/harpsichord

Poulenc: Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon
Saint Saëns:Sonata for bassoon and piano
Bozza:Divertissements for three bassoons
Beethoven: Trio in C Major, op. 87 for two oboes and English horn
Mozart:Kyrie from Requiem, K. 626
Morricone: Gabriel’s Oboe from the movie “The Mission”