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Fall Semester 2009
Our concert schedule is as follows:
Family Weekend, Saturday, October 3rd, 7:30 PM
March from Second Suite by Gustav Holst, arr for Brass Quintet
St. Paul's Suite for String Orchestra, mvts 3 and 4 (Holst)
Dvorak, Symphony No. 9, mvts 2 and 4
Orchestra concert, Saturday, December 5, 7:30 PM
Guest Artist: Findlay Cockrell, pianist
Program:
Morton Gould: Interplay for Orchestra and Piano
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 (from the New World)
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Wikipedia has a decent entry on the New World Symphony, and here is a more scholarly article for those wishing more information (you'll need to log into JSTOR):
The Evolution of Dvorak's Symphony "from the New World." (Musical Quaterly)
Wiki's article on Rhapsody in Blue is a little more extensive:
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REHEARSALS:
Tuesdays: often will be sectional rehearsals
Thursdays: full orchestra rehearsals
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Family Weekend Concert Soundfiles
Here is our Family Weekend Concert, October 3, 2009. The order is:
1) Holst Brass
2)
Holst St. Paul Suite (Strings), Mvts. 3 and 4.
3) Dvorak Largo
4) Dvorak Finale
The recording is rather hissy. I'm sure this this will be fixed for our December concert.
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Listening (on Naxos):
Rather than post a flash player as I've done in the past, you can now go to Naxos MusicOnline and access multiple recordings of the pieces.
The username and password are both "EarlhamPS." Just type "Dvorak New World Symphony" or "Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue" into the search path and then choose among the various recordings. This is a great new resource for us!
Morton Gould's Interplay is not available on Naxos, so here is a flash player. All four movements are here, just toggle to get to the next one.
Since my favorite performance of Rhapsody in Blue is that of Leonard Bernstein playing piano and also leading the NY Philharmonic, I'll post that here too: