[Blgspops] Concert Order for next week

Thu May 12 23:19:48 CDT 2016

  Here is the program as it currently sits (I'll be working on
formatting and etc before getting it printed):

	Billings Pops Orchestra 

	Spring Concert 

	May 19th, 2016 

	  1.   La Rejouissance (from The Royal Fireworks Music) by George F
Handel, arranged by Richard Meyer 

	John Baber Conductor 

	The Music for the Royal Fireworks is a wind band suite composed by
George Frideric Handel [1] for the fireworks in London [2]'s Green
Park [3] on 27 April 1749 to celebrate the end of the War of the
Austrian Succession [4]. The display was not as successful as the
music itself: the weather was rainy and in the middle of the show the
right pavilion [5] caught fire. La Rejouissance is a selection from
the work that has been used by the BBC to introduce Masterpiece
Theater broadcasts. 

	  2.   Finale - Symphony No. 2 in C by Peter Ilyich Tschaikowsky,
arranged by Sandra Dackow 

	Randy Grow Conductor 

	Tchaikovsky wrote much of the Little Russian Symphony during his
summer holiday at Kamenka in the Ukraine with his sister Aleksandra's
family, the Davydovs. The Davydov estate had become the composer's
favorite refuge. Alexandra had, in fact, encouraged the composer to
make Kamenka his second home. His affection for the estate bore fruit
in his using local songs in the symphony he was writing. He even once
wrote, in jest, that true credit for the Little Russian's finale
should have gone "to the real composer of the said work—Peter
Gerasimovich." Gerasimovich, the elderly butler in the Davydov
household, sang the folk-song "The Crane" to Tchaikovsky while the
composer was working on the symphony.  

	  3.   Downton Abbey – The Suite by John Lunn, arranged by Douglas
E. Wagner 

	Randy Grow Conductor 

	The highly popular television series has become the most-viewed
period drama in thirty years. The trials, triumphs, and tribulations
of the aristocratic Crawley family are intertwined with the colorful
lives of the live-in servant class. The equally colorful music is cast
in this medley featuring the series' familiar theme _Did I Make the
Most of Loving You?.___ 

	  4.   Russian Sailor’s Dance from the Ballet _The Red Poppy_ by
Reinhold Gleire, arranged by Andrew Balent 

	Randy Grow Conductor 

	The Red Poppy was created in 1927 as the first Soviet [6] ballet with
a modern revolutionary theme. Possibly the most famous dance from this
ballet is the Sailors Dance, sometimes referred to as the "Russian
Sailors Dance." It is this musical selection for which Glière is
perhaps best known. Gliere was recognized with a Doctor of Sciences
for his research in composition, and his attention to regional musical
styles. His pupils included Prokofiev and Khachaturian. 

	  5.   The Moldau by Bedrich Smetana, arranged by Ricard Meyer 

	John Baber Conductor 

	Let’s take a trip down the river Moldau, starting from two small
water springs, the Cold and Warm Vltava, we join the unification of
both streams into a single current, riding the course of the Vltava
through woods and meadows, through beautiful landscapes where we spy a
farmer's wedding being celebrated. Watching the round dance of the
mermaids in the night's moonline, then moving on, we see on the nearby
rocks the proud castles, palaces and ruins aloft. The Vltava now
swirls into the St John's Rapids; then it widens and flows toward the
capital city of Prague, past the beguiling Vyšehrad, and then
majestically vanishes into the distance, ending at the Labe (or Elbe,
in German). 

	High Plains Brass Introduced by Randy Grow 

	  6.   Florentiner March by Julius Fucik 

	Julius Fučík was a Czech composer and conductor of military bands.
He became a prolific composer, with over 400 marches, polkas, and
waltzes to his name. As most of his work was for military bands, he is
sometimes known as the "Bohemian Sousa". Today his marches are still
played as patriotic music in the Czech Republic. His worldwide
reputation rests primarily on two works: "The Florentiner March"
popular throughout much of Europe and the "Entrance of the Gladiators"
(Vjezd gladiátorů), which is universally recognized, often under the
title "Thunder and Blazes", as one of the most popular theme tunes for
circus clowns. 

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	  7.   Glory, Look Away arranged by Luther Henderson 

	This is a medley of “Dixie” and “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
arranged by Luther Henderson. 

	  8.   Gallito by Santigo Lope, arranged by Roy Weger 

	This is a pasodoble, which is is a lively style of dance to the duple
meter march-like PASODOBLE music. It is modelled after the sound,
drama, and movement of the Spanish and Portuguese bullfight. The
traditional couple's dance was originated in France and then adopted
in Spain and Portugal.  

	  9.   Irish Tune from County Derry by Percy Grainger 

	 Australian [7] composer Percy Grainger [8] wrote numerous settings,
which he called "Irish Tune from County Derry", in his _British
Folk-Music Settings_. 

	  10.   Canzona Bergamasca by Samuel Scheidt 

	This is a Renaissance composition from the early 1600s. A canzona is
an intensely polyphonic form where each musical line imitates and
echoes one another. Brass arrangements of this type are extremely
popular, however, this piece was originally composed for strings.  

	  11.   That’s A Plenty by Lew Pollack 

	"THAT'S A PLENTY" is a 1914 ragtime piano piece composed by Lew
Pollack [9]. Lyrics by Ray Gilbert [10] (born 1912) were added decades
later. A number of popular vocal versions have been recorded, but the
tune remains more performed as an instrumental selection. 

	Billings Pops Orchestra 

	  12.   Rhosymedre by Ralph Vaughan Williams, arranged by Arnold
Foster 

	John Baber Conductor 

	Rhosymedre is the name of a hymn tune written by the 19th-century
Welsh [11] priest John David Edwards [12]. Edwards named the tune
after the village of Rhosymedre [13] in the County Borough of Wrexham
[14], Wales [15], where he was the vicar from 1843 until his death in
1885. The tune has been published and sung to a variety of words. The
tune was used by Ralph Vaughan Williams [16] as the basis of the
second movement of his organ [17] composition "Three Preludes on Welsh
Hymn Tunes". This is probably best known as an orchestral arrangement
by Arnold Foster published in 1938. 

	  13.   Rock and Roll Classics arranged by Jack Bullock 

	John Baber Conductor 

	For our final number, let’s enjoy some good old Rock and Roll. This
is a medley of ‘(We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock’, ‘The
Lion Sleeps Tonight’, ‘Blueberry Hill’, ‘Hold Me, Thrill Me,
Kiss Me’, and Wipe Out!’ 

 More info in next message

 Jacquie
 President

 

Links:
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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Park
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Austrian_Succession
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavilion
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_people
[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Grainger
[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Pollack
[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Gilbert
[11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales
[12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_David_Edwards
[13] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhosymedre
[14] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Borough_of_Wrexham
[15] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales
[16] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams
[17] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_%28music%29

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