Dartmouth Wind SymphonyMax Culpepper, conductor Around the World in 80 Minuteswith special guests Friday, MAY 2 • 8 pm Click to download PROGRAM NOTES Take a whirlwind musical tour to an array of nations, including Ireland, France, Norway, Germany, Spain, Russia, Korea, Japan and Mexico, with exciting wind ensemble music. After Charles Ives' witty Variations on America, fly across the Atlantic to Ireland with the rollicking folk tune The Irish Washerwoman, and to France with Milhaud's carefree Provence from his Suite Française, an homage to the American soldiers who helped free his country from the Nazis. Listen to the Norwegian march Valdres, inspired by one of the most beautiful regions on Earth, and a wind transcription of Elsa's Procession from Wagner's opera Lohengrin. Zip from zesty Spanish dance music to a Russian Sailor's Dance. Then hop on a transport to Asia for Variations on a Korean Folk Song by John Barnes Chance, inspired by a song he learned during the Korean War; and Mourning Song from Three Japanese Dances, based on traditional Japanese music. Travel back to the western hemisphere to hear the well-known humorous Mexican song La Cucaracha, and finally to the U.S. for the spirited concert finale, Americans We, by the colorful bandsman Henry Fillmore.
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