We’ll be starting off our 2024-2025 season “Musical Mastery” with a program of musical delights including a saxophone feature.
- Snapshots (IV. To Pull Out All the Stops) by Franklin D. Hansen was originally written for sax quartet.
- Percy Grainger’s Hill-Song No. 2 will transport you to wind-swept Scottish moors with wild patches of heath and peat bogs.
- Frank Ticheli’s Over the Moon takes you on a musical journey over the moon and back to Earth again.
- Five To Go by Jack Bullock is reminiscent of the big band era of American music.
- Barnum & Bailey’s Favorite written by Karl King, often considered the grand-daddy of circus marches, celebrates “The Greatest Show on Earth”.
- Polka and Fugue (from the opera “Schwanda, the Bagpiper”) by Jaromir Weinberger is based off of a Czech folk tale wherein a master bagpiper melts the ice queen’s heart with his playing.
- Irish Tune from County Derry is one of Percy Grainger’s most popular and most recognizable pieces.
- Shepherd’s Hey also by Percy Grainger is a brisk and technically demanding dance.
- Richard Rodger’s Sound of Music will include a number of tunes where you know the melodies (and possibly the words).
The show starts at 7 p.m. on October 12, 2024, at Corbet Theatre in Centralia. $12 general admission. Students free with paying adult.