Saturday September 26, 2009
7:30 pm Newport Performing Arts Center
Conductor: Adam Flatt
From Maestro Flatt:
Marking Mendelssohn’s bicentenary, we open our season with a concert featuring his magnificent “Reformation” Symphony, along with other great works that quote familiar anthems, songs, and hymns. Tonight we explore the power of melodies that lie in our collective memory as quoted by great English, American, and German composers.
I think there must be a place in the soul all made of tunes, of tunes of long ago. I know not what are the words.
But they sing in my soul of the things our fathers loved.–Charles Ives, from “The Things Our Fathers Loved”
| Jubel Overture | by Carl Maria von Weber
(1726-1826) |
| An Elegy to our Forefathers
Country Band March |
by Charles Ives
(1874-1954) |
| Fantasia on Greensleeves | by Ralph Vaughan Williams
(1872-1958) |
| Symphony No. 5 “Reformation” | by Felix Mendelssohn
(1809-1847) |
P E R F O R M A N C E H I S T O R Y : The Yaquina Orchestra (the previous name of the Newport Symphony Orchestra) performed Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Greensleeves in December of 1994. The other works on tonight’s program are being performed by the ensemble for the first time.
