Concert Program:

1. Mozart, Overture to Idomeneo
2. Wagner, Die Meistersinger Overture
3. Reineke, Flute Concerto
4. Wagner, Trauersinfonieie
5. Bartók, Romanian Folk Dances
6. Sibelius, Andante Festivo
7. Saint Saëns, Bacchanale
8. De Falla, Ritual Fire Dance
9. De Falla, Suite #2 Three Cornered Hat

Conductor:

Gregory Burton

Time:

Saturday, February 11th Concert is at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 12th Concert is at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday,  February 11th Concert

The Trinity Anglican Church
79 Victoria Street, Aurora

 
Sunday, February 12th Concert

The Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts

10268 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill

the Flute Concerto  of Carl Reineke is romantic and robust in spirit. The piece offers scope for virtuoso flute playing, colorful orchestration, and beautiful melodies.

Die Meistersinger Overture is the prelude to Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnburg- it is sonorous and emotionally heartening prelude introducing the principal themes of the opera - the climax combines the various themes together in a display of contrapuntal ingenuity worthy of Bach.

Wagner's Trauersymphonie of- the full title being Funeral Music on Themes from Euryanthe by Carl Maria von Weber was composed as a patriotic funer al march to accompany the return of composer Carl Maria von Weber’s remains to Germany 18 years after his death and burial in London. It based this piece on themes from Weber’s opera Euryanthe.

Rominian Folk Dances by Béla Bartók pays tribute to original peasant melodies -- exotic in their modalities and full of rhythmic surprises.

Manuel de Falla's Ritual Fire Danse taken from the work, El Amor Brujo, a piece for orchestra and mezo soprano captures the exotic sight of a gypsy dancing furiously around a campfire in the dead of night as she conjures and shuns disquieted spirits.

Suite No. 2  taken from the ballet The Three Cornered Hat starts with a sweet piece based on fragments of Spanish folk tunes. It is followed by a fiery number in flamenco style concluding with a dazzling climax.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's  Overture to Idomeneo is the overture to his opera of the same name. The Overture is a  concert favorite made up of the  charming melodies.

Andante Festivo by Sibelius - inspired by nature is one of broad chords and hushed solemnity - considered solace to the world ravished by the second world war.