La Musique de la France – Oooh La La!
Sunday, March 8 2015, 7:30 p.m.
Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek CA
Dr. Duane A. Carroll, Music Director
Ben Loomer, Assistant Conductor
French composers were lucky: they lived in France. Other composers were lucky too. They visited Paris and came away inspired to give us some wonderful musical impressions of their stay there.
We mustn’t forget the lovely street songs of Paris: “Under Paris Skies,” “Moulin Rouge,” “C’est Si Bon,” “The Falling Leaves,” “La Vie en Rose.”
Listen to this music and reminisce about the aromas, the sidewalk cafés, the wine, the theater, the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame — or daydream about finally visiting Paris!
French composers were lucky: they lived in France. Other composers were lucky too. They visited Paris and came away inspired to give us some wonderful musical impressions of their stay there.
We mustn’t forget the lovely street songs of Paris: “Under Paris Skies,” “Moulin Rouge,” “C’est Si Bon,” “The Falling Leaves,” “La Vie en Rose.”
Listen to this music and reminisce about the aromas, the sidewalk cafés, the wine, the theater, the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame — or daydream about finally visiting Paris!
Fanfare pour précéder La Péri – Paul Ducas
Petite Suite – Claude Debussy arr. Y. Kimura
Pavane pour une Infante Défunte – Maurice Ravel arr. Johan de Meij
French Impressions – Guy Woolfenden
Paris Sketches – Martin Ellerby
Paris Montmartre – arr. Toshio Mashima
Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld – Jacques Offenbach arr. Lawrence Odom