2008-2009 Classical Detours
Fridays at 6:30pm
$30 Reserved, limited availability
$20 General Admission
No passport required, no baggage to check.
Classical Detours returns to Friday nights,
which means you begin your weekend with
a pre-concert happy hour followed by the
SLSO taking you on an exciting, one-hour
musical tour of places far and near. Avoid
the rush hour on the most enjoyable detour
you’ll ever take.
Presented in partnership with The Boeing Company.
Doors open at 5:30pm with complimentary beer sampling and happy-hour pricing on other drinks and appetizers.
English Pomp (& Circumstance)
- Friday, October 3, 2008 at 6:30pm
David Robertson, conductor
Heidi Harris, violin
WALTON Crown Imperial (Coronation March)
BAX Tintagel
DELIUS arr. Beecham The Walk to the Paradise Garden from "A Village Romeo and Juliet"
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending
ELGAR Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
You don't need your cap and gown to enjoy
Pomp and Circumstance. You don't even
need to know that it's English, or that it was
written by Sir Edward Elgar. "England swings
like a pendulum do," sang Roger Miller. You'll
find out how in this British Invasion.
Robertson
Transylvanian Halloween
- Friday, October 31, 2008 at 6:30pm
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
MOZART arr. Busoni Don Giovanni Overture
BARTÓK Dances of Transylvania
MUSSORGSKY orch. Rimsky-Korsakov Night on Bald Mountain
SAINT-SAËNS Danse macabre
GRIEG In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt
BERLIOZ Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath from Symphonie fantastique
Audio Clip - Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King (:59)
It’s your SLSO’s way of saying "Boo!" musically. You probably know best through movies the ways in which music can create suspense, lengthen ghostly shadows, and make you leap out of your seat. You’ll get all of this and more in this Transylvanian night—if you dare!
McGegan
Discover America
- Friday, December 12, 2008 at 6:30pm
David Robertson, conductor
Carolyn Banham, english horn
Thomas Drake, Trumpet
JOHN WILLIAMS The Cowboys Overture
BERNSTEIN Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
The Great Lover
Lonely Town: Pas de deux
Times Square: 1944
COPLAND Quiet City
RODGERS Carousel Waltz
BERNSTEIN Candide Overture
Audio Clip - Candide Overture (1:57)
American music encompasses the cities and towns, the urban streets and the open countryside, the intimate longings and the extravagant ambitions of a diverse people. In a sense, American composers have always been discovering America and finding new musical definitions of who and what we are.
Robertson
Latin American Carnival
- Friday, January 30, 2009 at 6:30pm
David Robertson, conductor
Rhythm is as fine a way of defining a place
and a people as history, language or landscape.
To imagine Latin America is to hear
rhythms, wonderful variations of beat and
pulsation, and to feel lives moving with
distinctive grace. The SLSO makes Latin
rhythms sing in this Classical Detour.
Robertson
Middle East Crossroads
- Friday, March 20, 2009 at 6:30pm
David Robertson, conductor
The Middle East is where peoples of the
world—with disparate beliefs, customs,
religions, and histories—have converged for
most of human time. This passionate mingling
of cultures, these crossroads of hopes
and dreams are the source materials for the
finale to this season’s Classical Detours.
Robertson