Concert Band Presents "Pictures at a Musical Exhibition" Nov. 22

Story posted November 16, 2009

The Bowdoin College Concert Band will present "Pictures at a Musical Exhibition" for its annual fall concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, November 22, 2009, in Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall. The concert is open to the public and admission is free.

"Pictures at a Musical Exhibition" will be a multimedia presentation featuring compositions that pertain to particular artists and art works/styles.

The program will include Robert Sheldon's "Art in the Park," a four-movement work based on four art styles and paintings that are representative of those styles. Cubism is represented by Gino Severini's "Le Cycliste," aquarelle by John Singer Sargent's "The Shadowed Stream," sgafitto by Willem de Kooning's "Excavation," and chiaroscuro by Raphael's "Transfiguration."

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A design by Victor Hartmann for the Great Gate of Kiev.

The program will also include Norman Dello Joio's "Scenes from The Louvre," William Hill's "A Norman Rockwell Suite," selections from Modeste Moussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" (The Hut of Baba Yaga and The Great Gate of Kiev), Leroy Anderson's "Ticonderoga March," Bedrich Smetana's "Dance of the Comedians," David Delle Cese's "Inglesina: The Little English Girl," and Fred Allen's "A Thanksgiving Hymn."

The Bowdoin College Concert Band (BCCB), directed by John P. Morneau, is a 40-member ensemble, primarily comprising Bowdoin students, with the addition of local community musicians. Much in the style of a wind ensemble, the BCCB performs a broad range of standard (and sometimes not-so-standard) music from the wind band repertoire.

For more information call the Department of Music at 798-4141.

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