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Holiday Pops 2018 Program Notes – Christmas ClassicsThe Clinton Symphony will be presenting their ‘Music of the Holidays’ concert on Saturday, December 8, 7:30 pm at Clinton High School. As part of the concert, we’ll be enjoying our favorite classic music of the season: Sleigh Ride, the Christmas Song, and a rousing sing-along to A Christmas Festival. Enjoy the following program notes about these pieces, and we’ll see you Saturday! Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) got the idea for the theme of Sleigh Ride as he dug in his Woodbury, Connecticut, yard for ....[click to read more…]
Holiday Pops 2018 Program Notes – All That BrassOpening our Clinton Symphony “Music of the Holidays” concert (7:30 pm, Saturday December 8 at Clinton High School) will be the delightful Canzon per Sonar Septimi Toni a 8 by Giovanni Gabrieli played by the brass section. Later in the concert, we will hear an arrangement of traditional Christmas carols, A Canadian Brass Christmas. Please enjoy these program notes, and plan to join us on Saturday evening. Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612) was born in Venice, one of five children. While not much is known about ....[click to read more…]
Holiday Pops 2018 Program Notes – From the ScreenThe Clinton Symphony’s Holiday Pops concert is coming up this Saturday, December 8, 7:30 pm at Clinton High School. Today’s pieces come from the screen….big and small. Learn about the Charlie Brown Christmas, which songs are in our Christmas Movies medley, and the story behind White Christmas. By the early 1960s, Charles M. Schulz’s comic strip Peanuts had become a sensation worldwide. Television producer Lee Mendelson acknowledged the strip’s cultural impression and produced a documentary on the subject, ....[click to read more…]
Holiday Pops 2018 Program Notes – Symphonic FavoritesThe Clinton Symphony’s Holiday Pops concert is coming up this Saturday, December 8, 7:30 pm at Clinton High School. This week I’ll be posting the program notes in groups. Today we have some of our symphonic favorites: Concerto Grosso, Op.6 No. 8 – Corelli; A Mad Russian’s Christmas – Tchaikovsky, arr. Bob Phillips; and Trepak (from “Nutcracker Suite”) – Tchaikovsky. Arcangelo Corelli (1653- 1713) was an imminent Italian violinist and composer known chiefly for his influence on the development of violin style ....[click to read more…]
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