Program Notes Podium Musicians - Spring Concert
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Des Moines Community Orchestra
Spring
Concert
Our Spring Concert concludes our concert
season. Music Director and Conductor, Carl Johnson,
will lead the orchestra as we perform music that will stir your spirit!
As always, FREE admission makes it possible for everyone to
experience live classical music performances regardless of financial
resources.
May 9, 2010, Sunday
Concert begins at 2:00 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium.
Pre-concert talk begins at 1:00 p.m. at Sheslow.
Sheslow is one block north of University Avenue,
just west
of 25th Street, and is attached to the Old Main building on the Drake
University campus.
Parking is available in the big lot bounded by 24th-25th Streets
(east-west) and Forest -Carpenter (north-south). Click here for a map to Sheslow.
Program: "Tapping Our Inner Soloists"
Final details are still developing, but the concert is shaping up as one
that will feature soloists and ensembles from within the orchestra.
Tentative plans include the following:
 | Octoot by P.D.Q. Bach [woodwinds] |
 | Canzon duodecimi toni by Giovanni Gabrieli [brass] |
 | 5 Variants on Dives and Lazarus by Ralph Vaughan Williams [strings and
harp] |
 | Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin [full orchestra and solo piano] |
 | Romance by Sir Edward Elgar [strings, woodwinds, some brass, and solo
bassoon] |
 | Peace by John Golland [strings, woodwinds, harp, and solo euphonium] |
 | Trumpet Concerto in Eb, third movement [strings, some woodwind, some
brass, and solo trumpet] |
 | There is likely to be a percussion feature also, but final selection is
pending. |
(click here for program notes)
(click here for
an invitation letter)
(click here for a list of the musicians
performing this concert.)

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