United Nations Day (10/24/10)

Sunday, October 24, 2010
3:00 PM

Fireman Performing Arts Center,Tabor Academy
235 Front St., Marion, MA

Tickets $10 (Students $5, Children 12 and under are free)

Join us as we kick off our 49th Concert Season with a celebration of the 65th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. Offering music from many different lands, we represent France with Darius Milhaud's "Suite FranÃ§aise." This is a five movement piece where the movements are named after French Provinces, the very ones in which the American and Allied armies fought together with the French underground of the liberation of France: Normandy, Brittany, Ile-de-France (of which Paris is the center), Alsace-Lorraine, and Provence (Milhaud's birthplace). "Valdres" (a Norwegian march), "March of the Belgian Paratroopers"provide a showcase for the variety of marches across the globe. John Barnes Chance's "Variations on a Korean Folk Song" and Willam McCauley's "Canadian Folk Song Fantasy" represent the Asian and North American corners of the world.

Our special guest trumpet soloist is MUC Robert Couto. MUC Couto is a native of New Bedford, MA, a former Tri-County Music Association Scholarship recipient and a current member of the United States Navy Band in Washington DC. He will be performing Alexander Arutiunian's "Concerto for Trumpet"

Milhaud- Suite Française
Leemans- March of the Belgian Paratroopers
Chance- Variations on a Korean Folk Song
Hanssen- Valdres March
Arutiunian- Concerto for Trumpet
McCauley- Canadian Folk Song Fantasy
Lowden- Armed Forces Salute

Please don't forget about our Special Benefit Concert for the
Tri-County Music Association's Scholarship Fund!

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