Brass Band Northwest: The Unfortunate Traveler
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Remo Giazotto — Adagio in G minor for strings and organ (att. to Tomaso Albinoni)
Philip Wilby — Pilgrim's Progress
Giuseppe Verdi — La Forza del Destino
Imogen Holst — The Unfortunate Traveler
Leonard Bernstein — West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein – Candide (5:00)
Tomaso Albinoni – Adagio (4:00)
Philip Wilby – Pilgrim’s Progress (19:00)
Giuseppe Verdi – La Forza del Destino (7:30)
Imogen Holst – The Unfortunate Traveler (11:00)
Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story (10:00)
Brass Band Northwest opens our season with musical travelogues taken from great literature including Candide, Pilgrim's Progress, Romeo and Juliet, and The Unfortunate Traveller.
Pilgrim's Progress is a Christian allegory first published in 1678 and continuously in print ever since. Philip Wilby portrays the key moments of the story which are connected by short excerpts from the text.
Imogen Holst, daughter of Gustav Holst, wrote The Unfortunate Traveler when she was still in her teens. It is based on the picaresque novel of the same name by Thomas Nashe.
We complete our year of celebration of the centennial of Leonard Bernstein's birth with two of his most popular works: the overture to his opera, Candide, and his retelling of Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story.