Summer Concert Series 2004 - June 18

Suzanne Magassy

Fanfare for the Common Man Aaron Copland
Arr. Edward Nassor
Serenade
from Swan Song
Franz Schubert
Ring o' Bells (1984) John Gordon
American Folk Style
Lord of the Dance

House of the Rising Sun



Shaker hymn
Arr. Laura Hewitt Whipple
Combining the New Orleans original with the popular style arrangement by Alan Price in the '60s for 'The Animals'

Peal for Carillon (2000) Larry Sitsky
Classic Baroque
II. Andante
from Concerto for Two Mandolins

I have lost my Euridice
from Orfeo and Euridice


Antonio Vivaldi


Christophe Gluck
A Somber Pavan Ronald Barnes
Classic Pops
Wind beneath my Wings

Help me make it through the night

Henry and Silbar

Kris Kristopherson
Couleurs
from Quattuor for Carillon (1997)
Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Maranoa Lullaby Australian Aboriginal
My Way Revaux, Francois and Thibaut


Notes

John Gordon was Head Carillonneur at Sydney and Canberra for many decades, a College Professor of Music, and composed a multitude of pieces for the instrument.

Larry Sitsky is Head of Composition in the Music Department at the Australian National University Canberra. Peal was written for Magassy to perform at Sitsky's son's wedding at the National Carillon, Canberra.

A Somber Pavan was written in memory of Nellie Lee Bok, grand-daughter of Edward Bok, who financed the building of Historic Bok Sanctuary at Lake Wales in Florida, including the grand carillon in the two-hundred-acre gardens there. Ronald Barnes was Carillonneur at Washington Cathedral and later at the University of California , Berkeley. He composed prolifically for the carillon in grand romantic style.

Quattuor (Couleurs) is a monumental four-movement carillon work by this innovative composer and conductor of international repute. All movements stand alone as individual carillon pieces. Lyndon-Gee is the recipient of two Macdowell Composition Fellowships (New England) and two nominations for classical Grammy awards in the last six years. He resides in both New York and Canberra, Australia.