Music from America

South Cheshire Orchestra

A concert of light music with an American theme, and all written by mainly American composers.  The last three items form a gentle lead into the Christmas season.

The programme:

Stars and Stripes Forever - John Philip Sousa

Blue Tango - Leroy Anderson

American Folk Rhapsody - Clare Grundman

Joplinese - Arthur John Potts (in tribute to Scott Joplin)

Ashokan Farewell - Jay Ungar

West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein

Interval

American Salute - Morton Gould

Teddy Bears' Picnic - John Walter Bratton

Variations on a Shaker Melody - Aaron Copland

White Christmas - Irving Berlin

A Christmas Festival - Leroy Anderson 

Sleigh Ride - Leroy Anderson