October 23, 7:30 PM     
October 24, 6:00 PM
First Pres Santa Monica

Charles Ives
  An Ives Portfolio (1897-1935) of piano music, songs, and short ensemble pieces
  March "See the Conquering Hero Comes" (unpublished)
  Gyp the Blood or Hearst? Which is Worst?
  The Pond (Remembrance)
  The Housatonic at Stockbridge, Text: Robert Underwood Johnson
  At Sea (Adagio Sostenuto)
  Waltz-Rondo (published 2009)
  Over the Pavements
  Like a Sick Eagle, Text: John Keats
  Serenity, Text: John Greenleaf Whittier
  Impression of "St.Gaudens" Boston Common (unpublished)
  From the Steeples to the Mountains
  The Unanswered Question
Ernst Krenek
  George Washington Variations Op. 120 (1950)
Ben Johnston
  Revised Standards (1985) World Premiere
Samuel Barber
  Knoxville Summer 1915, Op.24(1947) Centenary  Text: James Agee           
                                               
 Mark Alan Hilt, conductor
 Scott Dunn, piano
 Elissa Johnston, soprano
 Mikhail Korzhev, piano
 Denali Quartet
 Jacaranda Chamber Orchestra 

Texts: Robert Underwood Johnson, John Keats, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Agee: "It has become the time of evening when people sit on their porches rocking gently and talking gently and watching the street..."

An emotional quilt of favorite and rare miniatures by America's greatest musical "original" will be followed by a new citizen's virtuosic paean to our first president, with perhaps some '50s irony; then a fresh take on some jazz standards and, to close, Barber's mystical channeling of childhood. Sarah Thornblade will give her official farewell performance as first violin of the Denali Quartet.

Join Jacaranda for the Opening Night After Party & Forte Awards at 10PM.