The Foothill College Symphonic Wind Ensemble David B. Adams, Conductor
Robert C. Smithwick Theater
Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA
2:30 PM, Sunday, March 22, 1998 Fairest of the Fair March by John Philip Sousa Symphony on Themes of John Philip Sousa
Mvt. III after ``Fairest of the Fair'' by Ira Hearshen
Morceau de Concert Julie Callahan, Horn Soloist Hungarian March
from ``Damnation of Faust'' by Hector Berlioz American Overture for Band by Joseph Willcox Jenkins Chorale Prelude: Turn Not Thy Face by Vincent Persichetti Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion by P. D. Q. Bach, Adapted by Prof. Peter Schickele I. Grand Entrance
II. Simply Grand Minuet
III. Romance in The Grand Manner
IV. Rondo Mucho Grando El Camino Real by Alfred Reed Encore: Colossus of Columbia by Russell Alexander Program Notes Fairest of the Fair March by John Philip Sousa One of Sousa's favorite sayings was "A horse, a dog, a gun, a girl, and music on the side. That is my idea of heaven." When all of his march titles are examined, Sousa's appreciation of the fairer sex is obvious. In this instance, the subject was a pretty girl who worked at the annual Boston Food Fair. Even though the March King never met the young lady, her memory inspired this title when he was preparing a new march for the food fair in 1908. It was the only march that Sousa composed that year, but it is generally regarded as one of his most melodic and best-written marches, with its light, bouncy opening and harmonic Trio ending. | |
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