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West Side Story Symphonic Dances
March 14 & 16, 2025
Program

Eric Jacobsen, conductor

Michael Daniels, cello

Richard Strauss

(1864 - 1949)

Don Quixote

  1. Introduction: Don Quixote loses his sanity after reading novels about knights, and decides to become a knight-errant
  2. Theme: Don Quixote, knight of the sorrowful countenance
  3. Maggiore: Sancho Panza
  4. Variation I: Adventure at the Windmills
  5. Variation II: The Victorious Struggle Against the Army of the Great Emperor Alifanfaron
  6. Variation III: Dialogue between Knight and Squire
  7. Variation IV: Unhappy Adventure with a Procession of Pilgrims
  8. Variation V: The Knight's Vigil
  9. Variation VI: The Meeting with Dulcinea
  10. Variation VII: The Ride through the Air
  11. Variation VIII: The Unhappy Voyage in the Enchanted Boat
  12. Variation IX: Battle with the Magicians
  13. Variation X: Duel with the Knight of the Bright Moon
  14. Finale: Coming to his senses again – The Death of Don Quixote

 

Michael Daniels, cello

 

-- intermission --

 

Leonard Bernstein

(1918 - 1990)

Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

I. Prologue

II. "Somewhere"

III. Scherzo

IV. Mambo

V. Cha Cha

VI. Meeting Scene 

VII. "Cool" Fugue

VIII. Rumble

IX. Finale                                                                                           

 

Maurice Ravel

(1875 - 1937)

La valse, poème chorégraphique