BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro Music Center announces the Windham Orchestra's first concert of 2016: Stars.
The concert will highlight the orchestra's local wind soloists.
Last season, Jessica Murrow opened the program with Strauss' Oboe Concerto. This season, seven wind soloists, all women, will play works from 1849 to 1949.
Copland's Clarinet Concerto is played by clarinetist and former area resident Karen Bressett. The orchestra is honoring her “artistry and accomplishments” as she plays this work written for jazz legend Benny Goodman, according to a news release.
Few ensembles take on Schumann's difficult Concert-Piece for Four Horns and Orchestra. Karen Horton, Chris Mortensen, Hilary Ledebuhr and Fleur Barnes-Rowell are the orchestra's solo quartet of French horns, and they and the orchestra are preparing for an athletic session of music playing.
Short works by Romantic composers Reinecke and Elgar played by flutist Kimi Hasegawa and bassoonist Diane Lipartito round out a varied evening. The moods are lyrical, conversational, sad, and humorous.
To complete the program, the Windham Orchestra will play Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave, one of the great seascapes and fantasy narratives in music.