VSO Up Close

Naima Burrs, conductor

Featuring:
Rachel Ordaz, piccolo
Alex Mayer & George Corbett, oboes
Michael Byerly & Eric Just, clarinets
Margaret Albrecht & Brian Do, basset horns
Laura Leisring & Christy Havens, bassoons
Jacob Wilder, Stephen Slater, Avery Staples, & Hirofumi Tanaka, horns
Fanny Pointet, violin
Sebastian Stöger, cello
Christopher White, bass
Alexis Colner, harp

Claude Debussy: Bilitis: Six épigraphes antiques, No. 1, 3 & 4
Jacque Ibert: Trio for Violin, Cello, and Harp
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-flat Major, “Gran Partita”

The VSO wind section takes center stage to perform Mozart’s remarkable “Gran Partita.” Nicknamed the “Big Wind Symphony”, this playful, dramatic, and expansive Serenade features an ensemble of 13 instruments and will be familiar to fans of the film Amadeus as the music that first reveals Mozart’s true genius to Salieri.