My Program: WAGNER – Siegfried Idyll
ROY HARRIS – Symphony No. 3
WAGNER – Grosser Festmarsch (American Centennial March)
intermission
DAUGHERTY – Le Tombeau de Liberace for piano and chamber orchestra
DAUGHERTY – Dead Elvis
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES – Mavis in Las Vegas
The case for my program: A transatlantic musical meditation on the contradictions of fame, the value of celebrity and transience of greatness.
After a back-and-forth battle, "Eternal Stories" by Peter Sachon has won this year's Fantasy Program Contest. Peter is a cellist who has performed all over the United States, Europe and Asia. Mr. Sachon has played for the original Broadway productions of Fiddler on the Roof, The Light in the Piazza, High Fidelity, Legally Blonde, and South Pacific. He has also played in the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and toured Europe and the U.S. with Pink Martini. As a part of his concert series, The Cello Project, Mr Sachon has premiered more than thirty new works for cello; all written for him by Broadway composers. www.petersachon.com
+48: Eternal Stories (338 votes)
+9: Symphonic Swim (121 votes)
+4: One Movement, Please (68 votes) +4: The End (46 votes) +4: Never heard (16 votes) +4: Musical Comedy (14 votes) +4: Concertos (10 votes) +4: The Piano Concerto (10 votes) +4: Dinner and a concert (8 votes) +4: Colors in 3D (6 votes)
+3: Made in USA (219 votes) +3: Preach It! A Musical Sermon (131 votes) +3: Everything You Want to Know about F-sharp Minor (9 votes) +3: Liszt Rarely Heard Piano Concertos (9 votes) +3: West Meets East (5 votes) +3: Common Ground (3 votes)
+2: Transcriptions: Orchestrations and Reductions (12 votes) +2: Siegfried and Roy (4 votes) +2: How to enter (4 votes) +2: The Ring Cycle (2 votes)
0: Mostly Strings (14 votes) 0: Bavarian Rhapsody (6 votes)
-1: Church Windows (7 votes) -1: Jazz Age (5 votes)
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