SVS October 6, 2024 Concert Program

Rodeo Dances – Aaron Copland Rodeo is a ballet composed by Aaron Copland and choreographed by Agnes de Mille, which premiered in 1942. The ballet consists of five sections: "Buckaroo Holiday," "Corral Nocturne," "Ranch House Party," "Saturday Night Waltz," and "Hoe-Down." As a symphonic suite, Copland arranged the music for the orchestra titled Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo, which removed "Ranch House Party" and made minor adjustments to the final two sections. In symphonic form, the composition begins with an ambitious opening movement, slow movement, minuet, and finale. Rodeo found even greater success in In his autobiography, Copland wrote this fanfare at the request of Eugene Goossens, conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, who had written about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942–43 concert season. The composition was written in response to the US entry into World War II and was inspired by a famous 1942 speech by Vice President Henry A. Wallace, who proclaimed the dawning of the "Century of the Common Man." The Sound of Music – Richard Rodgers The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film set in Salzburg, Austria. It is based on Maria von Trapp's 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers and is a fictional retelling of her experiences as governess to seven children, her eventual marriage to their father, Captain Georg von Trapp, and their escape during the Anschluss in 1938. My Fair Lady – Frederick Loewe My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical comedy-drama film adapted from the 1956 Lerner and Loewe stage musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play Pygmalion. The film depicts a poor Cockney flower-seller named Eliza Doolittle who overhears a phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach her to speak English so well she could pass for a duchess in Edwardian London or, better yet, from Eliza's viewpoint, secure employment in a flower shop. this form, premiering at the Boston Pops in 1943. Fanfare for the Common Man – Aaron Copland