NEC Chamber Singers & Symphonic Winds: Duke Ellington's Sacred Concert + Françaix
NEC Chamber Singers and Symphonic Winds perform Duke Ellington's Sacred Concert, featuring alumnae Patrice Williamson, vocalist, and pianist Helen Sung. Also on the program is Jean Françaix' Sept Danses, conducted by Iverson Eliopoulos '23 MM.
This is an in-person event with a public live stream.
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Jean Françaix | Sept Danses
Le jeu de la poupée
Funérailles de la poupée
La présentation des petits amis
Variation de Paul
Pas de deux entre Sophie et Paul
La goûter
Danse des filets à papillonsProgram note
In 1935 Françaix wrote a 30-minute ballet scored for symphony orchestra based on the children’s book Les Malheurs de Sophie, by the 19th-century Russian author Comtesse de Segur. The story of Sophie takes place in a French castle, where she manages to get into one mischievous scrape after another, much to the consternation of her mother. Later, in 1971, Francaix gathered seven movements from the ballet to form a suite, Sept Danses, scored for ten winds.
- Program Note from University of Georgia Hodgson Wind Ensemble concert program, 17 November 2022
Artists- Iverson Eliopoulos '23 MM, conductor
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BRIEF INTERMISSION
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Duke Ellington | from Sacred Concert
Transposed and edited by Bill Drury
In the beginning God
Almighty God
Freedom No. 7
Heaven
Freedom No. 1 & No. 7Artists- Patrice Williamson, soprano
- Helen Sung, piano
- William Drury, conductor
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Duke Ellington | Come Sunday