GUEST ARTISTS: SARA HEATON, SOPRANO, ANNA LIM, VIOLIN, SOPHIE SCOLINK–BOROWER, PIANO, ROBERT SCHULTZ, PERCUSSION
Walt Disney’s brilliant use of Paul Dukas’ evocative concert piece, ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ grew out of a chance encounter, in a Los Angeles restaurant, between Disney and the legendary conductor, Leopold Stokowski.  The resulting animated concert, ‘Fantasia’, was a masterpiece that changed our ideas about music and movies, forever. In this program, which features, by popular demand, the return of soprano Sara Heaton, now singing with the Metropolitan Opera, a chamber version of Dukas’ work is paired with powerful music by some of the greatest composers of film, opera and theater scores, Verdi, Korngold and Bernstein.. Farrington)

MORRICONE:               Cinema Paradiso for flute, clarinet, strings, piano, and percussion
VERDI:                           Ave Maria from “Otello” for voice and strings
HERMANN:                  Psycho Suite for string quartet
BERNSTEIN:                Glitter and be Gay from “Candide”

ROTA                             Aria from “Divertimento Concertante” for double bass and piano
KORNGOLD:               Marietta’s Lied from ‘Die tote stadt’
DUKAS:                        The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (arr