La Banda a “La Mercè és Música”

Repertoire

George Gershwin: Cuban Overture (1932) (arr. M. Rogers) 11’‎
Franco Cesarini: La Charreada Mexican Pictures, Suite for Symphonic Band, Op. 8 (1989) 17’‎
José Barros: Pesares: Pasillo Colombiano (arr. Rubén Darío Gómez) 4’‎
Amanda Ira Aldridge “Montague Ring”: Three Arabian Dances (1919) 10’‎
Franco Cesarini: Bulgarian Dances Part I, Op.35 (2006) 12’‎
José R. Pascual-Vilaplana: Gràcies! (Premiere) 3’
Enric Casals: “Heroica”, a sardana dedicated to Pau Casals (1919) (arr. Lluís Oliva) 5’‎
Pep Ventura i Casas: Per tu ploro, sardana (1872) (arr. Jordi León) 4’‎

Artists

Barcelona Symphony Band

José R. Pascual-Vilaplana, conductor

Program

A city’s annual festival always brings out its most local and defining culture, that which most ‎deeply connects people to a particular place. Barcelona Symphony Band now wants to bring ‎us closer to this music specific to different peoples with very different perspectives as ‎testimony to the great treasure of traditional music. Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Bulgaria, ‎eastern music and Catalonia’s own sardanas will all take us on a journey of sound to various ‎places in the special time in which we are currently living, where physical distance has not ‎resulted in social distance. Music may be one of the best tools we have to help us ‎understand each other and think about the future. It’s party time: Let’s have fun!‎
‎José R. Pascual-Vilaplana‎