The Strings of Arda of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, with guests.
Manuel Ramos, Rebecca Boyer Hall - violins
Christian Woehr - viola
Catherine Lehr - cello
Christopher Carson - bass
Thomas Stubbs - percussion
Ayako & Haruka Watanabe - harp, keyboard
Program:
Creation and Destruction: Theories, Myths and Music
A movement from the Creation — Joseph Haydn 6’
Creation of the World — Darius Milhaud 7’20”
Oran Môr (world premiere) — Christian Woehr 8’
(Silmarillion creation myth by Tolkien, with synthesizer, percussion.)
La noche de los Mayas, 4: Noche De Encantamiento — Silvestre Revueltas 10’
The Great High Wind That Blew The Low Post Down — Sullivan/Boyer/Woehr 4’
Elegy for 9/11— Haruka Watanabe 5’20”
Blue Iguana (world premiere) — Christian Woehr 8’
(Composed on Grand Cayman Island, homage to endangered blue iguana)
Joshua Fit de Battle Ob Jerico — Trad/ Woehr 4’
TIME: 7 p.m.
LOCATION: James S. McDonnell Planetarium
COST: $5.00 for Members. $10 for non-Members