VSO Presents Made In Vermont with the Moth Radio Hour – Spruce Peak

VSO’s string orchestra is joined by The Moth Radio Hour guests from Vermont for a concert with storytelling at its heart. Music by Edvard Grieg, Edward Elgar, Derrick Jordan, Kelly-Marie Murphy and more are interspersed with and underscore storytelling about summer family camping adventures, a beauty pageant, road trips, and narration of Robert Frost and Calvin Coolidge writings. The concert concludes with Benjamin Britten’s Simple Symphony.

Program

JOAQUIN TURINA – La oración del torero (The Bullfighter’s Prayer)

EDWARD ELGAR – Salut d’amour (played over Moth storyteller #1 Patton “Maude”)

DERRIK JORDAN – Suite for an Imaginary Country, III O. G. Raga

KELLY-MARIE MURPHY – Huron Carol Interlude (played over Moth reader, “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” reading)

LEROY ANDERSON – Plink, Plank, Plunk (played over Moth Storyteller #2 Baginski – title TBC)

Intermission

EDVARD GRIEG – Holberg Suite, 1. Praeludium, allegro vivace (played over Moth storyteller #3 Schmidt “We Love the Fathers”)

SONNY-RAY DAY RIDER – The Grief-Eater Firaga, II. Blood Elegy

EDWARD ELGAR/REED – Chanson de matin (played over Calvin Coolidge speech by Moth reader, “Vermont is a State I Love”)

BENJAMIN BRITTEN – Simple Symphony