The American Philharmonic
A Resident Company of Wells Fargo Center for the Arts

For Young People

Discovering Hidden Treasures

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The American Philharmonic-Sonoma County will end its ninth season with a concert designed to engage the young and old alike. Music has long been used to tell stories and represent real objects and places in the world. This concert will travel through four centuries and three countries to reveal music's hidden treasures. Tchaikovsky's sweeping Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy carries the listener through the romance and misfortune of Shakespeare's tragic couple. Zooming ahead into the future, Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine captures the thrill of catapulting inside a vehicle of infinite speed. Moving back two centuries, the orchestra will support principal trumpeter Thomas Hyde and trumpeter Daniel Norris in Albinoni's beautiful, lyrical, and Baroque Concerto for Two Trumpets and Orchestra . In the 1970s, Hovhaness took on a compositional challenge from the New York Philharmonic to create a piece that incorporated recorded sounds of humpback whales. Hovhaness's And God Created Great Whales perfectly depicts the character of the churning sea. Finally, Respighi's The Pines of Rome takes us on a tour of Rome, bringing us down to the depths of the catacombs before rising to the grandeur of the sunrise over the Appian Way.

Tchaikovsky: Overture-Fantasy: “Romeo & Juliet”

Adams : Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Albinoni: Concerto for Two Trumpets & Orchestra

Thomas Hyde and Daniel Norris, solo trumpets

Hovhaness: And God Created Great Whales

Respighi: The Pines of Rome