Irish Interlude

Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Our Irish interlude begins with George Gershwin's "Irish Waltz"; it continues with some traditional jigs, followed by Dublin-born Charles Villiers Stanford's "Irish Rhapsody" No. 6 for violin and orchestra, a work full of Irish tunes. And then there's the oboe. We hear two works featuring the reed instead of the voice from a 20th-century pop songwriter and a 19th-century opera composer: Alec Wilder's Oboe Concerto and Amilcare Ponchielli's Capriccio. Could those guys write tunes! (and that ain't blarney)....
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