Schoenfield's Vaudeville

Evening Music | May 6, 2010

Versatile composer Paul Schoenfield took inspiration for his "Vaudeville" from Schumann's famous "Carnaval." Written as a concerto for the rarely-heard piccolo trumpet, "Vaudeville" colorfully describes such things as a "barnyard ballet" and "vulpine village minstrels." We'll hear the trumpeter it was written for, Wolfgang Basch; John Nelson leads the New World Symphony.

Speaking of Schumann, our series of Schumann symphonies continues tonight with his Symphony No. 2 in C from the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique under John Eliot Gardiner. Also, Vaughan William's dichotomous "Pastorale" Symphony, which — despite its title — is really an elegaic representation of World War I.

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