“A Dark(er) and Stormy(er) Night”

Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 7:30 P.M.
Sundin Music Hall, Saint Paul, MN

• Bernard Herrmann
  Prelude to Psycho
  

• Samuel Barber
  Essay No. 1 for Orchestra
  

• Erika Foin
  Solstice (2002 MPO Commission)
  

• W. A. Mozart
  Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466
  

• Camille Saint-Saëns
  Danse Macabre
  

• Johann Strauss, Jr.
  Thunder & Lightning Polka

Jill Dawe, piano soloist
Carla Alcorn, narrator

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a dark and stormy volume of orchestral score --
While I nodded, nearly napping, sounds of audiences clapping,
And of someone gently rapping, pounded through my brain's front door --
"'Tis some reader, there" I muttered, "reading lines that plunge and soar --
Dark and stormy tales of yore."

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak November;
And each separate frightful work hath wrought its ghost through the stage door.
Alas! There will be no safe harbor from the works of Strauss and Barber
Mozart, Hermann, Foin-they harbor nightmares from the ghostly shore
Even Saint-Saens causes shivers, with his Danse Macabre, for
Dark and stormy tales of yore.

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