Repertoire
Philip Sparke: Celebration (1993) 12’
Clifton Williams: Fanfare and Allegro (1956) 6’
Bruce Broughton: A Celebration Overture (2015) 4’
Theresa Martin: Dark Life of the Night Girl (2015) 11’ – National premiere
Elliot del Borgo: Fantasia for Christmas (1998) 4’
Randol Alan Bass: Gloria (2011) 7’
Randol Alan Bass: The Night before Christmas (2007) 7’
Salvador Brotons: Nadales catalanes (Catalan Christmas Carols), Op. 76 (1998) 12’
ARTISTS
Barcelona Symphonic Band (BMB)
Carlota Olcina, actress
David Pintó, stage direction
José R. Pascual-Vilaplana, conductor
Programme
José R. Pascual-Vilaplana conducts the Band in their traditional Christmas concert with a selection of original music for wind orchestra written at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries.
This programme, predominantly featuring American composers, has a truly festive feel. The concert opens with Celebration by British composer Philip Sparke, followed by the award-winning Fanfare and Allegro by Clifton Williams, and A Celebration Overture by film composer Bruce Broughton.
The programme will also include the first performance of Dark Life of the Night Girl, a work for narrator and concert band by composer Theresa Martin that tells the story of a little girl with a rare skin disease making exposure to the sun fatal.
Then follows a collection of pieces with a Christmas theme, including Fantasia for Christmas, arranged by Elliot del Borgo, and Gloria and The Night before Christmas, by Randol Alan Bass. Finally, the concert would not be complete without the Nadales Catalanes (Catalan Christmas Carols) by Salvador Brotons.
