Made in Vermont with The Moth Radio Hour – Manchester

Music by Edvard Grieg, Edward Elgar, Derrick Jordan, Kelly-Marie Murphy and more are interspersed with and underscore storytelling about summer family camping adventures, a beauty pageant, road trips, and narration of Robert Frost and Calvin Coolidge writings. The concert concludes with Benjamin Britten’s Simple Symphony based on musical themes the composer wrote as a child.

PROGRAM

Andrew Crust, conductor
Moth Radio Story Hour storytellers: Susanne Schmidt, Tom Baginski, Bill Patton

Joaquin Turina – La oración del torero (The Bullfighter’s Prayer)

Edward Elgar – Salut d’amour

Derrik Jordan – Suite for an Imaginary Country
III. O.G. Raga

Kelly-Marie Murphy – Huron Carol Interlude

Leroy Anderson – Plink, Plank, Plunk

Intermission

Edvard Grieg – Holberg Suite
I. Praeludium, allegro vivace

Benjamin Britten – Simple Symphony
I. Boisterous Bourrée
II. Playful Pizzicato
IV. Frolicsome Finale

This concert is generously supported by Trust Company of Vermont and generous individual donors.