Today we will be playing a number of pieces based on folk tunes from England, the U.S. and Ireland.
- A Whole New World (warm up piece, 7:20-7:25 pm)
- Second Suite in F by Holst #1
- Quintett by Beethoven #1,4
- Shenandoah English Folk Song Suite #1,2,3
Intermission
- Streets of Laredo (The Cowboy’s Lament)
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Second Suite in F by Holst #IV
- Irish Suite
Scenes from England:
Second Suite in F was composed around 1905. It is based on English folk songs.
Beethoven Quintett
Shenandoah
The song “Shenandoah” appears to have originated with American and Canadian fur traders traveling down the Missouri River in canoes.
Various lyrics of Oh Shenandoah:
Cowboy Scenes from the 1800s
Lyrics of the Streets of Laredo
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof is set in a village, a Russian shtetl of Anatevka. A shtetl was a small town with a large Ashkenazi Jewish population which existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust.
Ukrainian countryside
Shtetl: this one of the best preserved shtetls in the world, located in Poland
A reconstruction of the interior of a wooden dwelling in a traditional Lithuanian shtetl
Scenes from Ireland:
We hope you enjoy the program! ~Liesl, Marc, Donna, Dan and Suzanne
