CIRCLE OF FRIENDS

CMSCVA honors the 150-anniversary year of British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor with a concert of his music and that of his friends and teachers. The program includes Coleridge-Taylor’s jubilant Nonet, and the ultimate friendship tribute piece, Elgar’s “Enigma” Variations, in an arrangement by CMSCVA Artistic Director James Wilson.

Program includes:

Coleridge-Taylor │ Nonet for winds, piano and string quartet, mvt. 1 (arr. Wilden Dannenberg)

Traditional/Coleridge Taylor │ “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”

Traditional/Coleridge Taylor │ “La Bamboula”

Hurlstone │ Characteristic Pieces for clarinet and piano, “Croon Song”

Stanford │ String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 104, Allegro moderato

Coleridge-Taylor │ 5 Fantasiestück, Op. 5, “Dance”

Elgar/Wilson │ Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 (“Enigma”), for winds, piano, and string quartet