The Oregon Mandolin Orchestra’s Musical Trip Through Summer In Paris
June 21 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Bonjour! The Oregon Mandolin Orchestra is inviting you to a matinee celebration of French composers with a musical journey through Summer in Paris.
Who: Oregon Mandolin Orchestra
What: Summer in Paris Concert
When: 3 p.m. Saturday, June 21. Doors open 2:30 p.m.
Where: First Presbyterian Church, 4300 Main St., Vancouver, WA 98663
Tickets: $15 at the door; $10 for students and seniors
Information: www.oregonmandolinorchestra.org
The concert program’s oldest piece, Lully Gavotte, was composed in 1686 by Marin Marais. Two compositions by Gabriel Fauré, Cantique de Jean Racine and Berceuse, were penned in the mid-1860s.
An 1876-vintage piece by Léo Delibes, Pizzicati, will be instantly recognizable for being used as the lighthearted soundtrack to dance scenes in modern films and cartoons.
La Mer and La Vie En Rose, made famous by vocalists as diverse as Bobby Darin and Édith Piaf, respectively, captivated the music scene in the 1940s, dominating radio play on both sides of the Atlantic.
Joining them are Tears and Vous et Moi, two songs that exemplify Parisian jazz of the same decade, were written — or popularized by — guitarist Django Reinhardt, whose Quintette du Hot Club de France pioneered jazz performed by an all-string band.
Meanwhile, the concert program’s newest piece, Meditation On A Sunken Cathedral, was composed in 2002 by Dr. James S. Imhoff, a music professor who plays mandocello in the OMO. Imhoff was inspired by French composer Claude Debussy’s La Cathédrale Engloutie, a piano prelude about a mythic cathedral that sank into the sea. In Meditation, the cathedral dramatically rises from the waters before quietly sinking again into the deep.
