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Las Vegas Philharmonic: Musician’s Choice
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DEBUSSY Danses Sacree et Profane (Kim Glennie, harp)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Concerto for Oboe/Str (Steve Caplan, oboe)
CPE BACH Cello Concerto in A Major (Andrew Smith, cello)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
The Las Vegas Philharmonic spotlighted three of its musicians in a touching performance featuring works by Debussy, Vaughan Williams and CPE Bach. Harpist Kimberly Glennie shines on Claude Debussy’s Danses sacrée et profane, oboist Stephen Caplan demonstrates command of his instrument in Vaughan Williams’s Oboe Concerto and cellist Andrew Smith delights audiences with his performance of C.P.E. Bach’s Cello Concerto in A Major. The orchestra ended the evening with Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, featured in the 2003 film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
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