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"Sea Songs"

  • Luis "Chico" Portillo Performing Arts Center Connally High School, 13212 North Lamar Boulevard Austin, TX, 78753 (map)

Take a musical voyage through the seas with concert works that express the beauty and adventure of the ocean and the courage of those who go “Down to the Sea in Ships.”


Program

Dr. Kyle Glaser, Music Director
Bill Haehnel, Assistant Director

Who’s Who in Navy Blue — John Philip Sousa
Down to the Sea in Ships — Robert Russell Bennett, set. Kyle Glaser
— The Way of the Ship — Mists and Mystery — Waltz of the Clipper Ships — Finale, introducing the S.S. Eagle —
Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquility) — Roger Zare
Midway March — John Williams, trans. Lavender
Sea Songs — Thomas Knox
South Pacific (Symphonic Scenario) — Richard Rodgers, arr. Bennett, adapt. R. Mark Rogers
Anchors Aweigh — Charles A. Zimmermann, arr. George F. Briegel

Earlier Event: November 5
"Grand Structures"
Later Event: April 14
“Old, New, Borrowed, Blue”