B4 French for Breakfast #4

Start your day in style with a delicious breakfast and exquisite French music played by your favourite festival artists. Bon appétit!

After the French Revolution, French brass traditions took a major step forward, developing a taste for grandiose events with massed brass choirs. The five players from Golden Gate Brass concentrate on the more witty and whimsical side of the French character: from Gounod’s Funeral March for a Marionette to the oddly titled pieces of Erik Satie.

The concert is followed by a conversation with the artists led by Genevieve Jacobs.

Program

Georges Bizet, arr. Bankovic, Farandole (1872)

Charles Gounod, arr. Frackenpohl, Funeral March for a Marionette (1872)

Roland De Lassus, arr. Baker, Paisible Demaine (1571)

Erik Satie, arr. Baker, Sonneries de la Rose Croix 1. Air de L’Ordre (1892)

Claude LeJeune, arr. Baker, Voici le Printemps (c1600)

Lili Boulanger, arr. Linsmeier, D’un Vieux Jardin (1914)

Claude Debussy, arr. Mayer, Golliwog’s Cakewalk (1908)

Artists

Golden Gate Brass
Fletcher Cox and Joel Walmsley, trumpet
Aidan Gabriels, horn
Jackson Bankovic, trombone
Jason Catchpole, tuba