First, there’s something about Vienna. Then Spain, followed by Bohemia. After a break, the action moves to the Mississippi River, then to Rick’s Cafe Americain in Casablanca, where the world will always welcome lovers as time goes by, and finally to a familiar, rousing and patriotic statement about Old Glory.
The above-mentioned action is musical in nature and serves as a brief summary of the Solano Symphony’s annual season-ending Pops concert. It begins at 3 p.m.
Sunday, Mother’s Day, in the Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre. Longtime symphony conductor Semyon Lohss will lead the orchestra in a lighthearted but compelling program that always traditionally ends with John Philip Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever,” the best-known rousing tune by the so-called “March King.” The program starts with F.
von Suppé’s “Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna” Overture, an 1844 piece infused with plenty of pleasant, Romantic-era lyricism but begins with a boisterous opening and ends in an equally boisterous manner. Ballet music from Massenet’s 1885 “Le Cid” opera follows, and concertgoers will hear lush sounds based on dances from Spain’s provinces: “Castillane,” “Andalouse,” “Aragonaise,”Aubade,” “Catalane,” “Madrilène,” and “Navarraise.” In an additional dance frame of mind, the musicians will perform Dvořák’s Slavonic Dance, Op.
72, No. 2, in E minor, from a composition other than his “New World” Symphony that re.
