The High School Orchestra performed for the First Program students and their teachers. The program was built around the theme of Feelings in Music. They performed happy and sad music, and discussed how music taps into the emotions that sometimes are hard to describe in words. When a composer writes a piece, he or she puts it down in ink and paper, and they communicate with us through their musical language in mysterious ways.
The orchestra played the following pieces:
GRIEG : Suite "From Holberg's Time" - I. Prelude
MOZART : Minuet from "Cassation in G" k. 63
PETER WARLOCK : "Capriol" Suite, Movement I. Basse-Danse (the "pirate dance"), and VI. Mattachins/Sword Dance
ROBERT STARER : "Elegy" for strings (Commissioned by Dalton for our orchestra in 1965)
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD VON GLUCK : Pizzicato from "Don Juan"
FRANCESCO GEMINIANI (but based on music by Corelli) : Concerto Grosso in A Major, No. 9
Our orchestra is made up of Dalton students who work very hard at music, and some of them study music outside of school. But all of them enjoy being a part of our music department and find a sense of community playing music alongside their classmates, while learning about different kinds of music they don't encounter everywhere.