Welcome to a special concert edition of On Air featuring the Inwood Chamber Players performing a chamber concert featuring lively dance pieces for Woodwind Octect, which include some arrangements by Inwood resident, Gilbert Dejean. We titled the concert “Dances through the Centuries” in tribute to the selections you’ll here from the composers that make up this light and joyful program, which was recorded live on February 25, 2024. 

Program:

Ferenc Farkas - Contrafacta Hungarica

·       Basse Danse

·       Gagliarda

·       Passamezzo

·       Saltarello

·       Interlude

·       Heiduckentanz

Gordon Jacob - The Elizabethan Fancies

·       The Carman's Whistle

·       A Toye

·       Quodling's Delight

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Menuet from Symphony No. 39

Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dances 3 and 7

Antonin Dvorak - Slavonic Dances 9 and 15

Emile Waldteufel - Skaters Waltz

Peter Lawrance – Boogie

Musicians:

Michele Farah - Oboe 1

Ellen Gruber - Oboe 2

David Valbuena - Clarinet 1

Jackie Gillette _ Clarinet 2

Karl Kramer - Horn 1

Sara Dellaposta- Horn 2

Patti Wang - Bassoon 1

Gilbert Dejean - Bassoon 2