Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival
Saturday, June 7 10:30 – 11:30 am
EcoVillage-Celebration Hall
Family Concert
The Classical Connection: From Baroque to Billy Joel
Julee Hickcox, flute
John Smith, bass
Al Wojtera, percussion
David Stewart Wiley, piano and host
We explore the roots of recorded popular hits – from Baroque, Classical, and
Ragtime to Billy Joel and other hit-makers – likely including:
Mozart/Arr. Wiley
Funky Figaro
Scott Joplin Three Short Rags:
Weeping Willow, Cascades, Strenuous Life
Wiley
5-Legged Rag
(2014) [premiere]
Jethro Tull
Bouree
[from J.S. Bach
Bouree
]
Billy Joel
Classical Invention
(2001)
Peter De Rose
The Lamp is Low
(1939) [from Ravel’s
Pavane
]
Apollo 100
Joy
(1972) [from Bach’s
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
]
Forrest/Wright
Stranger in Paradise
(1953) [from Borodin’s
Polovetsian Dances
]
Procol Harem
A Whiter Shade of Pale
(1967) [from Bach’s
Air on a G String
]
Bolling
Baroque
&
Blue
&
Irlandaise
[from Bach & Handel]
Raymond Scott
In an 18th Century Drawing Room
(1930)
[from Haydn
’s Piano Concerto in C
]
The Program will last an hour.
