The CMPR Concert Band in Family Concerts
San Juan, PR
Family Concerts presents the Concert Band of the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music
under the artistic advice of maestro Rafael Enrique Irizarry
on Sunday, February 26, 2023, at 4:00 p.m.
in the Jesús María Sanromá Room of the Bertita and Guillermo L. Martínez Theater.
The repertoire to be presented includes the concert march The Boys of the Old Brigade (1901) by William Paris Chambers; four choreographic episodes of the musical West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, with transcription for symphonic band made in 1980 by Ian Polster; the overture to the operetta Dichter und Bauer by Franz von Suppè, with transcription for symphonic band made in 1922 by Henry Fillmore; the premiere in Puerto Rico of Ukrainian Folk Songs (1956) by Halsey Stevens, with transcription for band made in 1981 by William Schaefer for the “Wind Orchestra” of the University of Southern California and the Finale to Act II of the opera Lohengrin: Elsa's Einzug in die Kathedrale by Richard Wagner, with transcription for symphonic band of an original for orchestra made in 1938 by Lucien Cailliet.
Tickets cost $10 (plus service charges) and you can get them
at Ticket Center www.tcpr.com, (787) 792-5000.
For more information, access Facebook under the name: Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music,
our website www.cmpr.edu or you can call: 787-751-0160 ext. 260 or 274.
CONTACT:
Zaireli Rivera Rivera
Media Coordinator
787-751-0160 ext. 274
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