Oak Ridge Community Orchestra, May 2011 Concert

These recordings aren't by ORCO, although the ORCO concert is being recorded.

Gabriel Faure, Pelleas et Melisande. Like Peer Gynt, this music was composed to accompany a play.

I.

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II.

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III.

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IV.

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Jacques Offenbach, Orfee dans l'enfer, an overture arranged at a later date than the first performance in 1858. Get out your clutching pearls -- someone's not taking French opera seriously!

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Ravel, Pavane pour un enfant defunt. There is only a hypothetical, conceptual dead infant involved, as Ravel composed this as a conjectural piece, something that might have been performed in the Spanish court.

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Claude Achille Debussy, Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

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Georges Bizet, Carmen Suite No. 1. And now, excerpts from one of the most famous operas ever.

I. Prelude

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Ia. Aragonaise

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II. Intermezzo

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III. Seguedille

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IV. Les dragons d'Alcalla

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V. Les Toreadors

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