Port Charlotte High School Wind Orchestra Concert Report

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I attended the concert in Punta Gorda on October 19th at The Charlotte Performing Arts Center. The concert presented the Port Charlotte High School Wind Orchestra followed by Florida Gulf Coast University Wind Orchestra. FGCU’s wind orchestra was conducted by Dr. Rod Chesnutt. The first piece they played was Danse Bacchanale (1877) by Camille Saint-Sales from “Samson and Deliliah”. The final piece performed was Jug Blues and Fat Pickin (1986) by Don Freund. Early in the song, the Danse Bacchanale, which is a ballet scene in grand French opera, is a dance to pay homage to the god Bacchus, patron god of all things sensual. It opens with an oboe solo, whose middle-eastern flare arouses the supple image of a dancer spinning, to satisfy onlookers.

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