“Distant Impressions” is a wide-ranging program of 19^th and 20^th-century music, written by composers inspired by the sights, sounds, and legends of other cultures.

(total duration: 75 minutes + intermission)

"Estampes"

        Pagodes

        Evening in Granada

        Gardens in the Rain

Claude Debussy

"China Gates"

John Adams

"El Salon Mexico" (arr. L. Bernstein)

Aaron Copland

intermission

"Masques" Op. 34

        Shéhérazade

        Tantris le Bouffon

        Serenade de Don Juan

Karol Szymanowski

from "Les Années de Pélegrinage"

    Petrach Sonnet No.123

(from 2nd Year, Italy)

    "Vallée d'Obermann"

(from 1st Year; Switzerland)

Franz Liszt