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FORMAT: POPS PROGRAM
LENGTH: Half Show
TITLE: eXtreme Classical Makeover
TIME: 45 Minutes

With new Classical Subscriptions and Single ticket sales on the decline, this innovative program bridges the gap between POPS and Classical in a fun, entertaining and educational manner making cultivation of POPS audiences and conversion to Classical products easier.

This program combines the significant works of composers Bizet, Paganini, Vivaldi, Brahms, Tchaikovsky as well as J.S Bach and Beethoven with America's most significant contribution to music--JAZZ. These fresh treatments of orchestral standards will enchant your POPS audiences as they are presented in a pleasing, comfortable and humorous manner.

Listen to excerpts of this program below:

-Intermission-

INTRODUCTION OF QUARTET WITH ORCHESTRA

     Paganini Variations arr. V. Norman (9')

BAROQUE WITH ORCHESTRA

     Le Quattro Sassofoni arr. M. Weiser (7')

QUARTET ALONE

     Fugue Well-Tampered arr. D. Stambler (3')

     The Minute Bug arr. D. Stambler (3')

BALLAD

     Fur Elise arr. V. Norman (4')

HISTORY OF MUSIC IN 8 MINUTES

     Bach, Beethoven, Bebop & Beyond arr. G. Pascuzzi (8')

CLOSER

     Manteca arr. J. Tyzik (6')

ENCORE-UNANNOUNCED

     Flight of the Bumblebee (quartet only) arr. M. Mule (2')