{"id":30712,"date":"1999-01-21T11:52:23","date_gmt":"1999-01-21T15:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=30712"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:33:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:33:59","slug":"bates-orchestra-perform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1999\/01\/21\/bates-orchestra-perform\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates College orchestra to perform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a program of <em>French Music for the Dance<\/em> and Beethoven&#8217;s Triple Concerto, the Bates College Orchestra, under the direction of William Matthews, the Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music, will perform at 8 p.m. Feb. 6 in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first half of the program features music inspired by dance and includes works from a variety of periods. The orchestra will play a suite of Franco American fiddle tunes by Greg Boardman, &#8220;Bon Temps Chez Nous,&#8221; commissioned by the orchestra with the Alice Swanson Esty Endowment; Baroque ballet music from the early 18th-century composer Jean-Philipe Rameau from his opera <em>Dardanus<\/em>; Ravel&#8217;s impressionistic &#8220;Pavane pour une infante defunte (Renaissance dance for a dead princess)&#8221;; and Darius Milhaud&#8217;s 1923 jazz-flavored ballet score, &#8220;La creation du monde (the creation of the world)&#8221; with saxophone and drum.<\/p>\n<p>The second half of the program features Beethoven&#8217;s Triple Concerto played by the St. Cecilia Trio as special guest soloists. The trio is composed of pianist Duncan Cumming &#8217;93; violinist Scott Esty &#8217;92; and cellist S\u00f6len Dikener.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information, call the Olin Arts Center at 207-786-6135.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a program of French Music for the Dance and Beethoven&#8217;s Triple Concerto, the Bates College Orchestra, under the direction of William Matthews, the Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music, will perform at 8 p.m. Feb. 6 in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,11010,39],"tags":[1367,6135,9244],"class_list":["post-30712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-arts","category-event-highlights","tag-bates-college-orchestra","tag-music-tag","tag-william-matthews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92448,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30712\/revisions\/92448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}