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05-Aug-2011
‘14 Years Ago’ – Joan Cochran Sommers Leads UMKC European Tourby Rob Howard |
 The UMKC Accordion Ensemble Concert Tour to Europe was indeed a great success. The 13 accordionists and 1 percussionist, directed by Joan Cochran Sommers, presented concerts in venues in the cities of Salzburg, Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and Munich. All concerts were sold out, and in many cases extra chairs had to be brought in.Music performed included the following selections: Excerpts from ‘An American in Paris’ (Gershwin) Medley from ‘A Fiddler on the Roof’ (Bock & Harnick) ‘All That Jazz’ from ‘Chicago’ (Kander & Ebb) ‘Solina’ (J. Lisenby) ‘Prelude and Fugue in G, BWV 541’ (Bach) ‘Dance of the Comedians’ (Smetana) ‘Granada’ (Lara) ‘The Syncopated Clock’ (Anderson) ‘The Ragtime Dance’ (Joplin) Excerpts from ‘Capriccio Espagnol’ (Rimsky-Korsakov) Joan Sommers also conducted the UMKC group and the accordion orchestra from Maisach in a combined performance of ‘Rhapsodie Andalusia’ (Gotz). Professor Herbert Scheibenreif of Neunkirchen, Austria, assisted with the organisation of the UMKC concerts. |