Celebrate the start of the 2015 Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and be among the first to sign up for the 2015-16 WPA à la Carte* parties and activities! As always, black tie optional and golf attire perfectly acceptable.
Featuring our Wintergreen Festival Artists, this “Surprise Birthday Party” concert will celebrate the two decades of music that WPA has brought to the heart of Virginia. The Wintergreen Festival Artists and a few special guests will recreate some of the most memorable performances of the past 20 years. Read more here.
1915 English magazine illustration of a woman riding a Champagne cork
Skyline Pavilion (map)
$75, includes Opening Night Performance
Reception at 6:00PM, Performance at 7:30PM
SOLD OUT
PROGRAM
Part 1 – 1995 to 2005
Star Spangled Banner
arr. Larry Alan Smith (b. 1955)
Andrea Schultz, Violin
Air for Solo Flute
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
Lance Suzuki, Flute
“Some Enchanted Evening” from South Pacific
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979)
George McKinney, Baritone – Arnold Popkin, Piano
Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: Fugue
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Goochland Rag John Bullard (b. 1959)
John Bullard, Banjo
Sonata for Violin Op. 27 No. 2, Mov’t 1: “Obsession”
Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931)
Elizabeth Vonderheide, Violin
Suite for Flute and Jazz Trio
Claude Bolling (b. 1930)
Baroque and Blue
Javanaise
Irlandaise
Veloce
Julee Hickcox, Flute – Al Wojtera, Drums – R. Wayne Gallops, Piano – John Preston Smith, IV, Bass
Intermission
Part 2 – 2005 to 2015 (and beyond!)
Trio
Michael White (b. 1931)
Aaron Hill, Oboe - Steve Larson, Viola – Winston Choi, Piano
Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major, BWV 1010
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wesley Baldwin, Cello
Octet for Strings in B-flat Major
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Ross Monroe Winter, Sharan Leventhal, Zach Matteson, Nick Montopoli, Violin
Ralph Fielding and Karl Mitze, Viola
Geoffrey Manyin, Cello
Dee Moses, Bass
Prelude in G-sharp Minor
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Arnold Popkin, Piano
Opening night was sponsored by Nanci & John Taylor, Barbara & Hank Gibb, Gail & Jim Tatum and Margaret Adam
