Bassoonarama, December 19, 2022

Robert Blocker, Dean

ysm ensembles

Bassoonarama

And Now for Something Completely Different A Night at the Opera...and the Ballet Frank Morelli, studio director December 19, 2022 | 7:30 p.m. | Sudler Recital Hall in William L. Harkness Hall

John Philip Sousa 1854–1932 arr. Mark Benson

The Liberty Bell March (1893)

Giuseppi Verdi First Suite from Rigoletto (1851) 1813–1901 arr. Jean-Christophe Dassonville Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840–1893 arr. Craig Kaucher & Robert Elkjer

The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a I. Overture IIa. March IIb. Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy

Traditional American arr. Alan Hawkins & Frank Morelli

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Traditional American

Amen

Jester Hairston 1901–2000 arr. Morelli

Mary’s Boy Child (1956)

intermission

Program cont.

Verdi arr. Dassonville

Second Suite from Rigoletto (1851)

Tchaikovsky arr. Kaucher & Elkjer

The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a III. Waltz of the Bassoons (Waltz of the Flowers) IId. Coffee IIc. Trepak

Tchaikovsky arr. Yuki Katayama ’13MM

The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a IIe. Tea

Hugo Blanco 1940–2015 arr. Morelli

Mi Burrito Sabanero (1972)

José Feliciano b. 1945 arr. Elkjer

Feliz Navidad (1970)

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Yale Bassoon Studio 2022–23 bassoon Darius Farmoumand Winfred Felton Ryan Goodwin Anjali Pilliai Marty Tung Lucas Zeiter Frank Morelli † contrabassoon Ryan Goodwin

† faculty

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