Berkeley Symphony: Canadian-American Connections with William Eddins, Music Director of Canada's Edmonton Symphony Orchestra October 23, 2008

Berkeley Symphony
William Eddins, conductor

William Eddins, Music Director of Canada's Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, opens with a trio of short selections from Paris before the War. Program also includes Canadian composer Allan Gilliland's Rhapsody with Mr. Eddins on the piano, written as a companion piece to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

Germaine Tailleferre, Valse des Depeches
(Waltz of the Dispatches)
Claude Debussy, La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin
(Girl with Flaxen Hair)
Lili Boulanger, D'un Matin du Printemps
(Of a Spring Morning)
Allan Gilliland, Rhapsody GEB
Listen in its entirety!
(U.S. Premiere)
William Eddins, Piano
Bohuslav Martinu, Symphony No. 1

Official Website: http://www.berkeleysymphony.org/programs/season.htm#_i100