West Side Connection celebrates the diversity in Buffalo through featured performers, composers, and repertoire. This year’s program features the music and voices of two living composers; Ivette Herryman Rodriguez and Christopher Ducasse, along with a finalist of the 2024 Sphinx Junior Division Competition, cellist Sonya Moomaw.
Brent Chancellor, conductor
Ivette Herryman Rodriguez, composer
Christopher Ducasse, composer
Sonya Moomaw, cello
2024 Sphinx Competition Junior Division finalist
Program Repertoire:
Slavonic Dances No. 1
by Antonin Dvorak
Eritaj (Heritage)
by Christopher Ducasse
Bienvenido Júbilo!
by Ivette Herryman Rodriguez
Cello Concerto in D, movement 3
by Joseph Haydn
Sonya Moomaw, cello
A Danzón Done My Way
by Ivette Herryman Rodriguez
Fòs Nou (Our Strength)
by Christopher Ducasse
Rodeo
by Aaron Copland
Chapters:
00:00 Opening credits
00:50 MUSIC: Slavonic Dances No. 1 by Antonin Dvorak
05:45 COMPOSER INTERVIEW: Introductions of composers Ivette Herryman and Christopher Ducasse, Inspiration behind the music – Eritaj
08:27 MUSIC: Eritaj (Heritage) by Christopher Ducasse
17:07 COMPOSER INTERVIEW: Inspiration behind the music – Bienvenido Júbilo!
17:43 MUSIC: Bienvenido Júbilo! by Ivette Herryman Rodriguez
22:30 MUSIC: Haydn Cello Concerto in D, movement 3 by Joseph Haydn, Sonya Moomaw, cello
28:00 PERFORMER INTERVIEW: Sonya Moomaw, cello, Sphinx Competition finalist
32:43 COMPOSER INTERVIEW: Falling in love with music – Ivette and Christopher, Inspiration behind the music – A Danzón Done My Way
35:50 MUSIC: A Danzón Done My Way by Ivette Herryman Rodriguez
43:30 COMPOSER INTERVIEW: Inpiration behind the music – Fòs Nou (Our Strength)
44:28 MUSIC: Fòs Nou (Our Strength) by Christopher Ducasse
50:52 MUSIC: Rodeo by Aaron Copland
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