A classic Salon orchestra programme, with famous tunes and arrangements from the 1890s to 1950s. From Elgar to Gershwin and Take 5 – nostalgic, entertaining, danceable. The programme also plays with some of the mathematical enigmas of music.
Recordings from performance at MIA, Strathaven, on Monday 23 March 2026, 8pm.
Programme
Prologue – Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach (Knee Play 5) (1976) (not performed at MIA)
Edward Elgar, Enigma Variations op. 36, variation XII (B.G.N.) Andante rubato (1899) / arr. 2026 for Salonorchester
Pietro Mascagni / arr. Becce: Serenata (1894 / 1928)
Hans May / arr. Mac Ayn: A Star fell from Heaven (film waltz) (1934)
Richard Rodgers / arr. Spud Murphy): The Blue Room (foxtrot) (1926 / 1935)
Alphons Czibulka / arr. Artok: Gavotte Stephanie (1881 / 1925)
George Gershwin / arr. Salabert: Strike up the band (foxtrot military style) (1927 / 1928)
Paul Desmond / Brubeck quartet / arr. Greenslade: Take 5 (5/4) (1959)
Dizzy Gillespie / Frank Paparelli: A Night in Tunesia (samba) (1944)
Granville Bantock: Scenes from the Scottish Highlands (1914), Strathspey: The braes o’ Tullymet, arr. 2026 for Salonorchester
Encore – J. S. Bach / arr. Granville Bantock: “Sleepers, Awake” choral variation (1599 Philipp Nicolai / 1731 Bach / 1925 Bantock)
Gabriel Doucet (violin)
Shona MacLeod (violin)
Gabriel Reinés March (violin)
Martin Kretschmer (viola)
Elizabeth Porter (cello)
Lynette Eaton (double bass)
Sophia Duncan (flute & clarinet)
Stephen Webster (clarinet & alto sax)
Sharon Kretschmer (trumpet)
Bob Whitney (tuba)
Derek Archibald (piano)
Noah Chalamanda (percussion)
