Pizzicati Polka - Leo Delibes (Arr. Mark Eubanks)
The final piece before intermission of the recital.
Featuring Sarah Montague, Andrew McKelvey, and Ann Kosanovic Brown, Adjunct Professor of Bassoon at Oregon State University, Corvallis.
Program notes:
Mark Eubanks was the principal bassoonist for the Oregon Symphony for the better part of 3 decades. During his time there, be started a group called The Bassoon Brothers which is a group of four bassoonists/contrabassoonists who perform non-traditional works to put it lightly. He claims himself as the head deranger for the group often taking perfectly good pieces of music and changing them. Pizzicati is deranged for 3 bassoons and contrabassoon from the most famous Pizzicato section of Delibes Sylvia ballet. The piece is performed in the halting, hesitant style originally intended by Delibes with some of the irreverent Bassoon Brothers own stylistic adaptations.