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EDWARD GARDNER conducts
DAVID CHILDS euphonium
DALLAS SYMPHONY CHORUS – ANTHONY BLAKE CLARK chorus director

WALTON Coronation Te Deum, arranged by Palmer James Macmillan
JAMES MACMILLAN Where the Lugar meets the Glaisnock (US Premiere)
HOLST The Planets

Fresh from his wildly successful recent appearance with the DSO, Edward Gardner returns to conduct Holst’s most famous score, with the astrological character of each of the celestial bodies. Each planetary “portrait” reveals a fitting attribute, from Mars’ bellicose hammer blows to the haunting resonances of Neptune, “The Mystic,” with female voices singing wordlessly off stage till they fade away into the great unknown. Walton’s regal hymn of praise was commissioned to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953 and sung as she made her exit from Westminster Abbey. David Childs, euphonium sensation and brass faculty member of the University of North Texas, solos in the US premiere of a concerto by critically acclaimed Scottish composer James MacMillan, whose music is esteemed “for its rhythmic excitement and powerful emotional communication.” (Boosey & Hawkes)