Friday December 17, 2010 at 7:30PM

Gregory Walker, violin
Molly Kittle, mezzo

at First Presbyterian Church, Boulder

• Mozart Violin Concerto no. 5 (Turkish)
• Canteloube Songs of the Auvergne
• Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite arranged by Jacob

1. March (Seventeen Come Sunday)
2. Intermezzo (My bonny boy)
3. March (Folk songs from Somerset)

• Rimsky-Korsakov Cappricio Espagnol
• Sibelius Finlandia
• Anderson Christmas Festival

As the Boulder Symphony continues to journey to the farthest reaches of creation, we are collecting precious gems of classical music that are based in folk elements.  Both Mozart and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov traveled extensively, and absorbed musical elements of all their journeys.  The Turkish Violin concerto will be performed by Gregory Walker, who will explore all the possibilities of creation, as Mozart would have done through improvised cadenzas.  Rimsky-Korsakov summed up Spanish life almost as well as Emmanual Chabrier when he wrote Cappricio Espganol, which will feature the exceptional solo talents of members of the Boulder Symphony.  Jean Sibelius’ Finlandia took a simple folk song of his native land, and by rallying the independence movement against Russia, composed the unofficial national anthem of Finland.