Big City Orchestra at the 15th Annual Outsound New Music Summit

Big City Orchestra: Das percussion Ninah Pixie voice, reeds Andy Cowitt voice, reeds, bass guitar Polly Moller flutes, percussion Suki O Kane percussion 15th Annual Outsound New Music Summit San Francisco Community Music Center July 30, 2016 Big City Orchestra presents a unique version of The Persian Market by composer British Albert William Ketèlbey in 1920 inspired by Johann Strauss II s Composition Persischer Marschof which was very popular with theater orchestras and in sheet music form, and was followed by other similar exotic compositions such as In a Chinese Temple Garden, and In a Monastery Garden were very popular with theater orchestras and in sheet music form. Although this type of music is now out of style, it was well considered at the time Albert Ketelby was in some ways the last of a line that included Johann Strauss and Franz Lehar. video by Charles Smith