A Far Cry Presents: American Noir

American Noir is a program about optimism that arises in very dark times. It is also a program about immigrants. This concert is made up primarily of music by Jewish immigrants who fled antisemitism in Europe and settled in Southern California, where their style set the tone for a generation of film music that still resonates in the high production value television series and films we watch today. Continue your Halloween celebrations with A Far Cry as we perform pieces such as Bernard Herrmann’s “Psycho Suite,” and much more…

Franz Waxman
Sinfonietta for Strings and Timpani

Barber’s Adagio in Context:

George Walker
Lyric for String Orchestra

Vivian Fine
Piece for Muted Strings (Elegiac Song)

Igor Stravinsky
Double Canon (Raoul Dufy in Memoriam)

Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings

Bernard Herrmann
Psycho Suite

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Symphonic Serenade, Op. 39