Encore Episode 324: Four Masques

Popular among the English nobility in the 16th and 17th century, a masque was a form of amateur dramatic entertainment performed by masked players. Composers too have taken to writing music for the masque and by extension, the masquerade. This week at the gathering place for people who love band music, we explore this masked music, incognito.

​Masquerade for Band, Op. 102
  Vincent Persichetti
  North Texas Wind Symphony,
  Eugene Migliaro Corporon
Twelfth Night (A Musical Masque after Shakespeare)
  Alfred Reed
  Senzoku Gakuen Symphonic Wind Orchestra,
​  Alfred Reed
Little Masquerade Suite
  Johan Halvorsen
  Keystone Wind Ensemble, John R. Bourgeois
Masquerade Suite
  Aram Ilyich Khachaturian
  UNLV Wind Orchestra, Thomas Leslie