DESCRIPTION:
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