Pacific Crest is proud to announce our 2016 program, The Union.
“This is the story of the first transcontinental railroad; the greatest, most daring engineering effort the country had yet seen. Imagine the task.
The idea was to span the west with iron rails and to build a railroad across two-thirds of the continent on some of the most difficult terrain on earth. Not in all that distance, not in 1,700 miles, was there a single settlement of any appreciable size. The railroad would join what essentially were two different countries: California and back East.
They called it a work of giants. But like all great stories, it’s about the people.”
– David McCulloch, “The Iron Road” for The American Experience, PBS
Using current music and unique textures, this five-part program will explore a modernized twist on one of America’s biggest historical accomplishments. Not only did the railroad connect the East and West, it connected people and created a Union, one spike at a time.
REPERTOIRE
Foundry
Original Work
by John Meehan, Pete Lucero, Brian Dinkel
Working
Aha!
by Imogen Heap
Space Between
Fix You
by Coldplay (Jonathan Mark Buckland, William Champion, Christopher Anthony, John Martin, Guy Rupert Berryman)
Engine
Original Work
by Pete Lucero, Brian Dinkel
Train
Point Blank
by Paul Dooley
Last Train Home
by Patrick Metheny
