Dress rehearsal and performance with the Texarkana Symphony Orchestra March 27, 2010

TSO "Carmina Burana" soloists - tenor William Parsons, soprano Candace Taylor and baritone Tom Irwin - with Board of Director's President Remica Gray and Music Director Marc-Andre Bougie

 Congratulations to all the musicians and the many participating choirs for a super performance! And, thank you, sponsors.

Susan W. Rogers - photographer

The choirs, chorales and choruses

Texarkana Regional Chorale

Texarkana College Choir

Shreveport Chorale

Veritas Academy Treble Chorus

Board President Remica Gray and concert sponsor

Dr. George W. English, III - members of the chorale

MORE TSO Musicians (see previous TSO blog)

protecting your hearing

Lunch break at the Dixie Grill on State Line - good home cooking and a bit of wall nostalgia

Pre-Concert preview with Marc-Andre Bougie

a look at two German composers, Carl Orff and Richard Wagner

There will be 175 instrumentalists and singers on this stage

- - - - Time for the show to begin - - - -

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Texarkana Symphony and Chorale present Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" March 27

"Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff coming to Texarkana Saturday March 27 7:30 PM at the Perot Theatre. With the Texarkana Symphony Orchestra, the Texarkana Regional Chorale, Texarkana College Choir, the Shreveport Chorale and the Veritas Academy Treble Chorus, it promises to be "the" grand finale to the 2009-2010 season. Vocal soloists are:

Candace Taylor - Soprano

William Parsons - Tenor

Tom Irwin - Baritone

Marc-Andre Bougie, Music Director

Concert preview at 6:45 PM

http://www.texarkanasymphony.org/ for tickets

903.792.4992 for tickets

In rehearsal for Orff's Carmina Burana and Wagner's The Meistersinger

Susan W. Rogers - photographer

baritone Tom Irwin and soprano Candace Taylor

choirs in rehearsal

"Carmina" Soloists William Parsons, Candace Taylor, Tom Irwin

singers from the Veritas Academy Treble Chorus

The choirs

the Carmina men's sextet

'Cellist Pam Martin

TSO Principal Trumpet Clayton Harris

trombonist Ed Grissom and brass

horn player Craig Pratt and bassist Les Sellers

Three keyboardists - Mary Scott Goode and Amanda Roberts on piano

Music Director Marc-Andre Bougie - pre-concert review