Shreveport Summer Music Festival Orchestra in concert Monday evening 5-30-2011 at FBC

An orchestra of 60 musicians will take the stage Monday night at First Baptist Church, Shreveport, for a free Memorial Day concert dedicated to longtime conductor of the Shreveport Summer Music Festival Orchestra Maestro Sydney Harth who passed away earlier this year. On the program will be the Elgar "Enigma Variations", Mozart's Symphony No. 25, the Louisiana premier of "No Sound of Trumpet nor roll of Drum - Reflections on the Civil War" by Kermit Poling and two arias sung by Icy Simpson, the gifted and talented soprano whom I first heard sing a couple of months ago.

Conducting the orchestra will be Maestros Leonard Kacenjar, Music Director for the Marshall Symphony and SSMF, and composer/violinist Kermit Poling, Music Director for the South Arkansas Symphony and General Manager of local Public Radio station KDAQ.

- FREE -

SSMF orchestra concert FBC sanctuary, Shreveport

Monday May 30, 2011

7:00 PM

beginning rehearsals at FBC

Kermit Poling rehearsing strings for "Enigma Variations"

Leonard Kacenjar watching "Enigma" string rehearsal

violist Marcus Rose in background

Russell, Mary Eilene, David

Leonard Kacenjar

conducting Mozart 25 - great piece

hornist Brian Brown - "Nor roll of Drum . . . . ."

violist Zackery Grant

violinists Joe Cooper and Michelle Perminter

violinist Robert Schaumberg

Julee Walker, Principal Flute and Denette McDermott 2nd Flute/Piccolo

clarinetist Tom Phillips

Principal Bass Chris Allen

SSMF Concertmaster Tyrone Greive

Principal Percussionist Chandler Teague experimenting with various sounds on the timpani with conductor Kermit Poling listening in

violinist Jenny Torres

soprano soloist - Icy Simpson

CONCERT PHOTOS

Kermit Poling " . . . nor Roll of Drum"

Narrator Archie McDonald - Stephen F. Austin State University

Narrator Gale Beil - Marshall, TX journalist

INTERMISSION

L-R 1st violinists - Diana Norwood, Angela Russell, Dan Santelices

 Bassist

 bassists Ben Carter and Chris Allen

 violists Principal Ruth Morrow, Mario Torres and Shane Almendarez

Concertmaster Tyrone Greive and Assistant Concertmaster Elizabeth O'Bannon

Music Director for SSMF Leonard Kacenjar

 Ms. Icy Simpson - singing Mozart and Gershwin - Leonard Kacenjar conducting -

a standing ovation

SSMF Horn section

4th Horn, Judy Causey - 2nd Horn Susan W Rogers - 3rd horn Eric Branscome - Principal, Brian Brown

SSMF Brass

Trombones - Principal Mark Thompson, 2nd Jeff Parker, Bass Terry Hopkins, - Tuba ?
Trumpets - Principal, Michael Scarlato and 2nd, Douglas Lockard