The Texarkana Youth Symphony joined with its mentor, the Texarkana Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Marc-Andre Bougie, to play the second of two educational concerts for Texarkana area students last Wednesday morning January 16, 2013. Among the pieces played by both orchestras side by side were excerpts from the opera Carmen, the ballet Nutcracker and Jean Sibelius' Finlandia.
Combined brass players from both orchestras began the second concert with "Flourish for Brass Band by Ralph Vaughn Williams. The TSO Woodwind Quintet played the second movement from Carl Nielsen's Woodwind Quintet. The TSO pounded through Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in Cm, 1st movement, the sound of fate knocking on the door of the Perot theatre (so to speak).
To round out the earlier concert for younger students, actors Michael Boudewyns and Sara Valentine illustrated the story of Babar the Little Elephant in mime with the TSO playing Francis Poulenc's wonderful score.
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| TYSO percussion section - great job, guys and young lady |
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| TYSO tubist Jackson Sewell |
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| TSO Woodwind Quintet |
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 TYSO members - horn players Mason Rostollan and Will Reed, a very nice job on the 3rd and 4th horn parts with TSO |
moi and my Rauch
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| My hosts' dog "Sooner", a Cavalier - love her eyes |
One of my favorite sandwich shops in Texarkana
TYSO members - horn players Mason Rostollan and Will Reed, a very nice job on the 3rd and 4th horn parts with TSO
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