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.

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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

The West Edge String Quartet and Ko-Eun Lee, the 2010 Wideman winner, in concert Saturday May 21, 7:30 PM

The Wideman Piano Competition
and Dr. Lester Senter Wilson

present

A Special Event Concert!

Ko-Eun Lee, piano

Winner of the 2010 Wideman Competition

and 

The West Edge String Quartet

Kermit Poling, Elizabeth O'Bannon, violins

Borys Smolaga, viola,

Ruth Drummond, 'cello

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Chopin: Four Scherzos

Schumann: Piano Quintet

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Saturday, May 21, 2011 7:30 pm

First Baptist Church of Shreveport

Frost Chapel

543 Ockley Drive

Free concert

A gift to the public!!

Reception following the concert at

The Symphony House

Do come!

STAY TUNED FOR CONCERT and RECEPTION PHOTOS

a remarkable chamber concert and if you missed it . . . .

Ko-Eun Lee - Four Chopin Scherzos

West Edge String Quartet with Ko-Eun Lee - The Schumann Piano Quintet

violinist Kermit Poling

violinist Elizabeth O'Bannon

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violist Borys Smolaga

 

'cellist Ruth Drummond

Ko-Eun Lee

Ko-Eun Lee, Ruth Drummond, Kermit Poling, Elizabeth O'Bannon and Borys Smolaga

Lester Senter Wilson and Ko-Eun Lee with friends at the after-concert reception

serving the wine - Jim Gardner

La Wanda Blakeney and friend

The Shreveport Symphony ends its 2010-2011 season with Brahms, Dvorak and Smetana

European Classics

with

The Shreveport Symphony Orchestra

Michael Butterman, Music Director

Rachel Barton Pine - guest solo violinist

Riverview Theatre 7:30 PM

Smetana - Three Dances from The Bartered Bride

Brahms - Violin Concerto in D Major

soloist - Rachel Barton Pine

Intermission

Dvorak - Symphony No. 7 in d minor

ALTYSO (ARK-LA-TEX-YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA) presents its spring side by side concert with the professional musicians of the Ark-La-Tx

Monday evening May 16, 2011, the ALTYSO will present its annual spring concert at Byrd High School Auditorium 7:00 PM. Beverly Houston conducts the Sinfonia and Chrisropher Allen will conduct the ALTYSO and the side by side  orchestra.Many of these students are taught by our own local professional musicians who play in the various orchestras in our community - Shreveport Symphony, Longview Symphony, Marshall Symphony, Texarkana Symphony and the South Arkansas Symphony.

Also referred to as the side-by-side concert, these student musicians from area schools who audition to become a part of this orchestra, play a segment conducted by their music director Chris Allen and then are joined by professional musicians from the ARK-LA-TEX for the side-by-side portion of the concert. Having participated as a player in these concerts for many years now, at the old EXPO Hall, the Red River Parkway venue and more recently at Byrd High School, I am aware how important this concert is to these students and to the future of our orchestras. These are the future players of and the audience for classical music.

See my post on Robert Trudeau's Shreveport blog.

www.shreveport.blogspot.com

Following are some photos from our rehearsal May 9 in the Byrd band hall.

ALTYSO music director Christopher Allen conducting the side-by-side orchestra

in the Byrd band hall

Concert photos May 16

More photos to follow