Shreveport Opera - Le Tragedie de Carmen - Saturday Feb 4, 2012 - Riverview Theater @ 7:30 PM

Shreveport Opera's 2nd presentation of its current opera season brings to you the opera Carmen in an adaptation by Peter Brook. Born in London in March, 1925, Brook is famous for both his pioneering work in the cinema and in the theater with productions such as The Beggar's Opera, Lord of the Flies, The Marat-Sade and King Lear.

This Chamber version of Carmen revisits the original Prosper Merimee novella with more emphasis on the story line and less on the spectacular production Bizet created for large orchestra, a huge cast, chorus and dancers. The Brook adaptation has been condensed to 80 - 90 minutes, much shorter than Bizet's original 3 hour Carmen.

Shreveport Opera's production consists of 8 cast members accompanied in the pit by a chamber ensemble.

The Cast members - La Tragedie de Carmen

Carmen - Eliza Bonet

Michaela - Rachel Hall

Don Jose - Cody Austin

Escamillo - Robert Mellon

Zuniga - John Goddard

Lillias Pastia - Dean Anthony

The Witch - Jenifer Akins

Garcia - Luke Sexton

- The Conductor -

Kostis Protopapas

- The Chamber Ensemble -

The Shreveport Symphony Orchestra

For ticket info. and a synopsis of the story line, please, visit Shreveport Opera's website

http://shreveopera.org/operas.html 

318.227.9503

Caddo Magnet High School Orchestra presents its Student Concerto Concert Thursday Jan. 26, 2012

Director Elaine Webb and concertmaster John Keene

Director Elaine Webb and the Caddo Magnet High School Orchestra present their annual Concerto Program Thursday January 26th, 2012. The evening event held in the CMHS Performing Arts Center @ 6:30 PM is free and open to the public. The strings of the orchestra plus additional wind, brass and percussion players from the school and local professional musicians, accompany these students in a movement from well known concertos by Mozart, Saint-Saen, Mendelssohn, Faure' and Boccherini.

Concerto Soloists are Kyle Davis, Elijah Ash, Emily Felty, Jacob Wheeler, Hammong Lake, David Newtown, Matthew Pass, John Keene and Eliot Haas.

Elaine Webb is a violinist with the Shreveport Symphony and other area professional orchestras.

Orchestra members and soloists rehearse Wednesday evening.

Enjoy an evening of classical music provided by our own talented students.

 

Moi and my Rauch

Baroque Artists of Shreveport at St Marks Cathedral Sunday Jan. 15, 2012 @ 3:00 PM

BAS will present another performance in its series of Baroque Concerts this Sunday Jan. 15 at St Marks Cathedral in Shreveport. 3:00 PM

From the blog of Robert Trudeau:

" . . . . . Concertos from Bach, Buxtehude, Handel, Telemann and Vivaldi will be performed by the Baroque Artists of Shreveport on Sun, Jan 15, 3 pm. This concert features 11 professional musicians, says Ruth Drummond.

Horace English, bass-baritone, Sally Horak, flute, Theresa Zale Bridges, oboe, Douglas Bakenhus, bassoon, Laura Crawford, violin, Dan Santelices, violin, Elizabeth Grondin, violin, Ruth Drummond, cello and Gay Grosz and Cathy DeRousse, harpsichord-continuo. . . . . . . "

sjwr  . . . . . One of the perks I look forward to at St Marks is the "concert in the round" seating in the choir loft from which one can get an up close and personal view of the concert artists.

See you there on Sunday
the performance is free and open to the public

St Marks Cathedral
1-15-2012
by sjwr

harpsichordist Gay Grosz

'cellist Ruth Drummond

Doug Bakenhus on Baroque Bassoon

violinist Elizabeth Grondin and Horace English

harpsichordist Cathy DeRousse

flutist Sally Horak



Bass/Baritone Horace English

Shreveport's Robert Trudeau enjoying the music - violinist Dan Santelices and bassoonist Doug Bakenhus



The Liliens

bassoonist Dr. Douglas Bakenhus and Robert Trudeau discussing Baroque?



Matthew Philips and friend

Audience members may sit in the Cathedral Choir loft (as well as in the traditional church seating area) for a spectacular view of the artists!



BAS Concertmaster Laura Crawford

A very young violin student and his mom

The Shreveport Symphony presents Brahms and Brahms Jan. 21, 2012

From Norman Krieger website

**SSO Program update - the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Michael Butterman  in a tribute to our founding Music Director and Conductor, Maestro John Shenaut, who past away last month at the age of 95, will offer Movement IX from Elgar's Enigma Variations - "Nimrod".

Michael Butterman 

Brahms and Brahms together warms my heart and so they will again Saturday evening January 21 at downtown Riverview Theatre. World renown pianist Norman Krieger plays Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Music Director Michael Butterman and following intermission the orchestra sings with Brahms Symphony No. 2.



 
 7:30 PM performance

concert tickets at

Shreveport Symphony com 

or

318.222.TUNE



After the concert with my sister Laura and her friend Melinda who drove in from Ft Worth


















Brahms colleagues - ' cellists Claudia Sullivan, Belinda Viesca, Pam Martin and violist Shane Almenderez