Acadiana Symphony presents "real video games" concert Sat Jan 27, 2013

Something a little different is in store for those who attend VIDEO GAMES LIVE at the Heyman Performing Arts Center, Lafayette, LA. on Jan. 27. 

Mariusz Smolij is Acadiana Symphony Music Director

Video Games Live

Concert Date: 27-Jan-2013

A video game multimedia concert experience! #1 touring game concert in the world comes to Lafayette! Created and produced by game industry legend Tommy Tallarice. Pre-show event with Guitar Hero competition (winner to perform on stage during the performance) & costume contest! Post-show meet and greet free to all ticket holders! Special VIP Backstage Experience packages available. Join us on Facebook or VideoGamesLive.com.

Sunday, January 27, 2012
6:30 pm
Pre-concert activities begin at 5:00
Heymann Performing Arts Center

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Arkansas Symphony Orchestra plays Ancient Airs and Dances Saturday January 26 and Sunday January 27, 2013

Saturday January 26 and Sunday January 27, The Arkansas Symphony plays Ancient Airs and Dances by Resphigi , Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme with 'cellist David Gerstein and Beethoven's Symphony No. 2, both concerts at the Robinson Center.

The Robinson Center, Little Rock

Guest Conductor Guillermo Figueroa

Saturday concert at 8:00 PM

Sunday Concert 3:00 PM

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Mardi Gras Celebration in Longview to benefit the Longview Symphony Saturday Feb 2, 2013

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Mardi Gras Celebration
Saturday, February 2, 2013
7:30 - 11:30 pm

Maude Cobb Convention Center
100 Grand Blvd. |  Longview, TX 75604

Your $65 ticket includes:

Two Live Bands!

(Atchafalaya Brass Band Society and Bone Dancers with Zydeco)

Parade!
Antique Car Show!

Beads, Beads, Beads!

Dancing!

Authentic Cajun Dining!
(Catered by Dudley's)

Tea and Coffee!
(Beer and Wine available for purchase)
Silent Auction with Great Stuff!

Proceeds benefit the Longview Symphony

Buy your tickets online or by phone!

longviewsymphony.org or  903-236-9739

LONGVIEW SYMPHONY  |  P.O. BOX 1825
LONGVIEW, TX 75606

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Texarkana Symphony and Texarkana Youth Symphony play together for school educational concerts January 16, 2013

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.

TYSO percussion section - great job, guys and young lady

TYSO tubist Jackson Sewell

TSO Woodwind Quintet

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

My hosts' dog "Sooner", a Cavalier - love her eyes

One of my favorite sandwich shops in Texarkana

ULM calls to me again. Time for work study with James Boldin 1-2013

More later. Must get back to the Green Bay/49'er game then practice. I think my husband I just watched the Super Bowl game a little early this year - Baltimore and Denver. What a fabulous game! Came down to double ovt. and Baltimore won it 38-35. That game could not be beaten for excitement and true tenacious grit!
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Along my route to Monroe this trip I noticed how the recent rains have re-energized the ponds and creeks on the acres and acres of rolling  land on either side of I-20 East giving them a refreshed feeling. A beautiful, sunny mid - 70's afternoon felt so good for a change, hawks circling in the upper winds above, not too much traffic on the road. Longview Symphony playing on KDAQ radio.

Low Horn studies are not fun, but a necessary evil for those of us who long to sing melodic lines in the upper register. Ah, the melody line which is the core of music for me with all its variant harmonies is what I grew up hearing in my home - symphonies, operas, ballets - but on the radio and on my parents' old 78 recordings played on a phonograph, not on TV.

Imagine my surprise when suddenly at the age of 6 I discovered there were other melodic lines mixed in with this one line - the harmonies - and I could hear them and sing along and make up my own melodies as did my sisters and brother later. My parents, musicians themselves, were elated and many an evening was spent standing around my mom at the old upright piano belting out popular tunes, gospel, Christmas carols and church music in the days before the advent of rock 'n roll and Elvis Presley.

Don't get me wrong, I got to sing the bottom part once in a while and sometimes the lead or the upper part, but playing low horn is a little different. I hear it, but the lips have to hear it as well. And therein is what I have to teach my lips, how to play what I sing.

to be continued . . . . . .

(BAS) Baroque Artists of Shreveport - Sunday January 20, 2013 at St Marks Cathedral

From BAS member, Dan Santelices:

Baroque Artists of Shreveport

Featuring bass vocalist, Horace English and oboist, Theresa Zale Bridges in a performance of Bach: Cantata No. 82 "Ich habe genug".

The concert includes

G.P. Telemann's Paris Quartet No. 1 in G-major for Flute, Violin

 Violoncello and Basso Continuo

Jean-Marie Leclair's Sonata No. 5 in E-minor for

2 violins

John Ernest Galliard's Sonata No. 3 in F-major for Bassoon and Basso Continuo

Godrey Finger's Sonata in C, Op. 5 No. 10 for Oboe, Bassoon and Basso continuo

In addition to English and Zale-Bridges, the other member of the BAS for this concert are:

Sally Horak, Flute

Douglas Bakenhus, Bassoon

Laura Crawford and Dan Santelices, Violin

Ruth Drummond, Violoncello-continuo

Cathy DeRousse and Irina Nedelcu, Harpsichord-continuo

3:00 PM at St Marks Episcopal Cathedral

THIS CONCERT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra starts the new year with Bravo 3 Jan. 16

From the Mississippi Symphony website

Selby & Richard McRae Foundation

Bravo Series - Bravo III: Dvorak’s Seventh

7:30 PM, Saturday, January 12, 2013

Company by American Philip Glass, the foremost composer of the attractive minimalist style, is partnered with music inspired by two dramatic European settings – the beauty of Dvorak’s Bohemian countryside and the breathtaking majesty of Sibelius’ Finland.  27 year-old rising star violinist Bella Hristova, has wowed audiences at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and The Kennedy Center.

Pre-concert lecture, 6:45-7:15, at the Mississippi Museum of Art (free; cash bar)

MSO Music Director Crafton Beck

                          

Tickets to all Mississippi Symphony Orchestra concerts may be purchased through the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra box office. In addition, the box office will be open on the day of each concert at the concert venue one hour prior to concert time. You may also purchase tickets online.

If you have any questions, please email info@msorchestra.com.

BOX OFFICE LOCATION AND HOURS:

Address:
201 East Pascagoula St (inside the Mississippi Arts Center)
Jackson, MS 39201

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Hours:
Monday - Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Phone:601.960.1565

Longview Symphony opens its Chamber Series Tuesday, Jan. 22 with pianist Anton Kuerti

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

5:45 Dinner (see below)

6:00 Doors Open

7:30 Concert

Longview Community Center

from the LSO website

Anton Kuerti, 

Pianist Anton Kuerti was born in Austria, grew up in the U.S., and has lived in Canada for more than 35 years. He has won awards from several prestgious organizations and performed with more than 50 orchestras globally. Kuerti is one of today’s most recorded artists, and we are excited to share his talent with concert-goers near and far.

As you know, the Longview Symphony takes "requests" and performs People's Choice compositions. Kuerti, too, will be performing composers that concert-goers have requested.

This will be a “once in a lifetime experience.”

Sonata in A minor (Mozart)
Waldstein Sonata (Beethoven)
Sonata in G minor (Schumann)


Make a night at the Longview Community Center on January 22, starting at 5:45. For $35 prix fixe, enjoy several courses:

Choice of Salad or Appetizer:

• Classic Caesar Salad or
• Seafood Sausage on a Crostini with Tomato Beurre Blanc

Choice of Entree:

• Chicken Breast Stuffed with Fresh Goat Cheese and Arugula with Chardonnay Jus, Nutted Wild Rice, and Ratatouille or
• Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Fig-Marsala Jus, Creamy Polenta with Wild Mushroom Ragout, and Pan-Seared Haricots Verts

At intermission, enjoy dessert for an additional fee:

• Petite Flourless Chocolate and Raspberry Cake or
• Mediterranean Orange Cake

Beverages include Regular and Decaf Coffee, Hot Chocolate, and Bottled Water.

The Texarkana Symphony presents its second in a series of three Chamber Music programs January 22, 2013

From the TSO website . . . .  the TSO Chamber Series continues on January 22, 2013 at The Texarkana Convention Center, Ballroom B.

THE WEST EDGE STRING QUARTET

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Something a little different!!. 

Tuesday, January 22, 2012

Mark your calendar March 5 for concert number three

photo by susan w rogers 

Texarkana Symphony Orchestra - concerts for students Wednesday January 16 at the Perot

STUDENT CONCERTS AT THE PEROT

Each January, the TSO performs two concerts especially for students. A special concert for Elementary grades is the perfect way to expose young music-lovers to the instrumental "families" of the orchestra in a live symphony performance. A second concert, complete with informative remarks from the Maestro, brings the classics to life for Middle and High School Students.

Program: The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant

January 16, 2013 - 9:30am and 12:30 pm

from the TSO website

(recommended for grades 1 - 6)

Marc-André Bougie, conducting

Michael Boudewyns & Sara Valentine, guest performers

Pack your trunks! The Texarkana Symphony Orchestra invites you to Babar's coronation! Jean de Brunhoff's popular children's story of one little elephant's epic rise from rags to riches is eloquently set to music by Francis Poulenc, and expressively re-imagined with all the enthusiasm and pomp worthy of a royal gathering. Long live King Babar!

Tickets are $5 per student.

Reservations are required

Call TSO at 870-773-3401 for more information.

East Texas Symphony presents "Shall we Dance" Sat. Jan 12, 2013 - two performances

Photos from the ETSO webpage

      Jean-Francoise Rivest steps to the podium at the Tyler Cowen Center as guest conductor for the East Texas Symphony Orchestra's "Shall we Dance" with a one hour Saturday Family Matinee at 2:00 PM and a full length concert at 7:30 PM. Saturday, January 12. 

Tickets are available at 903.566.7424

 or online @

ETSO tickets

Evening program

Bernstein - Westside Story: Symphonic Dances

Gould - Tap Dance Concerto

Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2

Borodin - Polovetsian Dances

Family Matinee program

Prokofiev -  "Montagues and the Capulets" from Suite No. 2

Gould - Tap Dance Concerto

Bernstein - West Side Story: Symphonic Dances

     Max Pollack, tap dancer.

A very Happy New Year to all my blog friends