Jazz/Blues at 2Johns 2nite - 5-3-2012 Chris, Winston and george

Join Chris Allen, Winston Hall and George Hancock at 2Johns tonight for a Thursday May 3rd treat - Jazz and Blues - 6-10 PM.

with Special guest George Hancock - flute/pic/sax

Music Memory with the Shreveport Symphony - Sunday April 29, 2012 at the downtown Convention Center

I knew where it was located, of course, but I had not been inside the new Shreveport Convention Center since its construction a few years ago. Parking was easy since it was Sunday and all nearby pay lots were closed, but with the gates open, I along with many others secured a safe niche for my car. After traversing a huge pothole (more like a sink-hole) that couldn't be missed at the entrance of one lot just across the street from the front entrance, I grabbed my horn gear out of my Volvo V70 and crossed the street to take a flight of stairs down to the main level and one of several entrances. WOW!  Carpet on the floor, huge space in the foyer filled with bright lights and colors and inside the main hall hundreds of smiling kids and families enjoying the annual ArtBreak Festival.

A special stage had been built for the Shreveport Symphony's Music Memory program. Unlike previous years in which our smaller Music Memory orchestra performed for this area event involving the school children of Caddo and Bossier Parishes to test their musical knowledge, this larger symphonic orchestra was set to play a wide variety of musical favorites from the operatic, Broadway, Dance and orchestral genre, from Bernstein to Haydn, Brahms to Beethoven and Mozart. Students from the various elementary schools had been working hard all year to identify and name 17 pieces of music. Sound easy? The trick is that they are allowed to hear only two measures or so of each piece. (YOU should try it sometime). Extra credit is given for naming the composer. Conductor and narrator was SSO Music Director Michael Butterman.

The winners of this year's Shreveport Symphony Music Memory competition are listed below:

3rd Grade Winners

all Eden Gardens students

1st place - London Holmes

2nd place - Sarah Holt

3rd place - Nylah Tolliver

4th/5th Grade winners

1st place - 3 winners - Laya Tammala, Nichalas Irwin from Eden Gardens and Casey Tonnier from Apollo

2nd place - Emily Watson from Apollo

3rd place - Lugene Davis from Eden Gardens

My congratulations to all of the students who entered this competition, to the schools who sponsored them, and to the long hours and hard work of the Shreveport Arts organizations for continuing to highlight the arts in our community. BRAVO!

The Shreveport Symphony Orchestra

an old buddy of mine from Shreveport Symphony 1990's  - former SSO EXEC Director Corrie Mason

the Shreveport Convention Center

SSO 2011 - 2012 season ends with the lyrical and the bombastic

The Shreveport Symphony ends its current season on Saturday April 28 and two orchestra members end their seasons with the SSO, Concertmaster Kermit Poling and Judy Kleinhans Causey, 4th Horn. SSO Music Director Michael Butterman chose well in this the final Masterworks concert of the 2011-2012 season. All sections of the orchestra will be featured in the four pieces to be presented.

Candide Overture .... Bernstein

Violin Concerto, Op. 14 .... S. Barber

Kermit Poling, violinist

Intermission

Symphony No. 2 in D-flat Major (“Romantic”).... Hanson

The Glory and the Grandeur .... R. Peck

with SSO percussionists Chandler Teague, 

Anthony Robinson and Douglas Parmelee

Saturday April 28, 2012

@ Riverview Theater

concert time 7:30 PM

for tickets 

318.222.tune

Kermit Poling - Concertmaster

Judy Kleinhans Causey - 4th Horn - 50 years in the SSO

Chan, Doug and Anthony - SSO Percussion Trio

Masterworks Series - April 2012

rehearsal party break for Judy and Kermit

Michael, Jon and Steve

Ah - Woodwinders - mmmmm . . . .  wine and cheese, so good for the reeds and pads

J Mark and Judy

Michael Butterman, Judy, Lois Robinson and Kermit

Anthony, Sandra, Art and Tom P.

Judy and Craig

Susan (moi) and Judy

Friends since Jr. High School at Lakeshore, Fair Park High School and Centenary College

Concert photos

SSO Trumpet section - Pr. Rick Rowell, Richard Watson, Michael Scarlato and Douglas Lockard

SSO Horn section - Craig Pratt, Pr. Thomas Hundemer, Kristine Coreil, Judy Causey, Susan W Rogers

SSO Lower Brass

Steve Curtis, Tuba; J.Mark Thompson, Jonathan Hinton, Pr Michael Davidson

SSO Assistant Concertmaster Elizabeth O'Bannon and Concertmaster Kermit Poling

after concert reception featuring cake and Champagne

My friend Galina

Laura and Ed Crawford and Dr. Morgan

Bassist Chris Allen and Dorothy Rivette

a few more photos to follow

The combined choirs of Cypress Baptist and First Baptist Churches of Bossier City present "Hymns Revived" with the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra

Hymns Revived, a selection of old time gospel hymns arranged and/or written and orchestrated by composer Philip T. Wade, Music Director at Cypress Baptist Church, was presented Sunday evening April 22, 2012 at Cypress Baptist Church by The Shreveport Symphony Orchestra and the combined choirs and soloists of Cypress Baptist Church and First Baptist Church of Bossier City.

Having been born into a musical family I cut my teeth listening to old time gospel music, symphonic music on the radio (there was no TV then) and the latest in the Your Hit Parade favorites with The Andrews Sisters, The McGuire Sisters, The Ames Brothers. I have fond and loving memories of the many churches in which I sang both here and in the Dallas/Ft Worth area with my two sisters (and occasionally my brother as he grew older) as the Whipple Sisters with my mom at the piano as we belted out songs like Give Me That Old Time Religion and Amazing Grace in churches or revival tents filled with folks who clapped and sang along with us.

I congratulate all those involved in this presentation today with my special thanks to Mr. Philip Wade for his inspired orchestrations. 

Cypress Baptist Church Music Minister Philip Wade

electric bassist - Steve Singletary

Beginning rehearsal

Texarkana Symphony Orchestra closes 2011-2012 season with Bravo Broadway Saturday April 21

Texarkana Symphony's 2011-2012  season comes to a close Saturday evening April 21 with Bravo Broadway

for Tickets call the Perot Theater

@ 903.792.4992

poster from the TSO website

rehearsal and after performance photos

Les Cors de la Louisiane in recital at ULM Wed. 4-18 and Centenary College Thurs. 4-19-2012

Les Cors de la Louisiane will be in recital Thursday evening 7:30 PM at Anderson Auditorium on the Centenary College Campus. 

4-19-2012


See below for ULM info.

Dr. Kristine Coreil, Craig Pratt, Thomas Hundemer,  Dr. James Boldin

ULM concert

On Wednesday, April 18, the Northeast Louisiana Horn Ensemble will present its annual concert at 7:30pm in the Emy-Lou Biedenharn Recital Hall.  Now in its fifth season, the ensemble is conducted by Dr. James Boldin, an assistant professor of music at ULM.  The group is composed of current ULM music students, community members, and area high school students.  Highlights of the program include an arrangement of theme music from the motion picture Silverado, composed by Bruce Broughton, and several other original and arranged works for horn ensemble.

Also featured on this concert is Les Cors de la Louisiane, a horn quartet made up of university faculty and professional musicians from North Louisiana. Members are Dr. James Boldin (ULM), Dr. Kristine Coreil (NSU, Shreveport Symphony), Thomas Hundemer (Centenary College, Shreveport Symphony), and Craig Pratt (Shreveport Symphony). The quartet will perform several selections on the second half of the program. 

PROGRAM for Les Cors de la Louisiane on Thursday at Centenary College

Entrance Fanfare by Robert Dickow

Quartet, Opus 38 by Friedrich Homilius

Three English Madrigals arr. by Marvin Howe

Ghost Town Parade by Kerry Turner

INTERVAL

 Five Miniatures by C. D. Wiggins

Three Movements for Four Horns by Kerry Turner

Fuge in C- Mol by J.S. Bach