Acadiana Symphony Orchestra celebrates Disney - Saturday November 9, 2013

From the Acadiana Symphony Webpage

Bo and Jerry Ramsay present Disney's FANTASIA sponsored by IBERIABank

Masterwork Concert No.3
9-Nov-2013 at 4 pm

Music Director Muriusz Smolij

Heymann Performing Arts Center

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Fantasia 2000--Groundbreaking marriage of symphonic music and animation! Disney movie projected on a large screen with the original soundtrack performed by your Acadiana Symphony Orchestra including selections by Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Debussy, and Respighi.

Pre-Concert VIP Party for Children--musical games, dancing, face painting, and cookies & milk with a real princess and other special guests! Come dressed as your favorite princess, prince or friendly character.

Special thanks to our sponsors: Bo & Jerry Ramsay

   

  

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra's Beethoven & Bluejeans Saturday November 9 and 10, 2013

Beethoven & Blue Jeans

From the ASO website

Location: Robinson Center Music Hall (directions)
Price Range: $14 - $53 

Philip Mann, conductor

Inbal Segev, cello

November 9, 2013                                                      
Saturday at 8:00 PM                                               

Johann Strauss’s Overture to Die Fledermaus
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4
Friedrich Gulda's Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra                                                                   
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November 10, 2013
Sunday at 3:00 PM

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Waco Symphony in concert Saturday evening November 9, 2013

FROM the Waco Symphony webpage

 John Sharp,Principal cellist Chicago Symphony in concert

Sat. November 9, 2013
7:30 p.m.

with Music Director/Conductor Stephen Heyde

 All concerts will be held in Waco Hall on the Baylor University campus.

Waco native John Sharp—principal cellist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1986—returns home for a special performance

Principal Sponsor:
Ambassador & Mrs. Lyndon Olson, Jr.

Associate Sponsors:
Mr. & Mrs. Robin Baird
Mr. & Mrs. Ray Deaver

Section Sponsor:
American Bank

GINASTERA

Four Dances from Estancia ELGAR

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra

With a tribute to the 150th Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address

254-754-0851  —  Fax: 254-752-8611 info@wacosymphony.com Mailing address:
P.O. Box 1201, Waco, TX 76703 Office:
600 Austin Ave., Suite 10, Waco, TX
in the St. Charles Place, corner of Sixth St.
and Austin Ave., facing Sixth St. Office Hours:
M-Th 9:00-12:00 and 1:00-4:30 • F 9:00-1:00

Classics in Film Saturday November 2, 2013 7:30 pm UT Tyler Cowan Center

November 2 , 2013 , 7:30 p.m.

Location

UT Tyler Cowan Center 

FROM the ETSO Website 

 East Texas Classics in Film

 

Order your subscription online or call 903-566-7424.

Download a season brochure (pdf).

Download a subscription order form (pdf). 

 conductor Richard Lee   soprano Suzie LeBlanc
 
Host Chris Abraham

Program

R Strauss:  Also Sprach Zarathustra

2001: A Space Odyssey

Strauss:  Blue Danube Waltz

2001: A Space Odyssey

Vivaldi:  Nulla in mundo pax sincera

Shine

Handel:  Ombra mai fu

Dangerous Liasons

Rossini:  Una voce poco fa

Citizen Kane

Bartok:  Music for strings, celeste,

              percussion, mvt 3

The Shining

J Williams:  Throne Room/End Credits

Star Wars

Intermission

Mascagni:  Intermezzo Cavalleria Rusticana

Raging Bull

Mozart:  Symphony no. 25 in g, mvt 1

Amadeus

Morricone:  Gabriel’s oboe  

Arr. Hal Leon        The Mission

Gershwin:    Summertime

Porgy & Bess

Arlen:   Somewhere over the Rainbow

The Wizard of Oz

Barber:  Adagio for Strings

Platoon

Rossini:  Barber of Seville Overture

Looney Tunes

*Chris Abraham replaces the previously announced Stewart Smith.

Programming subject to change

Longview Chamber Orchestra concert October 15, 2013

The Longview Chamber Orchestra presented an evening of French Music Tuesday evening October 15 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Longview, TX., Mark Crim conducting with special guests pianists Vicki Conway and Mary Tidwell

Full House

Jeanie - you still look too young

Jason

Doug with Terry in background

Darius and Anthony

Danny, Doug, Terry and conductor Mark Crim

Chris

Rachel

Adam

Conductor Mark Crim who also will be conducting The Longview Symphony Orchestra December Christmas Holiday program with choir and orchestra

 

Mississippi Symphony at Thalia Mara Hall Sat. 10-26-2013 with Classical Mystery tour

From the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra website

Crafton Beck, Music Director

A Tribute to Lennon & McCartney featuring Classical Mystery Tour

7:30 PM, Saturday, October 26, 2013

Thalia Mara Hall

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The MSO under the direction of Maestro Crafton Beck and featuring the Classical Mystery Tour presents A Tribute to Lennon and McCartney. Included in the show are such classics as “Imagine”, “Yesterday”,”Let It Be”, “Across the Universe”, “Jet”, “Live and Let Die”, “All You Need is Love”, and many more. A Tribute to Lennon and McCartney is the best of John Lennon and Paul McCartney like you’ve never heard them before. The show presents songs penned by the dynamic songwriting duo as well as material from their solo years, all performed exactly as they were originally recorded.

You might say it’s the best show Lennon and McCartney never did!

• Sponsors
• Featured Musicians

Sponsors

This evening’s concert is generously sponsored by:

BANCORPSOUTH and C-SPIRE

Longview Symphony Orchestra opens 2013-2014 season with Movies and scary spooks Saturday 10-12-2013

Long night for musicians and LSO Guest Conductor Dr. James Snowden. Very challenging music. No time for many photos. Survival was upmost in our mind.

Very warm reception from the audience.

Rehearsal at Kilgore Middle Schoo

Horn home

Anthony

waiting for the concert

Public Radio - Red River Radio 89.9 FM Fall Fund Drive in Full swing - Jazz musicians live

Bassist Chris Allen, pianists Matt Harris, Winston Hall and drummer Galen Smith smoothed out the jazz last Monday evening from 8-10 pm in KDAQ's new studio at LSU-S on Youree Drive. The Fall Fund Drive is in full swing says Kermit Poling, KDAQ General Manager.

Check out below the drawings every day for free gifts and make your pledge

 Chris Allen

Winston Hall

Matt Harris

Galen Smith

 David Sedaris

From KDAQ website

We will give away A Pair of tickets to see David Sedaris at the Strand each weekday morning at 9 a.m.

Our Fall Fund Drive starts Monday, October 14 and runs through Monday, October 28. Thanks to everyone who made a pledge during cyber day. Please help us move forward during our fall campaign by pledging your support online here or by phone at 800-552-8502. We'll be drawing every weekday morning at 9 am for a pair of tickets to see David Sedaris Live at the Strand. The show takes place at 8 p.m. on Friday, October 25th, 2013.  At the end of the drive we'll draw for an ASUS Laptop computer. During the drive we'll have other drawings and lots of exciting music including Airheart, Steve Howell, Chris McCaa, Tim Chauvin, Chris Allen & Friends, the Mansion Family, Ear Shot Graffiti, and AJ & The Two Tone Blues Band. Pledge now and help support all the shows you love.
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Current Total:                            $111,815

Back online and back to bloging Oct 22, 2013

Coming up

Longview Symphony, Longview Chamber, Red River Radio/KDAQ Fall Fund drive with Chris Allen and friends plus assorted most popular blogs in recent years

Moving and my musicians' blog - taking a break

We are moving so my blog will be taking a vacation while 

we move and settle in to a new place.

The Longview Symphony Orchestra opens its 2013-2014 Season Saturday October 12, 2013 with Movies and Spooks

photo by sjwR

Ready for the LSO new season with three guest conductors?

I am, and the first performance on Saturday October 12 will be a mixture of favorite movie themes, a prelude to the Halloween mystique we look forward to this time of the season plus Wagner and Grieg,

 FROM the Longview Symphony webpage

 Classic Movies and Spooky Tunes

with guest conductor, Dr. James Snowden

Saturday, October 12, 2013, Belcher Center

Opening Notes 6:30 pm; Concert 7:30 pm

Under the baton of guest conductor and founder of the Longview Symphony, Dr. James Snowden, our season opener promises to be a thriller! Featuring orchestral scores from classic movies and repertoire for the orchestra from 19th and 20th century composers whose music portrays those spine-tingling moments in literature, fantasy, and spooky stories, this season opener promises to keep us on the edge of our seats from the opening notes until the finale! Don't miss this gala evening of musical fun, fantasy, and film! 

Program
Single concert ticket prices*
Level A $40
Level B $30
Student $10
*Plus applicable fees per ticket

Order online through the Belcher Center, or by calling the Box Office at 903-233-3080, M-F 10-5.

FROM the Longview Symphony webpage

LSO Program, Oct. 12, 2013

“Classic Movies and Spooky Tunes”

Overture, Der Freischutz…………………………….Carl Maria von Weber

Pirates of the Caribbean………………………………Hans Zimmer

Arr. Ted Ricketts

Symphonic Dances, Op.64, No. 2,3…………………..Edward Greig

Jurassic Park Medley…………………………………John Williams

Prelude to Die Meistersinger…………………………Richard Wagner

********Intermission********

Olympic Fanfare and Theme…………………………John Williams

Dance Macabre……………………………………….Camille Saint-Saens

Band of Brothers, Main Theme………………............Michael Kamen

Arr. Phillipe

Night on Bald Mountain………………………………Modeste Moussorgsky

The Cowboys………………………………………….John Williams

NEWS FLASH - The Arkansas Symphony begins 2013 -14 with a huge BANG - Stravinski's The Rite of Spring, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich

Oh, my goodness! 

Look at the opening season concert by the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra in Little Rock!! Could it get any better? Not hardly! Saturday September 21 and Sunday September 22. Not one, but two opportunities to see and hear a smashup, smashing live performance by the ASO. Performances with some (h)ear catching pieces including pianist Martina Filjak. The brass parts alone should make your hair stand on end. I've played all three pieces and I can readily testify to the hair spray horn parts. :)

But, hey, the string, woodwind, piano, percussion and harp parts are worth your other ear.

Fasten your seatbelts

and do NOT miss it

Shostakovich - Festive Overture, Op. 96

 

Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23

Stravinski - The Rite of Spring - Le Sacre du printemps

FROM the ASO webpage - photo of pianist Martina Filjak with concert ticket information

September 21, 2013 Saturday at 8:00 PM Order Tickets September 22, 2013 Sunday at 3:00 PM Order Tickets

Tchaikovsky & Rite of Spring Location: Robinson Center Music Hall (directions) Price Range: $14 - $53 Philip Mann, conductor Martina Filjak, piano

Marshall Symphony Orchestra - Jeans 'n Classics 2013 and next season ??

A Big question for which I have no answer!!

Does anyone know the answer? I don't.

I truly have no idea why I have not been asked to play Marshall Symphony Orchestra's annual Jeans 'N Classics concert in the square this September nor why I haven't received a contract for the MSO 2013-2014 Season as I have in previous years.

I am completely and totally in the dark and have received no answers from either MSO management or the music director despite several queries requesting information.

Susan

srogershorn2@yahoo.com

I am happy to speak with you personally

Thank you very much,

Susan W Rogers 

We are moving to another home - only our 5th home in 50 years of marriage

We are downsizing this month

Yes, we'll be gardening, flowering and vegetableing again soon, and practicing and doing what we do.

Celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary on 7-7-2013

My hubby and I on our 50th wedding anniversary

 Susan and Harold Rogers

Posted this photo on FB in July, but just felt like re-posting tonight for special reasons

Baroque Artists of Shreveport anounce 2013-2014 season - See FB page for more info.

BAS, the Baroque Artists of Shreveport, has announced the coming 2013-2014 season. Be sure to check out their Face Book page online.

Performance dates are as follows

September 29 at Hurley Hurley School of Music, Centenary College

January 12 at St. Marks Cathedral

February 16 at Hurley School of Music, Centenary College

March 16 at St. Marks Cathedral

grapics by sjwr

Houghton Horns. Keller, TX August 2013 - one of my favorite places - just returned

back home with a new Rauch G lead  pipe for my Rauch Horn

installation by Houghton Horns

Played some quartets with friends this morning. Beginning to settle in with this newer, larger pipe. Practicing tonight as well between plays - the LSU/TCU game. I love the upper end of the pipe. So easy to play with a much, rounder, clearer sound in the higher register.. Thought I would have to work harder.

Dennis and my Rauch in good company in the Houghton Shop
the other pipe

Dennis blow torching the pipe melting the solid pitch into a pot after bending it into the appropriate Rauch curve

Dennis measuring the two pipes for the best fit

THE PIPE -  A Rauch G awaiting its new life

two previous photos taken at Houghton 

The Acadiana Symphony Orchestra opens its season September 21, 2013 in Lafayette with Smetana, Beethoven and Rachmaninov

  Graphics from the Acadiana Symphony webpage

Starting With A Winner

Masterworks Concert No. 1

21-Sept-2013 at 6:00 PM

Heymann Performing Arts Center
Tribute to Bruce and Madelyn Trible

Smetana’s symphonic masterpiece, Má vlast: Vltava, pays tribute to one of the most beautiful of all European rivers that flows through the Czech Republic. Exquisite photographic images of this majestic river will be projected and choreographed by Westwater Arts Photo choreography to the performance of the Acadiana Symphony. New Orleans International Piano Competition winner, Viktor Valkov, will perform the romantic Rhapsody by Rachmaninov. You will also hear works by Sibelius and Tchaikovsky. Click here to get your series tickets today.

Across the Ocean

Hubbell Chamber Series No.1

6-Oct-2013 at 3:00 pm

Acadiana Center for the Arts
Guest Artist: Bridget Kibbey, harp, and ASO chamber players

From the traditional and most elegant French sounds to Celtic tunes and South American dances, Bridget Kibbey will bring you a harp concert as you have never heard before! 

Get your series tickets here!
 

 Legacy of the Atchafalaya

Masterwork No. 2

19-Oct-2013 at 6:00 pm

Heymann Performing Arts Center
Guest Artist: The Harlem Quartet, 2013 GRAMMY Winner
Tribute to Bob and Judy Dunn

Don’t miss the world premiere of a specially commissioned work sponsored by the ASO and Evangeline Area Council of Boy Scouts, an homage by composer Glenn McClure to the beauty and the people of the Atchafalaya Basin! The 2013 Grammy-winning Harlem Quartet will lend a touch of jazz to beloved American classics. Beethoven’s bold and glorious masterpiece rounds out the program. Click here to buy series tickets!

Call 337-232-4277 ext .1 or download 

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