Upcoming posts - Marshall Symphony and Shreveport Opera

Marshall Symphony Orchestra outdoors in the square " Jeans and Classics" The music of Led Zeppelin, September 2009

Leonard Kacenjar - Also see photo at end of blog with the Drummer

Anthony Robinson and Larry Brumley

Mike Scarlato, piccolo tpt and Doug Parmelee, percussion

bassoonist David Gibson and horns Susan and Tom

Tom, Doug P, Mike and Doug L

Henry Edwards and Larry Brumley

Waiting for the show in the square

Michelle Perminter

David

Joe cracking the whip - get back to work, you people

Kathy and Michelle

Marshall Symphony's Music Director Leonard Kacenjar with Jeans and Classics Drummer for "The Music of Led Zeppelin" September 2009.

Longview Symphony Orchestra opens 2009-2010 season at LeTourneau College October 10

LSO Music Director Tonu Kalam

LSO Percussion section Robert, Anthony, Melissa, Scott, Doug, Chan

More photos of the LSO Oct 10 concert coming along with some comments about the upcoming season. Program included Respighi's Pines of Rome, Christopher Rouse' Rapture and Wagner's Prelude to Tristan and Isolde. Offstage periphery brass for Pines of Rome was provided by the East Texas Symphonic Band Ensemble.

East Texas Symphonic Band Ensemble

Tonu Kalam conducting the off-stage brass ensemble

Gary Bruns asking for paperwork

Music Director Tonu Kalam and violist Borys Smolaga

Tubist Jarrod Robertson

lower brass section

Trumpet - Lewis Smith

Brenda Hinton assisting

'cellists Elizabeth Fortner and Maomao Zhang

Bassoonist Anne Power and Sara Scurry

Concertmaster Isidor Saslav and asst. C.M. Renee Ward

Percussionist Doug Parmelee

Percussionist Scott Harris

Pr. Perc Chan Teague

Anthony Robinson 

Break time

Percussionist Robert Crutchfield

LSO Trombone section

October concert schedule

Oct 4 - Baroque Artists of Shreveport - Hurley School of Music, Centenary

Oct 10 - Longview Symphony Orchestra - LeTourneau College

Oct 24 - Shreveport Opera production of Man of La Mancha
http://www.shreveportopera.org/

Oct 25 (Sunday) - Acadiana Symphony in Alexandria - Til Eulenspiegel, Les Prelude, Overture to Rienzi and D. Stock's Concero for Percussion at Heyman Performing Arts Center
http://www.acadianasymphony.org/

Oct 30 (Friday) - ETBU Chamber recital - 7:30 PM FREE - The East Texas Baptist School of Fine Arts will present a chamber recital on Friday, October the 30th, at 7:30 pm in Mabee Recital Hall. Pianists Dr. Randall Sulton (ETBU Professor of Music), ETBU piano performance majors Angela Love (Linden, TX) and Jennifer Shafer (Big Piney, WY) will perform piano trios of Beethoven, Dvorak, and Mendelssohn in collaboration with clarinetist Dr. Tom Webster (Dean of the ETBU School of Fine Arts), violinist Russell Lewis, and cellist Pamela Martin. The Longview String Quartet (Mr. Lewis, Ms. Martin, violist Shane Almendarez and 2nd violinist Renee Ward) will join Dr. Sulton and Dr. Webster in Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes. Claude Bolling’s Sonata for Two Pianos, Percussion and Double Bass will be performed by pianists Dr. Sulton and piano major Lance Candler (Denton, TX) with percussionist Anthony Robinson (Marshall, TX) and bassist Chris Allen (Shreveport, LA).

October 31 - Monroe Symphony Orchestra - Halloween Concert - theatre, music, dance and poetry with Faustwork Mask Theatre http://www.bayou.com/symphony/concerts.php

November 1 - South Arkansas Symphony - Repertoire includes Piano Soloist Alon Goldstein playing the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1 - Orchestral favorites - Night on Bald (Bear) Mountain and Pines of Rome http://www.southarkansassymphony.org/

Baroque Artists of Shreveport (BAS) opens its 2009-10 season at Centenary College Hurley School of Music

Sunday, October 4, 2009, a rainy, dreary day outside but not inside Anderson Hall in the Hurley School of Music. Wonderful sounds of life eminated from the stage with the glorious sounds of Baroque music to a good sized crowd of music lovers including yours truly, who would love to play baroque music, but the repertoire is limited for horns. So I just became another enthralled audience member for a change and, of course, took photos. The concert was free as are all BAS concerts.

At the concert

Centenary students

Dr. Todd Gabrielle of Centenary Music School with Chris Allen

Bill Teague and friends

Michael Butterman with LaWanda Blakeney

pint sized audience members

Chris Allen

Ruth Drummond with bassist Chris Allen

violist Adrienne Gabrielle

violinist Angela Russell

Don Smith

Don Smith

'cellist Ruth Drummond

Jennifer Carsillo

flutist Sally Horak

flutist Sally Horak and violinist Jennifer Carsillo

harpsichordist Don Smith and 'cellist Ruth Drummond

oboist Theresa Zale Bridges

CONCERT NEWS - The Longview Symphony will present its opening concert 7:30 PM Saturday evening on Oct 10 at LeTourneau College. Unfortunately, budget cuts have forced the LSO to reduce its full orchestra concerts to 3 this season instead of the usual 4 plus the night in Vienna in late December. For the first time ever in my history with the Longview Symphony, smaller ensembles have been scheduled for several programs and will be held at various locations in Longview as per the symphony's website.

www.longviewsymphony.org/