Mississippi Symphony Orchestra - Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev Saturday 10-20-2012

MSO Music Director Crafton Beck

Pianist Alexander Ghindin

The Mississippi Symphony, Jackson, MS, Crafton Beck Music Director and Conductor, brings Alexander Ghrindin back to Thalia Mara Hall in The Mississippi Museum of Art in down town Jackson Saturday evening October 20 for the Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3. Also on the program ballet music from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. 

Pre-concert lecture at 6:45 PM

Concert time

7:29 PM

Thalia Mara Hall, Mississippi Museum of Art

255 East Pascagoula St, Jackson

Tickets may be purchased at the box office

601.960.1565

or online @

http://www.msorchestra.com/

Dress up or dress down and enjoy

Rapides Symphony Orchestra meets "The British Invasion" with Music Director and Conductor Joshua Zona 10-20-2012

The Rapides Symphony Orchestra under the baton of its Music Director and Conductor Joshua Zona presents the British Invasion Saturday, October 20, 2012 at the Mc-Laughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center in Alexandria. Guest artist will be 'cellist Evan Drachman playing the Elgar 'Cello Concerto.

British Invasion

program

Elgar 'Cello Concerto

Holst's Planets (selections)

Vivo - by Collin Mathews

 7:30 PM performance time

Saturday 10-20-2012

McLaughlin performing Arts Center, Alexandria

tickets may be purchased online through Paypal  at

http://rapidessymphony.org/concerts-n-events.php

0r by phone at 318.442.9709

East Texas Symphony Orchestra presents sax/flutist Joseph Vincelli and his jazz ensemble Saturday October 20, 2012

Photo courtesy ETSO website

Back to Bach with sax/flutist Joseph Vincelli and his jazz ensemble Saturday, October 20, 2012 will be presented at Liberty Hall in down town Tyler by the ETSO. Bach's influence on modern jazz and other music forms is sometimes overlooked, but these guys prove otherwise!

7:30 PM concert

Tickets may be purchased online at

  http://www.etso.org/

or by calling 

903.526.3876. X 4

Texarkana Symphony Orchestra to open its season Saturday October 13, 2012 at the Perot Theatre

for tickets

Contact Perot Theatre Box Office

903.792.4992

CLASSICAL EXCELLENCE         photo and information courtesy of TSO website

TSO Music Director Marc-Andre Bougie

photo by sjwrogers

Saturday, October 13, 2012 

7:30PM at the Historic Perot Theatre

Featuring:  Jean-François Normand

Repertoire:

       Mozart: Figaro Overture
  Mozart: Titus, Overture

            Mozart: Clarinet Concerto

            Haydn: Symphony No. 93            Beethoven: Symphony No. 1

Friday night rehearsal - Music Director Marc-Andre Bougie with guest artist Jean-Francois Normand and TSO Executive Director Andrew Clark

Etienne  Stoupy, Principal Trumpet

our timpanist Russell Roberts, Principal

clarinetist Jean-Francois Normand with Marc-Andre Bougie
backstage after the concerto

Mr Lynns International Cover Girl reunion 10-2012 at Monjunis

ULM Horn studies with Dr. James Boldin 10-5-2012 - On the road again with KDAQ

Biedenharn Recital Hall on the campus of ULM in Monroe is a medium sized, intimate arts theater with extremely fine acoustic  properties. I had the opportunity to play on the stage this afternoon with James Boldin offering comments from the theatre seats. Doesn't take much blowing to raise the roof there, say on the Siegfried Horn call, and yet the soft solo passages from Tchaikovsky's Symphony 5 are absolutely gorgeous and so strikingly rich and mellow on my Rauch. Have to try the Shostakovich 5 next time for the lower register.

Excerpts haven't always been my favorite form of study for Horn, (I like to play ad libitum from top to bottom registers and could for hours) but recently, I have once again gone back to some basics (which we all do from time to time) to focus on one or two areas. CHOPS! And more CHOPS!

During my drive to Monroe today, I listened to Liszt and Mozart on KDAQ. The Friday regional broadcast today was from a South Arkansas Symphony concert from last January featuring young Colton Peltier, a piano student now at  The Juilliard School of Music and violinist Elisabeth  Bordelon, of Shreveport, violin student of Kermit Poling.  Also on today's program was Wagner's Siefried Idyll, one of my favorite chamber pieces.

Next week, looking forward to my drive to Texarkana for our opening orchestra season concert. On the program - Haydn Symphony No. 93 in D, Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C, Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A with guest artist Jean-Francois Normand, Mozart Titus Overture and Mozart Marriage of Figaro. Mr. Peltier plays the Grieg Concerto No. 1 with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra on Thursday October 18 at the River Center Theater.

Once again my congratulations to James Boldin for winning the recent SSO audition for Fourth Horn.

Well, DANG, a victim of Collateral Damage AGAIN

Well, dang, I think I am really feeling unappreciated. My name has just been removed  today from the SSO Personnel List (Horn section) for the coming 2012 - 2013 season. Taking a glance at the SSO website musicians'roster a few minutes ago at first I thought its absence was due to several recent auditions and that the winner of my long time Full Time Second Horn position had returned a signed contract, but, perhaps not, as there appear to be other musicians still on the roster who are no longer members of the SSO. They have moved away or resigned or retired recently.

I have enjoyed my summer, my Horn studies and now have re-directed my musicians' blog to focus on a wider range of topics.  I am certainly not retired contrary to anything you may have heard through the grapevine. My orchestral experience is still needed but elsewhere. To those of you who have supported me through out my ordeal, an unfair and unjust termination from the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, I thank all of you. 

I am still Collateral Damage

Susan W. Rogers

If you have a music oriented topic you would like to promote on this blog, please, write me with all the information you would like to have posted at the following email address.

srogershorn2@yahoo.com

Some of you have my BellSouth address which is fine.

BRSO Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra presents pianist Colton Peltier Thursday Oct 18, 2012

Guest Artist Colton Peltier will play Grieg Piano Concerto No. 1 Thursday evening October 18, with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra. Also on the program Shostakovich  Symphony No. 10. Music Director Timothy Muffitt conducts the orchestra.

BRSO Music Director Timothy Muffitt

Colton Peltier

concert time 7:30 PM 

River Center Theatre

Tickets my be purchased by calling

 225.383.0500 x 500

or online at 

http://brso.org/masterworks.asp

The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra presents Magical Mystery Tour October 6 and 7, 2012

photo from ASO webpage

The Best of the Beatles as you've never heard them before is the billing for ASO's 2nd concert of the 2012-2013 season, part of the ASO Pops Series. Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles - 

Geoffrey Robson, conducting the orchestra.

Saturday Oct. 6   8:00 PM

Sunday Oct. 7    3:00 PM

Robinson Center Music Hall
426 West Markham
Little Rock, Arkansas
                                                                                          

http://www.arkansassymphony.org/visit/directions/

For Tickets

call 501.666.1761

or go online @ 

https://tickets.arkansassymphony.org/public/default.asp?cgCode=2&cgName=Pops

Hall and Allen (Winston and Chris) at 2Johns and Chianti Oct 4 and 7, 2012

More groovy/soul jazz and pop from Chris and Winston coming up this week. Hall and Allen as the jazz duo is booked will make your dinner plans easy . . . . Thursday October 4 and Sunday October 7. . . .  6 - 9 PM Thursday at 2John's and Sunday at Chianti's playing all your favorites, past and present.

Travelling to ULM with KDAQ and congrats to James Boldin

Friday noon found me travelling to Monroe again sharing my driving time with  KDAQ Public Radio, Shreveport. This past Friday's broadcast was from a fundraiser for River City Repertory Theatre. 

My favourite piece was "No More" from Broadway's The Good-bye Girl sung by a friend of my husband's from his dancing days with Ballet Lyrique, more recently re-named the Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet, then directed by his sister Marion Rogers Mills. Dina Bennett was one of his dance partners during these years when he was a danseur for the company. Dancing was an avocation for him and he had been dancing since he was a tot. He played the Nutcracker Prince in several of the Company's productions. In fact in his real vocation he owned H. D. Rogers & Sons, foreign automotive service (where our own sons also worked for several years) and he still is the best anywhere around at what he does which is repair classic and antique automobiles including our twin grandsons' Mustangs.

Thank you again, Kermit, for a delightful 1 1/2 hour drive. Not sure if it was just my car speakers, but I would liked to have heard more of the strings.

Horn player James Boldin and I spent this work session studying more excerpts and listening to some of the best horn players in the world on CD and DVD. I love the Siegfried Horn Call and the drama it evokes from the audience as he tries to awaken the dragon which is supposed to introduce him to fear, a feeling he has never known. In addition, the 3rd horn part from Brahms' Academic Overture is a really nasty one, but James can belt it out with gusto. The Tchai 5 1st horn solo in the slow movement is one I can relate to and enjoy playing - I played that same solo as an 8th grader at the Solo and Ensemble Band Festival in Natchitoches decades ago albeit in a different key. 

Hornist James Boldin

My sister and I just prior to leaving for the solo and ensemble festival

Lakeshore Jr. High Band uniforms

An old Conn 6-D horn.

Congratulations are in order for James Boldin, the new Fourth Horn for the SSO

Next week, more horn studies

The Chris and Matt Jazz Duo playing Jazz at Chianti's Sunday 9-30-2012

Bassist Chris Allen and keyboardist Matt Harris will be jazzing it up at Chianti's Italian Restaurant on Line Avenue Sunday September 30 from 6-9 PM in the Green Room. Enjoy the evening while listening to your favorite memories, food and music for the soul. Does it get any better?

Chris Allen above and Matt Harris below jazzing this summer at the SSMF Kozak Jazz Festival

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra opens 2012-2013 September 29 and 30 with R. Strauss, Dohnanyi and Lalo

Violinist Augustin Hadelich returns to the ASO with Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole this Saturday and Sunday at the Robinson Center Music Hall in Little Rock, Arkansas. Music Director - Philip Mann

photo from ASO webpage

Tickets may be purchased at 501.666.1761

or purchased online at

http://www.arkansassymphony.org/concerts/augustin-returns/

Performances

Saturday 9-29 @  8:00 PM

Sunday 9-30 @ 3:00 PM

-     Program    -

R. Strauss - Don Juan

Dohnanyi - Suite in f sharp minor

Lalo - Symphonie Espangnole

Rapides Symphony Orchestra begins season 9-29-2012 with Pops on the River

The Rapides Symphony Orchestra presents Pops on the River - A Night at the Movies, the sequel. Broadway's Natalie Gallo is the guest vocalist singing songs from the movies past and present.

Music Director of the RSO is Joshua Zona

POPS UPDATE - In anticipation of inclement weather, "Pops on the River", scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m. will be moved to the Alexandria Riverfront Center. (707 2nd St., Alexandria, two blocks west of the Riverfront Amphitheater.)

7:30 PM Concert time

for Tickets call 318.442.9709 

Natalie Gallo

photo from the Rapides Symphony webpage

2Chris's at 2Johns this Thursday, 9-27, 2012 beginning 6:00 PM - Jazz and Blues Night

Bassist Chris Allen and keyboardist Chris McCaa will be at 2Johns tomorrow evening from 6-10 PM for some soul touching jazz and blues.

Grab a friend, your significant other or jazz and blues colleague and drive on over to 2Johns for some great entertainment and mouthwatering food.

The 2Chris's
6-10 PM

2Johns Steak and Seafood

2152 Airline Drive, Bossier City

318.841.5646

Chris McCaa and Chris Allen

photos by sjwrogers

Longview Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Tonu Kalam celebrate their 25th season together

This coming Saturday September 29, Tonu Kalam celebrates 25 years as Music Director with the Longview Symphony Orchestra programming two choral works and the Tchaikovsky Serenade in C Major on the first concert of the 2012-2013 season

photo by Susan W. Rogers

7:30 PM Saturday September 29, 2012

Trinity Episcopal Church, Longview, TX

for  Season Tickets

call The Belcher Center

903.233.3073

or go online to

http://www.longviewsymphony.org/order-tickets

Concert Program for 9-29-2012

Prelude b minor by J.S. Bach/L. Stokowski

Mass No. 2 in G Major by Franz Schubert

Serenade in C Major by Peter I. Tchaikovsky

With the Kilgore College Chorale and the East Texas Symphony Chorus under the direction of Jim Taylor.

Soloists are 

Alyssa Marshall, Soprano

Jon Starling, Tenor

Tim Konvalin, Baritone

Unfortunately the program does not include Horns, so I will not be playing until the LSO December Holiday Concert

See you then and enjoy the LSO Season

The Lake Charles Symphony opens its 2012-2013 season September 22 with singer Fred C. Van Ness, Jr

The Lake Charles Symphony Orchestra, Bohuslav Rattay, Music Director

presents

soloist Fred C. VanNess, Jr.

in its opening concert of the season

Fred C. VanNess, Jr.

Photo of Mr. VanNess, Jr. and concert info. from Lake Charles Symphony website

Fred C. VanNess Jr. debuts with the Lake Charles Symphony Orchestra this Saturday night September 22, with the following arias.

Vltava" from Ma' vlast                                                            Smetana

Questa o quella from Rigoletto

Recondita from Tosca

Kuda Kuda from Onegin

La Fleur from Carmen

Una Furtiva Lagrima from L'elisir D'amore

Symphonic Dances from West Side Story                          Bernstein

The Rosa Hart Theatre - Lake Charles Civic Theatre - 7:30 PM

for tickets

call 337.433.1611

The East Texas Symphony Orchestra opens its season Saturday 9-22-2012

An All Beethoven Spectacular is planned by the East Texas Symphony Orchestra of Tyler in its season debut this Saturday night, September 22 at the UT Cowan Center.

With newly installed Music Director: Richard Lee

Piano Soloist, Winston Choi

i

photo from the ETSO web page

Program

All Beethoven

Consecration of the House

Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major

Intermission

Symphony NO. 3, Eroica

UT Cowan Center

Time 7:30 PM

For tickets call 903.566.7424

The Acadiana Symphony presents the Four Corners of Europe at its opening concert of the 2012-2013 season September 22

Join the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Mariusz Smolij, Saturday evening September 22, for a quick tour of Europe with works by Lutoslowski, Brahms, Sibelius and Respighi. Guest Artist is violinist Gyula Stuller

Concert time 7:30 PM

The Heyman Performing Arts Center

Layfayette, LA

For tickets, call 337.232. 4277

ULM and etc. 14 and 21 September 2012

Wonderful day to spend time driving to and from ULM. And I believe there is a football game on campus this evening which is being televised on one of the ESPN stations. Glad I was able to boogie out of the area a little early this week. 

My thanks to Kermit Poling at KDAQ for providing "a little travelling music" for me to enjoy on my trip to Monroe during the lunch hour. Kermit was the guest artist for the final SSO concert of last season playing Samuel Barber's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, one of my very favorite pieces. On this same program was Hanson's Symphony No. 2, a virtual fiesta for Horn players, Bernstein's Overture to Candide and Peck's percussion piece, The Grandeur and the Glory played by Chandler Teague, Anthony Robinson and Douglas Parmelee. Thanks, for the entertainment, guys!

Today James Boldin and I worked with various mutes and then listened to some of the Bach Mass in b minor, rather the 10th section "Quonium" (bassaria) of 24 sections , the one part in the entire Mass which Bach wrote to include the Horn in the instrumentation. Heard three or four versions, one of which I enjoyed more than the others. Natural Horn sound best to me, but a valved horn version was decent as well. Yep, you guessed it. I am now working on that piece together with my trusty Lawson. Sorry, no Corno da Caccia. No descant horn either. Stay with me, mouthpiece. Exciting stuff.

Listening to the last section of the Peck percussion piece on KDAQ in the ULM Arts parking lot

James Boldin in his music studio