9/2/2011 Substitute auditions for Shreveport Symphony

The Shreveport Symphony will be holding substitute list auditions on September 2, 2011. Please visit www.shreveportsymphony.com for more information.

Fast Music by Don Freund

Cello wizard Paul Christopher tears into Don Freund's Fast Music for solo cello -- a new recording of 9 minutes of solo cello virtuosity which flies, propels, drives, flashes, chugs, blurs, and rocks. Paul Christopher is Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Low Strings at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. More information at donfreund.com

8/21/2011 @ 8:00 p.m.

Peter Bay and Britt Cello Section

PROGRAM

An American Overture .... Britten

Piano Concerto No. 1 .... Rachmaninoff
Christopher O'Riley, piano

Symphony No. 2 .... Brahms

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Saturday, 8/20/2011 @ 7:30 p.m.

Britt Family Concert
Wes Schulz, guest conductor

PROGRAM

Maskerade Overture .... Neilson

Trumpet Concerto in E flat .... Hummel
Natalie Dungey, trumpet soloist

Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra .... Britten

Cello section, Wes Schulz, and Britt Teddy E Bear

Friday, 8/19/2011 @ 8:00 p.m.

Britt Festival Favorites

Whitney Allen Giller and Paul Christopher

PROGRAM

Academic Festival Overture .... Brahms

Vita Accademica .... Samuel Jones
James Decker, trombone

Overture to The Thieving Magpie .... Rossini

Overture to The Marriage of Figaro .... Mozart

1812 Overture .... Tchaikovsky

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Sunday, 8/14/2011, at 2:00 p.m.

Chamber Music Concert
Britt Festival Orchestra musicians
First Presbyterian Church
Medford, Oregon

PROGRAM includes Prologue to Capriccio .... Richard Strauss

Debra Akerlund, violin I
Becky Soukup, violin II
Eliseo Rene Salazar, viola I
Monica Reilly, viola II
Paul Christopher, cello I
Whitney Allen, cello II

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Saturday, 8/13/2011 @ 8:00 p.m.

PROGRAM

Dances from Galanta .... Kodaly

Concierto de Aranjuez .... Rodrigo
Sharon Isbin, guitar

Symphony No. 2 .... Sibelius

Friday, 8/12/2011 @ 8:00 p.m.

Britt Festival Orchestra

PROGRAM: Time for Three

Don Juan .... R. Strauss

Concerto 4-3 .... Higdon

Symphony No. 5 .... Beethoven

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Saturday, 8/6/2011, at 8:00 p.m.

Britt Festival Orchestra

Rehearsing

Peter Bay, Music Director and Conductor

PROGRAM

Aida: Sinfonia . . . . Verdi

Violin Concerto No. 1 . . . . Paganini
James Ehnes, violin

Scheherazade . . . . Rimsky-Korsakov
 

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Friday, 8/5/2011 @ 8:00 p.m.

Britt Festival Orchestra
Peter Bay, Music Director and Conductor

PROGRAM

Les Preludes . . . . F. Liszt

Fantasia on Motives from Beethoven's The Ruins of Athens . . . . Liszt

Piano Concerto No. 1 . . . . Liszt
Muza Rubackyte, piano

Capriccio Italien . . . . P. Tchaikovsky

Joy and Milovan visit

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