Sunday, March 22, 2015 at 2:00 pm
LSU School of Music
Recital Hall
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
PROGRAM includes:
Concerto for Two Cellos and Orchestra . . . . Dinos Constantinides
Prologue
Dialogue
Monologue I and II
Epilogue
Isaac Casal and Paul Christopher, cellos
BATON ROUGE ADVOCATE, March 20, 2015
The Louisiana Sinfonietta will perform its fourth concert of the 2014-15 season at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 22, in the LSU School of Music Recital Hall, Dalrymple Drive, Baton Rouge.
The concert will feature a piece by Constantinides for two cellos and orchestra, with soloists Isaac Casals and Paul Christopher. Christopher is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and holds a professorship at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches. Casals is a noted young Panamanian musician who has been honored for his valuable contributions to the development of the classical music culture in his native country and is working on his doctorate at LSU.
Making her first appearance with the orchestra will be Sandra Moon, a recent addition to the LSU School of Music’s voice faculty, who will perform the aria “D’amour l’ardente flamme” from Hector Berlioz’s “The Damnation of Faust.” She also will sing “Midnight Song,” composed by the Sinfonietta’s maestro, Dinos Constantinides.
Also on the program will be Sinfonietta concertgoer favorite Michael Gurt, playing one of Mozart’s last works, “Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major.” Gurt has performed as soloist with orchestras in the United States and abroad, recently appearing at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Queensland.
Rounding out the eclectic concert will be Henry Purcell’s “Chacony” for string orchestra and two short works, both world premieres, by Chinese composer Xing Li and Lafayette resident Wyatt Newman, who are both composition students at LSU.
