Saturday, March 21, 2015

Guest Artist Performance

Louisiana Sinfonietta
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.



Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Graduate Violoncello Recital

Samantha Carpenter, cello
Elena Bogaczova, piano

March 18, 2015, at 5:30 pm
Magale Recital Hall
Natchitoches, Louisiana

Program

Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 . . . . Edward Elgar

Adagio-Moderato
Lento-Allegro molto a tempo
Adagio
Allegro-Moderato-Allegro ma non troppo


Cello Sonata . . . . Alan Rawsthorne

Adagio-Allegro appassionato
Adagio-Allegro molto


Monday, March 16, 2015

MUS 1500 Student Recitals

Magale Recital Hall
3/17/2015 at 12:30 pm
Natchitoches, Louisiana

PROGRAM includes:

Suite No. 1 in G Major for Solo Cello, BWV 1007 . . . JS Bach
Prelude
Courante
Gigue

Colin Horton, cellist


Thursday, March 12, 2015

A Composer's Testimony

Rapides Symphony Orchestra
Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center
Alexandria, Lousiana
3/14/2015 at 7:30 pm

PROGRAM NOTES by Jackson Harmeyer

Harp Concerto . . . . Carl Reinecke
Deborah Goppelt, harp - Winner of the RSO Concerto Competition

Variations on a Rococo Theme . . . . Peter Tchaikovsky
Gaylyn Foto, cello - Winner of the RSO Concerto Competition

Symphony No. 10 . . . . Dmitri Shotakovich


Sunday, March 8, 2015

Region VI Conference

Society of Composers, Inc.
Henderson State University
Russell Fine Arts Center
Harwood Recital Hall
Arkadelphia, Arkansas
3/7/2015 at 4:00 pm

Concert 7 includes:

10/F-2 Music in 5 Groups, Solo Cello Realization (2014) . . . . Mark Prince Lee

Paul Christopher, cellist



Friday, March 6, 2015

Colin Horton

MUS 1500 Student Recital
March 3, 2015 12:30 pm
Magale Recital Hall
Natchitoches, LA

PROGRAM includes:

Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 . . . . J.S. Bach
IV. Sarabande
 V. Minuet I and II

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Lesche Club Recital

3/2/2015 at 7:00 pm
Lemee House
Natchitoches, Louisiana

PROGRAM of Cello Duos by Jacques Offenbach:

Opus 21, No. 2 in F major

Opus 49, No. 4 in G major

Opus 50, No. 3 in A minor