Saturday, 9/22/2011 at 7:30 pm

Rapides Symphony Orchestra
Alexandria Riverfront Ampitheater

 “Pops on the River”with guest artists BeauSoliel

Our annual "Pops on the River" concert will feature everything you love about this annual event - great music, a beautiful riverfront setting, good friends, great food and drink. This year, we will feature multi-Grammy award winning Cajun music group BeauSoleil to bring a distinctively south Louisiana sound to Cenla.

Tuesday, 9/20/2011 @ 7:00 pm

Peace One Day 
First United Methodist Church
930 North Blvd
Baton Rouge, LA

A free concert hosted by the Baton Rouge Rotary Clubs
to promote peace and non-violence through music.

PROGRAM includes

Piano Trio in A minor Op. 50 .... P. Tchaikovsky
   Pezzo elegiaco 
  Tema con variazioni

Unkyoung Kim, violin
Paul Christopher, cello
MinJeoung Kim, piano

Thursday, 9/15/2011 at 7:30 pm

Paul Christopher, Cello

Dr. Francis Yang, Piano

NSU Magale Hall

PROGRAM 

Chant du Ménestrel, Op. 71 ....  Alexandre Glazunov

Suite No. 4 in E-flat major for violoncello solo, BWV 1010 .... J.S. Bach Prelude
    Allemande
    Courante
    Sarabande
    Bourrée I and II
    Gigue

PAUSE

Fantasie on motives from the opera Norma by Bellini, Op. 73 .... Jacques Offenbach

La prière du la soir .... Jacques Offenbach and Freidrich von Flotow

La course en traineau .... Jacques Offenbach

Sonata for Violoncello and Piano (1916) .... Frederick Delius

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Saturday, 9/10/2011 at 7:30 pm

South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra presents the Classical Mystery Tour
El Dorado Municipal Auditorium

The four musicians in Classical Mystery Tour look and sound just like The Beatles, but Classical Mystery Tour is more than just a rock concert.  The full show presents some 30 Beatles tunes sung, played, and performed exactly as they were written.  Hear "Penny Lane" with a live trumpet section; experience the beauty of "Yesterday" with an acoustic guitar and string quartet; enjoy the rock/classical blend on the hard edged "I Am the Walrus."  From early Beatles music on through the solo years, Classical Mystery Tour is the best of The Beatles like you've never heard them: totally live.

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Flash mob video from YouTube

As one of the first professional symphony orchestras ever Copenhagen Phil (Sjællands Symfoniorkester) did a flash mob at Copenhagen Central Station on May 2nd 2011, playing Ravel's Bolero. Conductor is Jesper Nordin.

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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