2/28/2016 at 3:00 pm

Family Concert: Dr. Seuss' The Sneetches
Shreveport Symphony Orchestra
RiverView Theater
Shreveport, Louisiana

Free and open to the public – no tickets required

Join us for fun and free pre-concert activities starting at 2:15 PM:

• Arts activities with the Bossier Arts Council and Noel Community Arts Program
• Science activities with Sci-Port
• Instrument demonstrations with Shreveport Symphony musicians

Discover how the Sneetches learned to set aside their differences and live together in harmony, an important message in today’s world—told and illustrated by the ever-engaging Dr. Seuss with music by Lorenzo Palomo.

P. Christopher, E. Castro, M. Paz

2/27/2016 at 7:30 pm

The Broadway Tenors: Alan Campbell, John Cudia and Kyle Dean Massey
Shreveport Symphony Orchestra
RiverView Theater
Shreveport, Louisiana

PROGRAM

New York Medley—On the Town/Broadway Melody of 1936/42nd Street

Something’s Coming—West Side Story

All I Care About Is Love—Chicago

Come Back to Me—On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

Grand Old Name

You’re Nothing Without Me—City of Angels

Night Music Waltz—A Little Night Music

Lily’s Eyes—Secret Garden

Mack the Knife—Three Penny Opera

What Do I Need with Love—Thoroughly Modern Millie

Luck Be a Lady Tonight/I’ve Got Your Number—Guys & Dolls/Little Me

Rodgers & Hammerstein Medley—King and I/Oklahoma/South Pacific

Sondheim Medley—Selections by Stephen Sondheim

That’s Entertainment—The Band Wagon

Irving Berlin Medley—Top Hat, White Tie & Tails/Steppin’ Out/Puttin’ On the Ritz

Agony—Into the Woods

Bring Him Home—Les Misérables

Dec. ‘63 - Oh What a Night!—Jersey Boys

I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face—My Fair Lady

West Side Story Medley—West Side Story

Sunset Boulevard—Sunset Boulevard

Corner of the Sky—Pippin

Music of the Night—Phantom of the Opera

Lullaby of Broadway—42nd Street

P. Christopher, A. Hudlow, A. Black, A. Robinson, M. Thompson, P. Haas

Sunday, 2/21/2016, at 3:00 pm

Cello Duet Recital
Paul Christopher and Milovan Paz, cellists
at the home of Helen and Beecher Wood
Shreveport, Louisiana

Drei leichte Duos fur zweil Violoncelli, Opus 19 . . . . Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880)

PROGRAM

Duo I in C major
Allegro moderato
Allegretto

Duo II in G major
Allegro maestoso
Andantino
Minuetto (Allegretto)

Duo III in D major
Allegretto (Thema)
Variation 1
Variation 2
Variation 3 (Andante)
Allegretto

Music of Courage and Strength

2/4/2016 at 7:30 pm
Natchitoches Northwestern Symphony Orchestra
Dr. Douglas Bakenhus, Orchestra Director
Magale Recital Hall
Natchitoches, Louisiana

PROGRAM

Beethoven . . . . Egmont Overture

Haydn . . . . Symphony No. 100 in G Major. "Military"

Kenneth Olson . . . . City of Lights
Terrie Sanders, soprano

Borodin . . . . Polovtsian Dances

2/2/2016 at 12:30 pm

MUS 1500 Student Recital
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 12:30 pm in Magale Recital Hall

PROGRAM includes:

Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012 . . . . J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude

Alonso Restrepo, violoncello

Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008 . . . . J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude

Milovan Paz, violoncello

L to R: Restrepo and Paz

1/31/2016 at 2:30 pm

Rapides Symphony Chamber Players
Giancarlo De Lorenzo, guest conductor 
Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center
1202 Third Street
Alexandria, Louisiana

PROGRAM

Concertino in G Major . . . . G. Pergolesi (1710-1736)

Concerto for Flute and Orchestra in D Major, "il Cardellino" . . . . A. Vivaldi
Allegro
Cantabile
Allegro

Judith Hand, Flute

Concerto Grosso in G Minor . . . . A. Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 3 . . . . O. Respighi (1879-1936) 
Italiana
Arie di corte
Siciliana
Passacaglia

Trittico Botticeliano . . . . O. Respighi
La Primavera
L'Adorazione dei Magi
La nascita di Venere


Click here for Jackson Harmeyer's program notes

James Owens, personnel manager

1/23/2016 at 7:30 pm

Shreveport Symphony Orchestra
RiverView Theater
Michael Butterman, conductor

PROGRAM

SHOSTAKOVICH   Piano Concerto No. 2
Stanislav Khristenko, piano

GRIEG   Piano Concerto in A minor
Tomer Gewirtzman, piano

POLING  Symphony No. 1 “Shreveport Symphony”      
WORLD PREMIERE

For 65 years, the Wideman International Piano Competition has brought an incredibly talented group of pianists to Shreveport to compete, and many winners have gone on to great careers. Hear not one but two of these winners – Stanislav Khristenko and Tomer Gewirtzman – as part of the celebration, featuring the Grieg Piano Concerto and the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2. The evening will also include the premiere of a new work by Kermit Poling, commissioned in memory of SSO’s Honorary Board Chair, Virginia Shehee.

Visit and perform for 6th graders on 1/7/2016 at 1:30 pm

NSU Middle Lab School
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Katrice Lacour, Orchestra Director
Evan Korn, NSU alumni and substitute teacher

Recruiting in Alexandria

Alexandria Senior High School
Jovalyn Johnson, Orchestra Director
1/6/2016 at 1:30 pm

1/5/2016 Recruiting in Monroe

Neville High School
7:35 am and 8:35 am
Sheri Margrave, Orchestra Director

AND

West Monroe High School
11:55 am
John Jowers, Orchestra Director