Post by Clouseau on Sept 18, 2008 23:35:11 GMT
www.herald-dispatch.com/news/briefs/x403599368/Huntington-Symphony-Orchestra-to-perform-Mozart-Mancini-and-Magic
tickets are available here:
www.huntingtonsymphony.org/store/page13.html
this does happen to be fairly close to me, but i have a previous engagement and am low on funds as it is, so i'm sad to have to miss it... maybe next time!
Huntington Symphony Orchestra to perform “Mozart, Mancini and Magic”
September 17, 2008 @ 01:34 PM
DAVE LAVENDER
Herald-Dispatch.com
HUNTINGTON — Falling leaves, a brisk touch of air in the morning, woolly worms scurrying about the yard and the sounds of the symphony filling the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center to the rafters — all signs of the coming season.
While the Huntington Symphony Orchestra’s pop season seems only a midsummer’s night’s dream away, the Symphony begins its Winter Season this weekend with a special Sunday matinee show at the majestic Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center.
The Symphony, under the direction of spirited conductor, Kimo Furumoto, will offer the program, “Mozart, Mancini and Magic,” at 3 p.m. Sunday [September 21].
Tickets are now available for the single show as well as for the three-concert season.
Flutist and Marshall University professor Wendell Dobbs said the members are excited to begin a second season inside the Keith-Albee.
“It’s a great sounding hall,” Dobbs said. “There were a couple pieces I didn’t play on last season so I was able to go out and listen. I was really impressed with the way the orchestra sounds in there. If we can be a part of that focus in the community to bring back such a monumental theater I think it is great for the orchestra and the public appreciates it.”
Starting the afternoon show, will be Mozart’s “Magic Flute Overture,” followed by a 20-minute Mozart composition called, “Sinfonia Concertante,” that features a mighty wind made up of Wendell Dobbs, flute; Lora Snow, oboe; Kay Lawson, bassoon and Stephen Lawson, horn.
“I guess it is probably unique in that it is a concerto but usually a concerto allows for one solo instrument and an orchestral accompaniment,” Dobbs said. “This instead has four soloists that act as a unit and do their thing and then the orchestra accompanies that. It is to the credit of a genius like Mozart that it all comes off.”
Dobbs called getting to kick off the classical season with Mozart as a special treat.
“Anytime you get to play Mozart for classical musicians it is almost like honey,” Dobbs said. “The writing is always so beautiful and sometimes the public doesn’t realize how beautiful it is that he wrote with all of the instruments in mind.”
The flute continues as theme in the second half of the show, as the late, great composer, Henry Mancini (1924 to 1994) who began his career on flute.
The second half traipses through the Pittsburgh area-native’s treasure chest of soundtrack work from classic movie and TV programs including musical selections from "Charade," "Hatari," "Breakfast at Tiffany's," “The Pink Panther,” “Peter Gunn,” “The Molly Maguires,” “The Thornbirds,” and “The Creature from the Black Lagoon.”
Hailing from the same town (West Aliquippa, Pa.) as orchestra member Sandy Lemke, Mancini scored more than 100 movies and recorded more than 90 albums.
“I think he was a very skilled individual because what you think about with Mancini is that every piece is totally different,” Dobbs said. “There’s just about every genre big band, jazz, movie music, and cute little specialty pieces...This is a nice walk through the Mancini park.”
September 17, 2008 @ 01:34 PM
DAVE LAVENDER
Herald-Dispatch.com
HUNTINGTON — Falling leaves, a brisk touch of air in the morning, woolly worms scurrying about the yard and the sounds of the symphony filling the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center to the rafters — all signs of the coming season.
While the Huntington Symphony Orchestra’s pop season seems only a midsummer’s night’s dream away, the Symphony begins its Winter Season this weekend with a special Sunday matinee show at the majestic Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center.
The Symphony, under the direction of spirited conductor, Kimo Furumoto, will offer the program, “Mozart, Mancini and Magic,” at 3 p.m. Sunday [September 21].
Tickets are now available for the single show as well as for the three-concert season.
Flutist and Marshall University professor Wendell Dobbs said the members are excited to begin a second season inside the Keith-Albee.
“It’s a great sounding hall,” Dobbs said. “There were a couple pieces I didn’t play on last season so I was able to go out and listen. I was really impressed with the way the orchestra sounds in there. If we can be a part of that focus in the community to bring back such a monumental theater I think it is great for the orchestra and the public appreciates it.”
Starting the afternoon show, will be Mozart’s “Magic Flute Overture,” followed by a 20-minute Mozart composition called, “Sinfonia Concertante,” that features a mighty wind made up of Wendell Dobbs, flute; Lora Snow, oboe; Kay Lawson, bassoon and Stephen Lawson, horn.
“I guess it is probably unique in that it is a concerto but usually a concerto allows for one solo instrument and an orchestral accompaniment,” Dobbs said. “This instead has four soloists that act as a unit and do their thing and then the orchestra accompanies that. It is to the credit of a genius like Mozart that it all comes off.”
Dobbs called getting to kick off the classical season with Mozart as a special treat.
“Anytime you get to play Mozart for classical musicians it is almost like honey,” Dobbs said. “The writing is always so beautiful and sometimes the public doesn’t realize how beautiful it is that he wrote with all of the instruments in mind.”
The flute continues as theme in the second half of the show, as the late, great composer, Henry Mancini (1924 to 1994) who began his career on flute.
The second half traipses through the Pittsburgh area-native’s treasure chest of soundtrack work from classic movie and TV programs including musical selections from "Charade," "Hatari," "Breakfast at Tiffany's," “The Pink Panther,” “Peter Gunn,” “The Molly Maguires,” “The Thornbirds,” and “The Creature from the Black Lagoon.”
Hailing from the same town (West Aliquippa, Pa.) as orchestra member Sandy Lemke, Mancini scored more than 100 movies and recorded more than 90 albums.
“I think he was a very skilled individual because what you think about with Mancini is that every piece is totally different,” Dobbs said. “There’s just about every genre big band, jazz, movie music, and cute little specialty pieces...This is a nice walk through the Mancini park.”
tickets are available here:
www.huntingtonsymphony.org/store/page13.html
this does happen to be fairly close to me, but i have a previous engagement and am low on funds as it is, so i'm sad to have to miss it... maybe next time!