Trinity High School, February 13, 2010, 8:00PM
Conductor's Corner, 7:15PM
We are delighted to have
Roy Sonne
as the Guest Conductor for our February Concert! A violinist with the
Pittsburgh Symphony for 28 years, Roy has recently decided to devote his
full-time resources to his passions--music in the community and music
education of the community's youth.
For this concert, you will enter the exotic and passionate world of classical music. You'll enjoy Rossini's Overture to The Thieving Magpie. Legend had it that Rossini, who was notorious for not meeting deadlines, had to be locked in a room the day before the first performance in order to complete the work! He threw pages out the window as he completed them, and his copyists wrote out the finished orchestral parts.
We'll also be performing selections from Strauss's Gypsie Barone. The operetta, which sounds as if it was made for Reality TV, involves the marriage of a landowner and a gypsy girl. Of course, the gypsy girl is the daughter of a very rich Turkish Pasha. Along the way, a fortune teller, a rascally mayor and commissioner and a band of gypsies add interest and complications to the story and the lovers' lives.
And what concert on the eve of Valentine's Day would be complete without selections from Bizet's sultry and seductive Carmen, one of the world's most beloved operas?
Tickets for Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves may be purchased at Washington Federal Savings Bank, at Citizens Library, or online. Please join us at 8:00PM on Saturday, February 13, 2010, at Trinity High School, and help us celebrate Cupid's favorite holiday!
A 45-minute 'Conductor's Corner' session will begin at 7:15. Please come
early and learn more about
the composers, the performers and the guest
artists for this evening's performance.