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BY
JAMES D. WATTS JR.
World Scene Writer
The Tulsa Symphony Orchestra’s
second season will add a concert to
its subscription series, and will
resurrect a Tulsa music tradition
with Symphony at Sunset.
The 2007-2008 season will also
continue the orchestra’s more recent
tradition of presenting a unique mix
of music at every concert, including
lesser-known works by well-known
composers.
The season begins with “An American
Evening,” Sept. 8, with guest
conductor Gerhardt Zimmermann, music
director of the Canton (Ohio)
Symphony Orchestra and director of
orchestral programs at the
University of Texas. The program
will include Dvorak’s Symphony No.
9, “From the New World,” along with
the Aaron Copland ballet score,
“Appalachian Spring” and two pieces
by John Corigliano — “To Music” and
the Promenade Overture.
TSO concertmaster Rossitza Goza will
be featured in “A Magical Evening,”
Oct. 27. Goza will be the violin
soloist during Saint- Saens’ “Danse
Macabre.” The other fanciful — and
fiery — pieces on the program are
Dukas’ “A Sorcerer’s Apprentice,”
the “Magic Fire Music” from Wagner’s
opera “Die Walkure,” the “Ritual
Fire Dances” from “El Amor Brujo” by
de Falla, “Harry’s Wondrous World”
from John Williams’ “Harry Potter
Suite,” the “Firebird” Suite by
Stravinsky, and the final two
movements of Berlioz’s “Symphonie
Fantastique.” Daniel Hege, music
director of the Syracuse (N.Y.)
Symphony, will conduct.
“An Evening of Contrasts” on Nov. 10
will feature two “firsts” — the
Brahms Symphony No. 1, and the
Prokofiev Symphony No. 1, the
“Classical.” The evening, conducted
by Milwaukee Symphony resident
conductor Andrew Massey, also will
include Britten’s Suite on English
Folk Songs.
Oboist and conductor Vladimir Lande,
who performed here in October as
part of the Poulenc Trio, will
conduct “An Imperial Evening,” Feb.
2. The centerpiece of the evening
will be the Polovtsian Dances from
“Prince Igor” by Borodin, which will
feature the Tulsa Oratorio Chorus.
The rest of this very Russian
evening will include the Russian
Easter Overture by Rimsky-Korsakov
and two works by Mussorgsky — the
Prelude to “Khovanshchina” and
Ravel’s orchestration of the
“Pictures at an Exhibition.”
The March 15 concert, titled “A
Viennese Evening,” will feature
violinist Filip Fenrych, winner of
the 2005 Crescendo Award from the
Rotary Club of Tulsa. He will
perform the Violin Concerto No. 5 in
A Major, the “Turkish,” by Mozart.
Also on the program will be Mozart’s
Overture to “The Marriage of Figaro”
and the Symphony No. 5 by Mahler.
Benjamin Zander, music director of
the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra,
will conduct.
The final concert of the regular
season will be “An Evening With
Tulsa Symphony,” and will feature
several orchestra members as
soloists. Goza will perform the
“Zigeunerweisen” by Sarasate,
trumpeter Tim McFaddin and
trombonist Bill Damron will
collaborate of Turrin’s “Fandango”
and cellist Kari Caldwell will play
Faure’s Elegie for Cello and
Orchestra. Carl Topilow, founder of
the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, will
lead the orchestra in “The Cowboys”
Overture by John Williams,
Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio
Espagnole, Brahms’ Academic Festival
Overture, and “An American in Paris”
by George Gershwin.
The Symphony at Sunset concert will
be presented Oct. 7 on the grounds
of the Tulsa Country Club. This
concert is not part of the regular
season. Season tickets for the six
main concerts are now on sale,
starting at $96 for seniors, $144
for adults. To purchase, or for more
information, call the Tulsa Symphony
at 584-3645,
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