THERE’S STILL TIME! Tomorrow night at So. Whidbey High School! Monday – Jan 30 @ 7pm
I’ve sat down to type this with a racing heart, ears tuned to the recording I captured today, and excitement to get this written and posted fast, in the hope you’ll CHANGE YOUR PLANS, and be at South Whidbey High School tomorrow night at 6:45!
Where artistic director and conductor Legh W. Burns and the musicians of the Saratoga Chamber Orchestra,
have something very special for you!
What could be more perfect, in the dead of winter, than to be transported to Russia with the exultingly moody, brightly traversed, and powerfully portrayed music of Russian masters like Tchaikovsky, Prokoviev, Rachmaninov and Rimsky-Korskov? Not much, by the response of the packed house at today’s concert of From Russia With Love.
Joined by accomplished violinist Lara Lewison, a 13 year old pianist, violinist and singer, this concert is, all at once, an amazement, and a tour de force of excitement!
On the stage you’ll see friends, neighbors and that familiar island face, performing some of the most fantastic music Whidbey can offer, leaving you inspired with what is possible during our winter months.
This concert left me invigorated on a slightly chilly drizzly winter day.
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Tomorrow – Monday – January 30th – at 7pm – at South Whidbey High School
you’ll have the chance to brighten your horizons, in the dead of winter, all the way from Russia – with love.
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Photo: Kim Tinuviel
~ CHEERS AROUND THE EARS – OF CONDUCTOR LEGH W. BURNS ~
~ the SARATOGA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA and LARA LEWISON ~
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Tchaikovsky – Cossack Dance from “Mazeppa”
Prokoviev – Violin Concerto #2, Op. 63
Lara Lewison, violin
Intermission
Rachmaninov – Vocalise Op 34, No. 14
Rimsky-Korsakov – Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
CONDUCTOR: Legh W. Burns has been the music director and conductor of THE SARATOGA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA since its inception. He is Professor Emeritus of the University of Oklahoma School of Music and former first trumpet with the United States Air Force Band in Washington D.C. where he founded and conducted the Washington Chamber Ensemble. Additionally, Mr. Burns has taught at Springfield (IL) Junior College and the University of Denver, where he founded the National Trumpet Symposium and was founder and conductor of the Festival Chamber Orchestra of Denver.
Mr Burns is a graduate of The University of Miami (FL) earning a Master of Music degree in Trumpet Performance. He lists Pierre Monteux, Herbert Blomstedt, Richard Lert and Renee Longy as conductors and musicians with whom he has studied.
He is also very interested in the development of young musicians, having founded and conducted the Oklahoma Youth Orchestra and the Oklahoma Youth Symphonies and founding The Guy Fraser Harrison Academy for the Performing Arts. Youth orchestras under his direction have successfully undertaken performance tours in thirteen foreign countries, including a concert tour of The People’s Republic of China in 1981. For this, he was awarded the Music in Education Award by the Governor of Oklahoma.
THE ENSEMBLE is comprised of musicians from all corners of Whidbey Island and individual members of the SCO have held or currently hold positions in the Seattle Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Boulder (CO) Philharmonic, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Everett Symphony, Seattle Philharmonic as well as other regional and community orchestras and musical ensembles. The unique multi-generational membership of the SCO, allows talented youth of the community to perform alongside adult members in a professional-educational setting.
MONDAY JANUARY 30, 2012
7 pm
SOUTH WHIDBEY High School
PERFORMANCE WILL BE RECORDED BY WHIDBEY AIR KWPA
Whidbey’s only community radio station – for airing in the following weeks.
