Mesquite Symphony Orchestra announces 23rd Season with new ticket packages

by PegNews wire

The Mesquite Symphony Orchestra, with Roger Gilliam as music director and conductor, is pleased to announce the schedule for the 2009-2010 concert season.

The season begins in September, when the MSO features Ricky Reeves, clarinet and Inga Kroll, viola as soloists performing Max Bruch’s Double Concerto for Clarinet and Viola. In addition, the MSO will perform Felix Mendelssohn’s haunting Fingal’s Cave, Richard Rodney Bennett’s music from the classic film Murder on the Orient Express and Beethoven’s wonderfully fresh Symphony No. 8. September’s concert is entitled Wanderlust. Both Reeves and Kroll are members of the Brookhaven College School of the Arts faculty in Dallas.

The orchestra will perform first at 7:30 p.m. on September 12 at Mesquite’s Art Center Concert Hall, regarded as one of the best performance venues in the area. They will perform the same program the following week, September 19, at Brookhaven College’s Student Center (Building S) on the Brookhaven campus in North Dallas. The Brookhaven performance will start at 7:30 p.m.

October 17 brings us back to the Mesquite Arts Center Concert Hall with a MSO POPS! concert titled The Beatles, featuring music that by the group that became a cultural icon during the 1960s and whose sound is still a fixture in the musical landscape. Hear many of their greatest hits as we travel back to a time of change. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m.

The November 21 concert is part of the MASTERWORKS series that highlights music of the great composers of orchestral literature. Entitled Asian Journey, the concert will feature the MSO’s own Amy Gould Whitaker as clarinet soloist performing an original composition, Wisteria, written by the conductor of the MSO, Roger Gilliam. Amy is a graduate of West Texas A&M where she received a bachelor and masters degree in clarinet performance. Amy teaches clarinet in several of the local school districts as well as performing in several performing groups. In addition, the MSO will perform John B. Chance’s beguiling Variations on a Korean Folk Song, Sergei Vasilynko’s enchanting Chinese Suite and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov’s enthralling Caucasian Sketches No. 1. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Mesquite Arts Center.

December 20 celebrates the music of the season with two performances, 5:30 and 8 p.m., at the Mesquite Arts Center Concert Hall. This annual holiday concert features a variety of traditional and non-traditional holiday favorites and includes two audience sing-a-longs. Our guest for this year’s holiday concert is the internationally-known soprano, Jenni Till.

The new year brings a January 30 performance entitled the The Big Top featuring music associated with the circus. Several collections will be performed including music from several of the shows of Cirque de Soliel as well as traditional circus music. As with any circus performance, be prepared for surprises. The performance will be at the Mesquite Arts Center Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m.

March 27 is the date for our annual Not Just For Kids concert, entitled Movie Music Spectacular. At this performance we will feature music from several of the more recent movie blockbusters including King Kong, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, The Dark Knight, High School Musical, and one of the great Disney movies of all time, Mary Poppins. The performance will be in the Mesquite Arts Center Concert Hall at 7 p.m.

In Romantic Fireworks, the May 1 season finale the MSO will feature Andrew Robert Sords, violin soloist performing Max Bruch’s majestic Concerto for Violin No. 1 in g minor. In addition, the MSO will perform Reinhold Gliere’s Russian Sailor’s Dance from the Red Poppy Ballet and Camille Saint-Saen’s marvelous Symphony No. 3 (The Organ Symphony). The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Mesquite Arts Center Concert Hall.

Sords has established himself as one of the preeminent new faces of classical violin. Already a veteran of the concert stage, Sords has recently toured with the Brahms, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven concerti to critical acclaim. He is the winner of the 2005 National Shirley Valentin Violin Award, the 2004 and 2005 National Federation of Music Clubs Competition, the Fortnightly Music Club of Cleveland, and the Festival de la Orquesta Sinfonica de las Americas Competition of the Casals Festival among others. The 2009-2010 season will showcase the concerti of Beethoven, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, and Tchaikovsky.

Advance tickets for the Mesquite Symphony Orchestra performances are available in packages from $45 to $90 or at the door for $15 ($10 for seniors). Advance ticket packages are available by calling 972-329-9453. Tickets are also available the evening of the concert, beginning one hour before the performance.

Source: Mesquite Symphony Orchestra