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© 2010 Stratford Symphony Orchestra.
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Season 6
The Stratford Symphony Orchestra has announced its sixth season, featuring nine concerts beginning Friday, Oct. 22. For details, please see the season announcement. You can order subscriptions and single tickets online or at our ticket outlets: Anything Grows, 235 St. Patrick St., Stratford and Fanfare Books, 92 Ontario Street, Stratford. The Fifth! Anniversary Season Dear fellow music lovers, I invite you to experience our most exciting musical season ever! As we celebrate our fifth season of SSO symphonic offerings, it is my pleasure to share some of the delectable details with you. From our OPENING NIGHT GALA on October 30 to the special Sunset concert on July 10, we will present an abundance of brilliant masterworks and virtuoso performers. For the initial event on October 30, Canada’s foremost violin celebrity LARA ST. JOHN will join the SSO for a performance of the colourful and dramatic Violin Concerto of Erich KORNGOLD, which will be followed by the perennial favourite of ‘Fifth’ symphonies… that of TCHAIKOVSKY! This promises to be an opening night to remember. Our second concert in the main series of ‘HIGH FIVE’ programmes will be given on November 28. BAROQUE AND BEYOND will perfectly suit the more intimate acoustics of St. James Church, with a performance of such Baroque favourites as the ‘CHRISTMAS’ CONCERTO of CORELLI, the ever-popular BACH BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 2, with guests MATTHEW JONES, recorder, YOOTHA NELLER, oboe, DAVID ROBERTSON, piccolo trumpet, and our newly-appointed concertmaster. Concert three will be our annual fundraising CELTIC SPECTACULAR on January 23. Enjoy the rousing music of the STRATFORD PIPE BAND, the high energy of THE CORRIGAN SCHOOL OF IRISH DANCE, and special guests ANNE LEDERMAN, fiddler, SHARON KAHAN, Irish Flute, and Irish Harpist SHARLENE WALLACE ….all performing with the orchestra as well as in solo spotlights. Our FIVE STAR OPERA GALA on February 20 promises to be a great evening with our five superstars: Tenor DARRYL EDWARDS, sopranos ELIZA JOHNSON and CATHERINE GREEN, and baritones JAMES WESTMAN and MARK GARDNER. This exciting event will feature famous opera arias, duets, preludes, overtures and choruses with Stratford’s own STRATFORD CONCERT CHOIR! As if all this isn’t enough, we are delighted to present Canada’s renowned Broadway Star LOUISE PITRE on Saturday, April 10. Hear Louise sing a wonderfully eclectic programme of PRINCIPALLY PIAF! This very special concert will enthrall you with memorable hits from Piaf, Jacques Brel, Mama Mia, and many Broadway Classics. The symphony will also contribute a selection of film and pops showpieces to round out the evening. I know that this will be another season highlight…not to be missed! I also welcome you to a new initiative by the Stratford Symphony this season. Join us at Stratford City Hall for the three concerts in our WATERMUSIC BY THE AVON series. For MOSTLY MOZART, on May 15, we will present Mozart’s EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK and SYMPHONY NO. 29 as well as the magnificent TRIPLE CONCERTO of BEETHOVEN. Guest artists are violinist JOYCE LAI, cellist ANDRAS WEBER, and pianist MICHAEL ESCH. To conclude our season of riches we present the renowned MADAWASKA STRING QUARTET in a programme of great quartets on July 10. This SUNSET SERENADE concert will complete our season with the addition of clarinetist JEROME SUMMERS, to create a ‘fifth’ element for a performance of one of the great quintets of the classical repertoire. It is our wish to truly inspire and entertain you throughout the 2009/10 season, and I look forward to seeing you and your friends at each of these very special musical evenings. With continued best wishes and a HIGH FIVE,
Jerome David Summers, Music Director, |
