Pianist Melanie Chae
Cellist Zoran Stilin
Violinist Edwin E. Soo Kim
Punch Howarth
Linus Lerner will be on the podium for the first of three 2015 concerts in February by the 70 member Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra. This program will be presented on Saturday, February 21 at 7:30 p.m. in SaddleBrooke at Desert View Performing Arts Auditorium; February 22 at 3:00 p.m. in Oro Valley at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church; and Friday, February 20 at 7:30 p.m. at Valley Presbyterian Church in Green Valley.
Opening the concert will be an overture by the operetta composer von Suppe, Light Cavalry. This is a rousing work that features a military gallop. Some of his other well known overtures are Pique Dame, Morning Noon and Night in Vienna and Poet and Peasant.
A major work will be Beethoven’s 1804 Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major. The usual three movements are marked: Allegro-fast, Largo-very slow, and Polacca Rondo- moderate. Soloists will be Edwin E. Soo Kim, violin, Zoran Stilin, cello, and Melanie Chae, piano.
Closing the program will be Symphony No. 8 in G major by Antonin Dvorak, a highly spirited four movement work. This Czech composer’s Symphonies 6, 7 and 8 are very Slavic in nature based upon folk themes and are followed by his well known New World Symphony No. 9. Number 8 is a great audience pleaser and is a very original work.
Go to www.sasomusic.org for tickets, orchestra information and soloist biographies.