Tag: music

SASO November Concert to feature guest conductor

Punch Howarth Mr. Pezone will guest conduct the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra on November 8 at SaddleBrooke. He hails from Latina, Italy, where he studied piano and organ. In Rome he was a student of liturgical music and conducting. In Italy he has conducted the Corelli Chamber Orchestra, the orchestras of Teatre San Severo and…

SASO new season opening concert

Punch Howarth Before presenting the preview of the opening concert of the 2014-15 SASO season, this writer would like to explain the absence of SASO articles this summer. I have had several health problems and was hospitalized. Hopefully this is behind me and I am back. Conductor Linus Lerner, with the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra,…

A maestro not to be forgotten

Conductor and Music Director George Hanson

Anne Movalson We meet people every day. Some people come into our lives; we lose contact with them and it’s hardly noticed. There are some whom we feel privileged to have met and known and then there are special ones who are a joy to have known but who also leave an imprint on our…

Tucson Chamber Artists to open Vista Fine Arts concert series October 12

Tucson Chamber Artists

Donna Langwig Southern Arizona’s professional chamber ensemble honors the 200th anniversary of the National Anthem and other folk and spiritual music celebrated as national treasures. Tucson Chamber Artists (TCA), entering its second decade as Tucson’s professional chamber choir, opens the 2014/15 acclaimed Vista Fine Arts series on Sunday, October 12 at 3:00 p.m. at Vista de…

Stargazing and music set for June 21 at Oracle State Park

Jennifer Rini Telescopes will be set up on the spacious Kannally Ranch House patio at Oracle State Park for viewing the night sky on Saturday, June 21. Visitors will enjoy live music while viewing the planets Mars and Saturn, the asteroids Ceres and Vesta, plus star clusters, nebulae and galaxies. During the evening the Milky…