Anne Movalson On Sunday, April 17, 2016, the SaddleBrooke Symphony Guild will have the last event of this season. We will attend the Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s Classic 8 Concert, Sailing with Scheherazade, at the Tucson Music Hall and then have dinner at the Café’ a La C’Art. The conductor is Mei-Ann Chen, one of America’s…
Anne Movalson The first ensemble group of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra to perform in SaddleBrooke was the String Quartet and that occurred about 15 years ago. Since then the ensemble has returned to bring us wonderful music nearly every year. The Arizona Daily Star describes the quartet as “the closest thing Arizona has to a European…
Anne Movalson We hear the above phrase at the beginning of a New Year as the clock strikes midnight or the crystal ball descends in Times Square. Its answer is NO, and the SaddleBrooke Symphony Guild will prove this Saturday, January 9 of the New Year 2016. Conductor Laureate of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, George…
It won’t be long before the Tucson Symphony Orchestra will be filling the Tucson Music Hall with its wonderful music. Fifteen years ago, a group of music lovers formed the SaddleBrooke Symphony Guild with the mission to “Provide residents the opportunity to strengthen our community’s awareness and support the Tucson Symphony Orchestra.” The Guild facilitates…
Anne Movalson “Mahler took Beethoven’s final work, a farewell quartet, and transformed a goodbye into a work looking to the future and all its possibilities. It seems an appropriate time for me and the TSO to perform Mahler’s Symphony No.3 as we all look ahead to the future.” These are the words Music Director and Conductor…
Yes! America does have talent, and three of the most talented are coming to Tucson. Perhaps you may have already seen them as over 100 million people from around the world watched NBC’s America’s Got Talent in 2009 when the Texas Tenors became the highest ranking vocal group in the history of the show. They have…
Anne Movalson February 2, 2015, a Monday evening will be an on campus SaddleBrooke Symphony Guild event featuring the Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s Wind Quintet Ensemble. Formed in 1980, the Wind Quintet has been described as “a major force in chamber music” and has performed both adult and school children programs throughout southern Arizona. Representing each…
Anne Movalson The Tucson Symphony Orchestra is participating in the Tucson Desert Song Festival and will be presenting a fabulous concert featuring Opera stars and its own TSO Chorus directed by Bruce Chamberlain. The SaddleBrooke Symphony Guild will be sponsoring a bus trip and dinner before the concert on Friday, January 16, 2015. The bus…
This season’s first event on October 30 was at SaddleBrooke Vistas and featured the TSO String Quartet and a fabulous Oktoberfest dinner. November 14 the concert at the Music Hall features the young pianist Jon Nakamatsu playing Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 3 and Peter Bay conducting Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7. Bus transportation and dinner at Café a…
Anne Movalson We all like to have seats close to the action, be it a concert, lecture, play or athletic game. When you come to the SaddleBrooke Symphony Guild concerts at SaddleBrooke Clubhouse, you are guaranteed a seat near the musicians and a beautiful view of mountains turning pink at sunset. In fact, you may…