Punch Howarth The Feb. 15-16 concerts by the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra will perform two divergent works of Ludwig van Beethoven and an unusual opus by Richard Strauss. Opening the concert will be a frivolous short work, “Turkish March,” featuring the Turkish instruments, triangle, cymbals, and bass drum. The “Marcia alla Turca” is one of ten selections in the…
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Generals, September 2019
SASO fortieth anniversary season
Punch Howarth Members of the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra (SASO), with conductor Linus Lerner, will celebrate 40 years of providing symphonic music, as well as a home for instrumental musicians. Almost all of the new season’s musical selections have been performed by the orchestra during the previous 39 years. Some of the original founding musicians…
March 2019
ILR honors instructors
Ken Marich On January 30 the Institute for Learning in Retirement (ILR) held its annual reception to thank all of the instructors who volunteer to teach courses in the ILR program. Since the formation of the ILR in 2006, over 60 instructors have taught more than 300 courses in a wide variety of subjects, including…
March 2019
SASO season finale
Punch Howarth Opening with a very light Suppe’ Overture followed by a short compact Mozart concerto, the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra will close the current concert and season with a six-part Mozart Mass with soloists and chorus. Conductor Linus Lerner will lead this interesting program with soloist Adolfo Alejo performing the Mozart Violin Concerto No.…
Generals, September 2018
SASO performs the Mexican Joya, Sinfonia India
Punch Howarth The Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra will perform Carlos Chavez short-nationalistic-Amerindian Symphony at their first three concerts. Chavez is the dean of Mexican composers who lived from 1899 to 1978. He traveled widely and had close musical connections in the United States. As with a contemporary, Igor Stravinsky, he evolved through different periods…
Generals, September 2018
SASO with Linus Lerner returns for the 2018-2019 season
Punch Howarth This article will be a preview of the new and lighter concert season of the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra with Linus Lerner conducting four of the five concerts at SaddleBrooke and Oro Valley. Maestro Lerner was the impresario of the San Luis Opera Festival and his own International Voice Competition in Mexico…
Generals, August 2018
SASO with Linus Lerner returns
Punch Howarth This article will be a preview of the new and lighter concert season of the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra with Linus Lerner conducting four of the five concerts at SaddleBrooke and Oro Valley. Maestro Lerner was the impresario of the San Luis Opera Festival and his own International Voice Competition in Mexico…
Generals, June 2018
SASO performing opera this summer and other events
Punch Howarth Linus Lerner will conduct opera this summer at the San Luis Potosi Mexico Opera Festival from July 7 to 21. Members of the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra will be performing. SASO will be the main orchestra for a performance of Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutti on July 29. SASO members will join with members…
Generals, January 2018
SASO-SINO January concert
Punch Howarth Linus Lerner might possibly wear his Mandarin jacket to conduct the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra’s concert in January. This program will initiate the 2018 trio of concerts with programs in March and April to follow. The January concert will be a Chinese New Year celebration with the addition of numerous Sino musicians, some…
Generals, October 2017
SASO features three Eastern European works
Punch Howarth Opening the 2017-18 concert season the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Linus Lerner, will perform works by composers from Eastern Europe, Italy and America. George Enescu is a Romanian child prodigy-composer-conductor-pianist-violinist whose Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major will begin this concert. Composed in Paris in 1901, it was premiered in…