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Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights
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201516
Richard Lee, Music Director
Time for Three, “Knockout Concert”
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto • J. Williams: Theme from Schindler’s List
Charlie Chaplin Film City Lights with Live Accompaniment by the ETSO
Time for Three - America’s Most In-demand Trio • Beethoven: Choral Fantasy
Stravinsky:
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Unbelievably, the 2015/16 season is my fourth as Music Director of the
ETSO. The adage is true: time does fly when you’re having fun!
I am very proud of the programming we have in store for 2015/16. The
challenge, as always, is to offer a broad range and styles of music while
maintaining the high quality that East Texans have come to expect from
their Orchestra.
© Portraits by Bryan
The season contains everything from the wide-ranging stylings and
rambunctious energy of Time for Three to Brahms’ poignant German
Requiem. It features a multi-media evening with Chaplin’s famous film,
City Lights, as well as local premieres of works by Prokofiev, Schumann
and Beethoven. TWO soloists, plus the Organ Symphony of Saint-Saëns,
will inaugurate the new orchestra shell on opening night! The astute and
loyal ETSO patron will wonder about the lack of Brahms and Beethoven
symphonies. There just wasn’t any room to fit them in! I promise our
exploration of these works will resume in 2017.
It’s a great season, with something for everyone. After all, we are YOUR
Orchestra. See you at the Symphony!
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Opening Night:
Shell Dedication
September 26, 2015 - 7:30 pm
UT Tyler Cowan Center
Richard Lee, Conductor
Lucille Chung, Piano
Desmond Hoebig, Cello
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1
Schumann: Cello Concerto
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3, Organ Symphony
Join Richard Lee and the ETSO as they
step into a new era of music making with
the dedication of the new orchestra shell
at the UT Tyler Cowan Center. For this
special opening night concert, enjoy three
masterworks certain to showcase the new
acoustics. Internationally acclaimed pianist
Lucille Chung performs Prokofiev’s rousing
Piano Concerto No. 1. Desmond Hoebig,
former principal cello of the Cleveland,
Houston, and Cincinnati symphonies, is
featured in Schumann’s beautiful Cello
Concerto. The concert concludes with SaintSaëns epic Symphony No. 3, the Organ
Symphony. Come hear the ETSO as you’ve
never heard them before!
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Opening Notes with
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At 6:45 on performance nights,
Jim Broussard hosts a pre-concert
lecture on works to be played that
evening. Opening Notes takes
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A Multi-Media Experience
November 14, 2015 - 7:30 PM
UT Tyler Cowan Center
LeAnn Mueller
Richard Lee, Conductor
Chaplin Film Set to Live Music
Experience the movies as never before as the East
Texas Symphony Orchestra presents one of Charlie
Chaplin’s best films, City Lights, with live orchestra!
This classic has it all: comedy, pratfalls, drama, social
commentary and pathos...not to mention Chaplin’s
remarkable physical gifts. Add to this the challenge
of synchronizing the Orchestra’s live performance of
Chaplin’s original score to this classic film, and you are
in for a magical and unique evening.
Music for City Lights Copyright © Roy Export Company Establishment
and Bourne Co. except "La Violetera" © José Padilla
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Knockout concert
January 30, 2016 - 7:30 pm
UT Tyler Cowan Center
City Lights © Roy Export S.A.S.
Time for Three is a group that happily
defies any traditional genre classification.
With an uncommon mix of virtuosity
and showmanship, the American trio
performs music from Bach and Brahms
to bluegrass, folk tunes, and mashups of hits by the Beatles, Katy Perry,
Justin Timberlake and more. They
have performed at Carnegie Hall, with
numerous orchestras and collaborated
with prominent artists from Branford
Marsalis to pops singer-songwriter
Joshua Radin.
Their infectious personalities and
dizzying virtuosity are featured on this
performance in works from Vivaldi’s The
Four Seasons and the music of Bach
to renditions of Eleanor Rigby, Danny
Boy, the theme from Schindler’s List,
and Orange Blossom Special. Time for
Three is one of a kind with their crowd
thrilling, on the spot improvisations. This
could very well be the performance of the
season. Don’t Miss Out!
Richard Lee, Conductor
Time for Three
Zachary De Pue, Violin
Nicolas Kendall, Violin
Ranaan Meyer, Bass
“Simply put, they’re a
knockout! Three benevolent
monsters, monsters of
ability and technique surely.
But also conveyors of an
infectious joy that I find
both touching and moving.”
Sir Simon Rattle,
Chief Conductor,
Berlin Philharmonic
“But with their staggering
technique and freewheeling
genre-crossing, it’s hard not
to be swept up in the force
of their contagious energy.”
National Public Radio
“A rare blend of spontaneity
and precision.”
Wall Street Journal
“Demonstrating their
ability to deeply connect
with their audience
in a most interactive
way, they electrified a
full-house crowd.”
Indianapolis Examiner
LeAnn Mueller
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City Lights
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musical fireworks
March 19, 2016 - 7:30 PM
UT Tyler Cowan Center
Richard Lee, Conductor
Efrain Sain, Trombone
Elissa Lee, Violin
Dr. Jeffrey Emge,
UT Tyler Wind Ensemble Director
Wagenseil: Trombone Concerto
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Bach: Fantasia in G
Berlioz: Rakoczy March
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite
ETSO principal trombone, Efrain Sain,
takes center stage for the seldom heard
Trombone Concerto by Wagenseil. Then
violinist Elissa Lee, sister of ETSO Music
Director Richard Lee, joins the Orchestra
for Mendelssohn’s popular and virtuoso
Violin Concerto.
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© Cylla von Tiedemann
The ETSO is joined by brass and wind
students from UT Tyler for two orchestral
favorites, Bach’s Fantasia in G and Berlioz’
Rakoczy March. The evening concludes
with Stravinsky’s evocative Firebird Suite,
adapted by the composer from his score for
the famed ballet.
raise your voices
April 30, 2016 - 7:30 PM
UT Tyler Cowan Center
Richard Lee, Conductor
Patrick Pan, Piano
ETSO Chorus,
Jim Broussard, Choral Conductor
Sooah Park, Soprano
Yoonsang Lee, Baritone
Beethoven: Choral Fantasy for
Piano, Chorus and Orchestra
Brahms: A German Requiem
The season concludes with an evening of
powerful music for chorus and orchestra. The
performance opens with Beethoven’s Choral
Fantasy for piano, chorus and orchestra,
featuring 2014 Juanita Miller Competition
Grand Prize Winner Patrick Pan at the
keyboard. The centerpiece of the evening
is Brahms’ profound and moving German
Requiem. Featuring a chorus comprised of
some of the area’s finest voices, this concert
provides a grand finale to the season.
Join us at Liberty Hall in
Downtown Tyler for special
presentations throughout the
season. The ETSOA@Liberty
Hall series includes a variety of
programs from jazz to classical to
creative family programming. The
2015-2016 season will include
the return of the ETSO Jazz
Spectacular in Fall 2015 and the
ETSO Piano Festival in Spring
2016. Visit ETSO.org for more
details of upcoming offerings.
Tickets
for
ETSOA@Liberty
Hall events are sold through the
ETSO Offices, 903-526-3876,
and online through ETSO.org.
The ETSO does not perform at
these events.
ETSOA and Education
ETSOA offers educational opportunities
throughout the season, from master classes
with guest artists to the annual school
concerts. In 2015-2016, ETSO continues
its popular presentation of the Link Up
program from Carnegie Hall. This year-long
educational engagement provides classroom
curriculum for preparation throughout the
season, culminating in a participatory concert
with the ETSO in Spring 2016. The Link Up
program is open to public, private and home
school groups in the East Texas area.
For more details, contact the ETSO office
at 903-526-3876 or email [email protected].
Piano
LUCILLE CHUNG
“Knockout Concert”
TIME FOR THREE
season
Join us!
201516
Firebird
Suite
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Rouse:
Orange
Blossom
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Stravinsky:
Time for Three - America’s Most In-demand Trio • Beethoven: Choral Fantasy
Charlie Chaplin Film City Lights with Live Accompaniment by the ETSO
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto • J. Williams: Theme from Schindler’s List
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