Strike up the band with Gershwin Eagles Hall
What's not to like about music by George Gershwin? Imagine yourself dining with friends, being served at your table with great food and beverages. Then see yourself having the time of your life laughing at jokes and clapping your hands to tunes like Fascinating Rhythm" being mesmerized over chords from Rhapsody in Blue, or lingering over the words to The Man I Love, It Ain't Necessarity So, "Crazy Over You," and "I Got Rhythm."
The Symphony of the Redwoods performs selections from the Gershwin collection at Eagles Hall in Fort Bragg on Saturday April 25, 2009.
It will be a musical extravaganza with instrumental and vocal soloists, an auction to conduct Strike Up the Band, a balloon raffle (everybody wins!), and a silent auction with great deals to entertain you between courses of great cuisine, all accompanied by music.
Order your tickets now as there is limited seating. Last year's "Pops" was sold out! Call 707-964-0898, or email: symphony@mcn.org
Schubert - Rosamunde Overture Haydn - Cello Concerto Featuring Burke Schuchmann cello
Cellist Burke Schuchmann studied in London, England with William Pleeth for five years, where he made his debut at the age of 19. He also studied for extended periods with Margaret Rowell and Colin Hampton. After his studies in England, he became principal cellist and soloist with the Salzburger Solisten in Austria. He has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe, the U.S. and Israel. He has also been principal cellist and soloist with the Sacramento Symphony and the Mendocino Festival Orchestra.
Bartok - Hungarian Sketches Dohnanyi - Variations on a nursery song
Featuring Natsuki Fukasawa piano
Natsuki serves as an artist faculty member at the Schlern International Music Festival in Italy, and coaches for the California Capital Chamber Music Workshop and is the Associate Director of the Sacramento Youth Symphony Advanced Chamber Music Workshop. She has also served as a Visiting Professor of Piano at the California State University, Sacramento and is a devoted teacher for her private studio. Natsuki records for Classico and Da Capo labels. Brahms - Symphony No.3
Pianist- Natsuki Fukasawa
November 2008
Prokofiev -
Classical Symphony
Ravel - Mother Goose Suite
Beethoven - Violin Concerto
Featuring Suzanne Leon, violin
Suzanne Leon has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia including appearances with the Detroit Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Orchestre Internationale de Paris, International Chamber Soloists, Pro-UNESCO Orchestra of Paris, and Soviet Emigres Orchestra. She toured Asia extensively as "Artistic Ambassador" for the USIA and has been featured in music festivals at Fontainebleau, Zurich, Evian, Radio France-Montpellier, Bordeaux and Saarbrücken. Suzanne Leon has been a member of the San Francisco Symphony since 1990.
All Symphony concerts are Saturday
at 8 pm and Sunday at 2 pm, in Cotton Auditorium, Fort
Bragg OPUS Chamber Music Concerts
are held on Sunday afternoons at 3 pm, in Preston Hall,
Mendocino
