Trinidad &
Tobago -
The National
Sinfonia
Orchestra (NSO)
will open
its sixth
season of
performances
with Edvard
Grieg’s
‘Piano
Concerto
No.1’ and
prize-winning
works from
the recent
‘Symphony
and Steel’
competition.
The upcoming
concert,
under the
patronage of
His
Excellency
Professor
George
Maxwell
Richards,
will be held
on
Sunday 16th
August,
2009, at
Queen’s Hall,
St. Ann’s,
Trinidad,
at 6 p.m.
The
production,
in
collaboration
with members
of the
National
Steel
Symphony
Orchestra
(playing the
"G" pans)
will feature
a mixture of
traditional favourites
and new
pieces.
The NSO will
present the
world
premiere of
two works
from the
recent
‘Symphony
and Steel’
competition,
the
prizewinning
Gary
Gibson’s
‘Caprice’
(an
Overture)
and his
prizewinning
arrangement
of
Kitchener's
'Rainorama'.
The
orchestra
will also
perform the
Grieg
Concerto, ‘O
Mio
Fernando’
from
Donizetti’s
‘La Favorita’,
the
Halloween
themed tone
poem ‘Night
on Bald
Mountain’
and the
equally
popular
Tchaikovsky
thriller
‘Marche
Slave’.
Vincentian
born Sean
Sutherland,
a former
lecturer at
The
University
of the West
Indies (UWI),
and San
Fernando’s
Michele
Dowrich will
accompany
the
orchestra
for these
romantic
pieces.
Through its
five seasons
of quarterly
concerts,
the NSO,
conducted by
Jessel
Murray, has
become a
hallmark in
the local
music scene.
The group
has
performed
concertos by
Beethoven,
Rachmaninoff
and last
year’s
‘Rhapsody in
Blue’. It
has also
provided
musical
accompaniment
for the
Festival
Arts
Chorale, in
last month’s
full
production
of ‘Disney’s
Beauty and
the Beast’.
Tickets,
reasonably
priced are
available at
the
following
centres:
Queen’s Hall
Box Office:
1 (868)
621-5102)
Joyce E. Ali
and Company
Ltd.: 1
(868)
624-3037)
Sanch
Electronix:
1 (868)
663-1384)
From
the News
Desk of
Jerome
Julien
Orchestral
Society of
Trinidad and
Tobago,
St.
Augustine,
Trinidad &
Tobago, W.I.
Contact: 1
(868) 663-2113/683-6405
