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Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra performs All-Mozart Concert on Saturday

Posted at 1:10 pm November 4, 2016
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Gabe Lefkowitz

Gabe Lefkowitz (Submitted photo)

 

The Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra and Oak Ridge Chorus will perform an All-Mozart Concert on Saturday.

The concert is presented by the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association, and it will be led by Maestro Dan Allcott.

It’s scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, November 5, at the First United Methodist Church of Oak Ridge.

The concert will feature the Oak Ridge Chorus performing Mozart’s “Coronation” Mass with the Oak Ridge Symphony, and Mozart’s “Divertimento in F major.”  The concert will also feature guest artist, Gabriel Lefkowitz, currently in his final season as concertmaster of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, in a performance of Mozart’s “Violin Concerto No. 5.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Entertainment, Front Page News, Music Tagged With: All-Mozart Concert, Coronation Mass, Dan Allcott, Divertimento in F major, First United Methodist Church of Oak Ridge, Gabriel Lefkowitz, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Oak Ridge Chorus, Oak Ridge Civic Music Association, Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra, Violin Concerto No. 5

Oak Ridge Community Orchestra plays at Dogwood Arts Festival on Saturday

Posted at 4:07 pm April 15, 2015
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Oak Ridge Community Orchestra

The Oak Ridge Community Orchestra Performing at the 2014 Dogwoods Arts Festival. (Photo courtesy of John Fairstein)

 

Daniel Webb

Daniel Webb

As part of the Dogwood Arts Festival, the Oak Ridge Community Orchestra will be performing famous and memorable music in Knoxville’s Market Square from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 18.

The free concert will feature the lively “Figaro Aria” sung by Daniel Webb, the emphatic fourth movement from the “New World Symphony” by Dvořák, the raucous “Polovtsian Dances” by Borodin, and the hand-clapping “Radetzky March” by Johann Strauss (Sr.).  This is a great way to enjoy a Saturday afternoon while browsing the shops at the Dogwoods Arts Festival.

The “Barber of Seville” is a familiar opera by Gioachino Antonio Rossini, premiering in 1816. The most famous aria from that opera is probably “Largo al Factotum,” in which the central figure, Figaro, vigorously touts his prowess as a barber and local facilitator of “everything.” The articulation and style in this aria are so impressive that Warner Brothers, Walter Lantz, and Hanna Barbera studios couldn’t resist featuring it in cartoon parodies. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Entertainment, Front Page News, Meetings and Events, Music, Nonprofits, Top Stories Tagged With: Alexander Borodin, Antonín Leopold Dvořák, Barber of Seville, Cyndi Jeffers, Daniel Webb, Dogwood Arts Festival, Figaro Aria, Gabriel Lefkowitz, Gioachino Antonio Rossini, Johann Strauss Sr., Largo al Factotum, Market Square, New World Symphony, Oak Ridge Community Orchestra, ORCO, Polovtsian Dances, Radetzky March

Music of ‘Emperor,’ ‘ Cinderella,’ ‘Christmas Festival’ to be featured at Dec. 6 concert

Posted at 9:05 pm November 29, 2014
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Oak Ridge Community Orchestra September 2014 Concert

The Oak Ridge Community Orchestra is pictured above in a September 2014 Concert. (Photo by Ellen Greenwood)

 

By Dale Gedcke

A free concert by the Oak Ridge Community Orchestra at 2 p.m. Saturday, December 6, will feature the “Emperor (Kaiser) Waltzes” by Johann Strauss Jr., the “Cinderella Suite No. 1” by Prokofiev, the “Radetzky March” by Johann Strauss Sr., and “A Christmas Festival” by Leroy Anderson. This is an exciting program that you will not want to miss.

In 1950, Leroy Anderson wrote “A Christmas Festival” to be performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra. Ever since, it has been a popular favorite of audiences and orchestras. Somehow, Anderson was able to weave all the famous Christmas carols into a progressive collage of color. The startling opening begins with “Deck the Halls,” and continues with the quieter carols in the middle of the suite. In the finalé, Anderson shows his compositional ingenuity with a raucous variation on “Jingle Bells” that is briefly interrupted by the climax of “O, Come All Ye Faithful,” before rushing to an exciting conclusion with a confluence of “Joy to the World” and the “Jingle Bells” variation. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Entertainment, Music, Top Stories Tagged With: A Christmas Festival, Cinderella Ballet, Cinderella Suite No. 1, Cyndi Jeffers, Deck the Halls, Emperor Waltzes, First Baptist Church, Gabriel Lefkowitz, Jingle Bells, Johann Strauss Jr., Johann Strauss Sr., Joy to the World, Leroy Anderson, O Come All Ye Faithful, Oak Ridge Community Orchestra, Radetzky March, Sergei Prokofiev

Concert debut: Lefkowitz conducts ORCO in Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian, Sibelius

Posted at 5:45 am August 31, 2014
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Gabriel Lefkowitz

Gabriel Lefkowitz

New Music Director Gabriel Lefkowitz will conduct the Oak Ridge Community Orchestra in September performances of compositions by Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian, and Sibelius.

During the September 13 concert, the orchestra will play the “Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture” by Tchaikovsky, “Adagio from Spartacus” by Khachaturian, and “The Karelia Suite” by Sibelius, a press release said.

“This is some of the finest orchestra music one can listen to,” the release said.

The free ORCO concert will be performed in the sanctuary of the First Baptist Church of Oak Ridge at 2 p.m. Saturday, September 13. It will be Lefkowitz’s debut with the ORCO as music director and conductor. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Entertainment, Front Page News, Music Tagged With: Adagio from Spartacus, Aram Khachaturian, concert, conductor, Cyndi Jeffers, First Baptist Church, Gabriel Lefkowitz, Jean Sibelius, Khachaturian, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, KSO, music director, Oak Ridge Community Orchestra, ORCO, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, The Karelia Suite, Will Burkhart

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