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Enjoy Great Entertainment in
Your Own Back Yard!
The 2009-2010 Season! |
Beethoven: Creatures of Prometheus Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Adam Neiman, Piano
Your Plano Symphony Orchestra's tradition of celebrating one major composer on Opening Night has been well received by sold-out audiences. The 2009-2010 Season opens with Bravo Beethoven, featuring two of the famed composer's beloved piano concertos. Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 and the sublime Piano Concerto No. 4 have not been heard by Plano Symphony audiences in over a decade. Pianist Adam Neiman has performed with the symphony orchestras of Chicago, San Francisco, Saint Lous, Indianapolis, Dallas, Houston, Cincinnati and other prestigious groups around the world. His first broadcast with National Public Radio's "Performance Today" was nominated for a Grammy Award. He is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant. The Creatures of Prometheus Overture kicks off Bravo Beethoven with a sure crowd pleaser!
Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville
Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole for Violin & Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Natasha Korsakova, Violin
The spirited overture that raises the curtain on Rossini's comic masterpice kicks off this performance of Symphonic Showstoppers. The often long applauded overture is followed by a melodic and technically demanding shostopper known for its sensual rhythms, Symphonie Espagnole. Natasha Korsakova's performances have been described by critics as a "sinfully beautiful listening experience" and "an exceptional violin talent." Her international stardom, following an eleventh-hour tour of 50 concerts in Russia, Japan, Italy, Belgium, Holland and Finland in 1991, has now resulted in the award of "Artist of the Year 2008" in Italy. Showstoppers ends with one of the best examples, Tchaikovsky's exciting and powerful Symphony No. 5.
The Five Browns in Concert
Though your Plano Symphony has been sold out for years, few guest artists have created such a run ont eh Box Office as The Five Browns at their Plano Symphony debut. The response was simply overwhelming and the young artists signed autographs in the lobby far into the night. Therefore, the Brown family of virtuoso pianists with five grand pianos and 50 fingers hailed by The New York Post as "...the biggest classical sensation in years..." returns to the Eisemann. The Five Browns' distinctive keyboard talents were honed at New York City's Juliard School. The unique quintet performs classical and popular repertory captured in part on top selling albums. This is an evening simply not to be missed.
Friendship West Baptist Church Choir
Laurie Gayle Stephenson, Soprano
Collin County's most popular holiday tradition has played to full houses for years. The 2009 performance, Christmas Treasures, celebrates the heartwarming musical traditions of the season. Enjoy favorite carols, a touch of holiday humor, the ever popular audience sing-a-long, special arrangements of your favorites, th wonderful voice of Laurie Gayle Stephenson, visitors from the North Pole and more!
The Fifth Dimension
To celebrate the New Year, your Plano Symphony Orchestra proudly presents one of America's most popular groups of all times - The Fifth Dimension. The group has scored countless hits and best sellers during its distinguished career including Up, Up and Away, Aquarious/Let the Sunshine In, Never My Love and many more. The Fifth Dimension has produced 21 best-selling albums. They have also recorded music for and made appearances on numerous television shows. Their performance of Wedding Bell Blues was the title of and featured in the 100th episode of the "Gilmore Girls."
PFAMily Arts
Broadway composers and lyricists have contributed some fo the most memorable and enjoyable moments in musical theatre. Join your Plano Symphony Orchestra for an entertainment celebration as Hector Guzman and members of PFAMily Arts take you on a musical tour of Broaway's greatest contributions including highlights from Mamma Mia, Phantom of the Opera, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Jekyll & Hyde, Showboat, Cats, Carousel and many more!
Cirque de la Symponie Ensemble
Grand Prize Winners of the Collin County Young Artist Competition
This unique performance begins with the outstanding concerto performances of the three grand prize winners of the Collin County Young Artist Competition. These winners have continued to "wow" audiences since the inception of the competition. Plano Symphony patrons often write following the Young Artist performances noting enthusiam for the unbelievably accomplished performers.
The second half of this unique evening combines the grace and magic of the popular "Cirque" style of performers with beloved orchestral music. This combination has brought audiences to both disbelief and to their feet with many of the nation's leading symphony orchestras. This is indeed a unique event during the 2009-2010 season offering great entertainment in your own back yard!
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Piazzolla: The Four Seasons
Vesselin Demirev, violin
Vivaldi's work The Four Seaons was made even more popular in the movie hit by the same name starring Carol Burnett and Alan Alda. The musical depiction fo the four seasons of the year is a virtuosic tour de force for solo violin and orchestra and has been used as a vehicle by virtually every famous violinist both in perofrmance and on recordings. Lesser known but equally spectacular is Piazzolla's musicla version of nature's four seasons. Hector Guzman and Concertmaster Vesselin Demirev intertwine complete performances of both works for a speical ending to the 2009-2010 Season with your Plano Symphony Orchestra!
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