Press Release-For Immediate ReleasePops Classique Concert
Mezzo, Mahler & More!
La Porte County Symphony Orchestra
season of Symphonic Surprises
presents an evening of
Youth, Love & Orchestral Fantasies
Date: November 14, 2009
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: La Porte Civic Auditorium
1001 Ridge Street
La Porte, IN 46350
$18 Adult
$15 Senior (65+)
Free balcony seating for Student/Children
Table Seating available 219-362-9020, or online www.LCSO.net
Balcony tickets available at the Civic Auditorium box office during business hours
Press Contacts Only:
Lee Bauman, Executive Director, La Porte County Symphony Orchestra
Office: 219-362-9020, executive@lcso.net, cell: 630-235-8676
For additional photos of Maestro Philip Bauman, chorus children rehearsing or a variety of orchestra musicians performing please call.
www.LCSO.net
Saturday, November 14, 2009, at 7:30 p.m., the La Porte County Symphony Orchestra will perform a concert that should not be missed. Presented at the Civic Auditorium, this entertaining evening entitled "Mezzo, Mahler and More," has been in the planning for over a year. Music for all ages will combine many interesting perspectives to create a magical evening of symphonic creations. According to Maestro Phil Bauman, "This delightful combination of works could be best summed up as a concert that celebrates youth, love and orchestral fantasies."
 The featured soloist for the evening is Sandra Maytan, mezzo-soprano. Ms. Maytan is an emerging young singer with a richness of vocal expression. Born and raised in Germany, she currently teaches voice and piano in the Valparaiso University Partners for Music Program. She will sing about young love in an aria, "Una voce poco fa," from Giaochino Rossini's opera, The Barber of Seville. The gifted songstress will further engage the audience in Gustav Mahler's first song cycle, "Songs of a Wayfarer."
A contemporary work by Lucas Richman, "I Remember a Lullaby," promises to be a lovely musical vignette that combines Ms. Maytan's voice with the LCSO Children's Chorus directed by Matt Nelson. Along with the singers, featured actor Grant Fitch, visual artist Laura Krentz and dancer Kelly King play important roles in this nighttime story. The LCSO Children's Chorus is sponsored in part by a grant from the Unity Foundation of La Porte County. This community chorus has been formed to fill a need for elementary students in Grades 2-5 to further learn the basics of vocal and choral singing. This young choir will also be preparing songs for the symphony's April Pops concert..
Other musical arrangements for the November evening will include a bit of British humor and a newer look at classic Bach. Audience members will enjoy the wit in Benjamin Britten's " A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" narrated by Grant Fitch. Grant is an actor/storyteller who entertained LCSO orchestra patrons at a variety of occasions last season. "The Wise Virgins Suite" by William Walton will round out the concert with six orchestral "fantasias" based on chorales by J. S. Bach.
With all of these works in one concert, there is a clear emphasis on the "more" portion of the concert's title, "Mezzo, Mahler and More." In this 2009-2010 season of "Symphonic Surprises," each LCSO concert will have an unadvertised surprise portion that will give the audience an added perk which the audience members will be talking about for a long time to come.
Sponsorship for this concert includes: NIPSCO, La Porte Herald-Argus, Michigan City News-Dispatch, WIMS AM 1420 and Holiday Inn Express.
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