MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 30, 2007 - The Rhodes College Orchestra and Wind Ensemble will open its 2007-08 season on Monday, Nov. 19. Free and open to the public, the concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in McCallum Ballroom of the Bryan Campus Life Center.
This year, Rhodes welcomes Dr. Paul G. Davis as conductor of the Orchestra and Wind Ensemble. Davis comes to the podium with an extensive professional background that spans both the classical and jazz idioms in conducting, performance and teaching. In constant demand as a conductor and clinician, his musical activities have taken him throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, including numerous Regional and All-State concerts and a highly acclaimed concert with the Grand Orchestre d'Harmonie des Guides of Brussels, Belgium.
Guest artist is flutist Emma O'Hagan. A Rhodes College senior from Birmingham, Ala., O'Hagan is the winner of the Gladys Cauthen Concerto Competition. She will perform the second movement from the "Concerto in D for Flute and Orchestra" by Carl Reinecke.
The remainder of the evening's program will feature a variety of music from throughout the world. The Wind Ensemble will open with works by two French composers, "The Fanfare from 'La Peri'" by Paul Dukas and "Pas Redoublé" by Camille Saint-Saens. The hallmark work for the Wind Ensemble will be "Lincolnshire Posy" by British composer Percy Aldridge Grainger.
The second half of the program features the Rhodes Orchestra performing Rossini's "L'Italiana Algiera," the Reinecke concerto, and concludes with Bizet's "Symphony in C." The final work is the only symphony by Bizet and recalls an atmosphere of Paris at the turn of the twentieth century and shows Bizet's penchant for writing exquisite operatic lines.
For general information about the concert, contact the Rhodes Music Department at (901) 843-3775.
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Learn more about Dr. Paul Davis at http://www.rhodes.edu/academics/4944_9008.asp
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