Saturday, October 20, 2007 marks the new season of Fairfield County's own American Chamber Orchestra with the premiere of Dr. Rex Cadwallader's Symphony #2 in C-sharp Minor. Dr. Cadwallader, a noted jazz pianist and Chairman of the Performing Arts Department at Greens Farms Academy, had his composition Symphony-Wind River played by this same group in 2004. His Cello Concerto #1 was first performed by Rebecca Patterson with the Connecticut Valley Chamber Orchestra in 2006, as was his piece Connecticut Legends by the New Haven Civic Orchestra in 2006.
Stephan Tieszsen, Concertmaster of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, will perform Mozart's Violin Concerto #3 in G Major. This work will be played without a "formal" conductor in keeping with performance practices during Mozart's life.
The overtures Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky and Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach will prepare the audience for the upcoming Halloween celebration. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Fairfield with a pre-concert talk at 7:15 PM.
The Library invites you to investigate its compact disc collection for the above mentioned compositions. Feel free to check out Isaac Stern playing Mozart's Violin Concerto #3, the Concertgebouw Orchestra playing Night on Bald Mountain and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra playing Orpheus in the Underworld.