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GLORIOUS SOUNDS
Sounds of Glory will fill the Warner Theatre on Saturday, March 10, as music director candidate Daniel Meyer conducts the Erie Philharmonic. Meyer is the fourth of five candidates.
The concert will also feature guest soloist Alison Trainer, and the Erie Philharmonic Chorus and the Grove City College Touring Choir will perform Beethoven’s Hallelujah Chorus from Christ on the Mount of Olives, op. 85. The Erie Phil’s own violinist Ken Johnston will perform a Beethoven selection as well.
As Resident Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony, Music Director of the Asheville Symphony, and Music Director of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Meyer is recognized as one of the top young conductors of his generation. In Pittsburgh, he conducts over 40 performances a year, including subscription, pops, community, and education concerts. This season he led the orchestra in the world premiere of Richard Danielpour’s Pastime, based on the lives of the great American ballplayers Jackie Robinson, Josh Gibson, and Henry Aaron.
With a talent for creative concerts and a passion for connecting with audiences, he led the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Symphony with a Splash, an innovative series designed for professionals, as well as a Sunday matinee series for families called Popular Classics.
Mr. Meyer has also conducted orchestras in Cleveland, Utah, Forth Worth, San Antonio, Syracuse, Tallahassee, Mansfield, Northeastern Pennsylvania, Youngstown, Santa Barbara, Lansing, and Wheeling.
A native of Cleveland, Mr. Meyer is a graduate of Denison University and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. As a doctoral student at Boston University, Mr. Meyer received the Orchestral Conducting Honors Award. He also studied conducting at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar.
Concert attendees are invited to Classics in the Evening with Wally Faas, a pre-concert discussion, at 7:15 in the National City Community Room, adjacent to the Warner Lobby. They are also invited to “join the search” by visiting the Erie Phil’s new website, www.eriephil.org. They can learn more about each candidate and provide comments on the conductors’ performances.
Tickets start at only $15. Call 455-1375 ext 4, for advance tickets and information or order online at eriephil.org.
The Symphonic Series is sponsored by Scott Enterprises. The March 10 concert is also sponsored by Eriez Magnetics, WQLN, WPSE, JET1400.
MARCH MADNESS PACKAGE
A double-dose of the Erie Phil in March is sure to cure whatever may ail you. Treat youreself to the Phil's March Madness Package -- two concerts for only $30 per person!
Attend both the March 10 Symphonic Series show (Sounds of Glory) and the March 31 Pops (Night of Silent Film) for one great price. Offer applies to Section C seats only and applies to two concerts noted only. Call 455-1375 ext. 4 today for information and tickets!
THE CLOWN PRINCES AND THE PHIL
What better place to enjoy live symphonic accompaniment of great old silent films than at an original movie house like the historic Warner Theatre? The Erie Phil Pops presents A Night of Silent Film, Featuring Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd and the Phil on Saturday, March 31 at 8 pm. Rick Benjamin is the Guest Pops Conductor
You’ll have the rare opportunity to experience some of the funniest films by the best of the silent cinema comedians: Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Charlie Chaplin. In COPS as in most of his movies, stoical Keaton finds everyone (and everything) against him, and for reasons he cannot comprehend or control. Yet as his world crumbles, Buster’s beautiful “deadpan” is never compromised. Harold Lloyd was the most popular film comedy star of the 1920s, probably because his “Glasses” character was slightly more realistic and mirrored the social ideals of his audiences. He epitomizes the hustling, plucky young businessman out to succeed through hard work and ingenuity. NEVER WEAKEN
unfolds along these winning lines. Finally, what more really can be said about Charlie Chaplin? Transcending fad and fashion, his strange “Little Tramp” surely speaks to the downtrodden part of each of us. In THE ADVENTURER Charlie treats us to acrobatics, melodrama, stylized violence, and chaotic slapstick – in short, a “crash course” in the English music hall traditions of his boyhood.
By reuniting these three wonderful pictures with the authentic orchestral music that went with them, you'll get a glimpse of the simple magic and wonderment that was a moviegoer's experience eighty years ago. To paraphrase Gloria Swanson’s line in Sunset Boulevard, “These guys are still big…only the pictures got smaller.”
WIN TWO TICKETS TO THIS POPS CONCERT! Answer this question correctly and you will be eligible to win:
What was the first motion picture to actually tell a story? Hint: It was produced in 1903 by Thomas Edison's company.
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EIGHTH NOTES
- The Erie Philharmonic Chorus sang the National Anthem at a recent Erie Freeze indoor football game.
- Congratulations to long-time Erie Phil Board member Peggy Richardson for being honored by Mercy Center for Women as one of its "Dynamic Dozen." Each year the organization honors women who are making history with their contributions to the Erie community.
- The new addition to the Warner Theatre is expected to be completed by the end of the month. Features include a new lobby entrance off French Street, an elevator, two new bars, VIP lounge, offices, conference room, a family restroom, baby changing stations in every restroom, and a ladies restroom with 28 stalls!!
- An event is being planned for the "conclusion of the search for excellence" in early June. More details will follow. . .
- Cast parties - for Annual Fund donors of $100 or more - are scheduled post-concert on March 10, March 31 and April 21.
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