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9/10/2006
The Mississippi Premiere of American composer Judith Lang Zaimont’s “Elegy for Strings ” will be performed by the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, Crafton Beck, Music Director and Conductor, on Saturday, September 16, 2006 – 7:30 PM at Thalia Mara Hall, 255 E Pascagoula St. in Jackson, Misssissippi. Other works on the program include Berlioz’ “Roman Carnival Overture”, Schumann’s Cello Concerto (with guest soloist Daniel Gaisford) and Respighi’s “Pines of Rome”. Visit the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra online at http://www.msorchestra.com.
“Elegy for Strings”, written in 1998, was premiered in that year by the New York Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Raffael Adler, conductor and has also been performed by the Women's Philhamornic of San Francisco, the Kremlin Chamber Orchestra of Moscow, Russia, the Czech Radio Orchestra of Prague and the East Texas Symphony. The work has been recorded by the Czech Radio Orchestra for Arabesque Recordings.
Tickets for this concert are $40 and $25, with discounts for children and seniors, and can be ordered from the MSO at http://www.msorchestra.com/index.php?pageID=tickets_single or by calling 601-960-1565.
Also on September 16 at 10:30 AM, Judith Lang Zaimont will be giving the Robert Trotter Lecture: “Imaging the Composer in 2006”, as part of the College Music Society National Conference at the Crowne Plaza Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio, Texas.
Another feature of the conference will be a September 15 – 3:30 PM performance by pianist Elizabeth Moak of Ms. Zaimont’s “Impronta Digitale” from her Piano Sonata as well as 3 Preludes from “The Calendar Set.”
For more about the CMS Conference, please visit http://www.music.org/cgi-bin/showpage.pl.
More information about Judith Lang Zaimont, including sound clips of many of her compositions, is available at her website http://www.jzaimont.com/.
posted by Coming Events
9/10/2006 01:51:00 PM
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