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Memphis Symphony Orchestra
to
perform at Fowler Center Feb. 13
The Memphis Symphony Orchestra will perform an evening of love songs for
a special Valentine’s concert, Friday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Riceland Hall of the Fowler Center on the Arkansas State University
campus, 201 Olympic Drive.
The
concert is sponsored by Bank of America and will include guest soloist,
Terry Mike Jeffrey, performing some of Elvis’ best love songs.
Jeffrey has performed as a singer, and is an Emmy-nominated
songwriter, entertainer, multi-instrumentalist, musical director,
arranger and actor.
The
Memphis Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1952, is currently celebrating
its 51st season. The 85-member Memphis Symphony Orchestra is
considered one of the country’s leading regional orchestras. The
orchestra is made up of 34 “core” members (employed 38 weeks of the
year) and the full subscription orchestra (which includes the core
orchestra, plus additional musicians hired “per service”).
Each season, the orchestra performs more than 80 concerts,
including Masterworks, chamber and pop series concerts (such as the
Valentine’s); family concerts; outdoor concerts; and special concerts
such as a musical tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a Fourth of
July Celebration and a Symphony New Year’s Eve.
In
September and May of each season, the orchestra presents light classical
music in the beautiful, informal outdoor setting of the Dixon Gallery and
Garden in its Symphony in the Gardens series. The orchestra
regularly performs at the Memphis Arts Festival and plays for Opera
Memphis and Ballet Memphis. The orchestra has also performed in various
Elvis Presley Birthday Celebrations, including the mammoth 20th
anniversary concert to commemorate Elvis’ death.
The
Jan. 25, 2003, grand opening of the new Cannon Center for the Performing
Arts in downtown Memphis has poised the Memphis Symphony Orchestra to
enter an exciting new era of service and artistic development.
This Bank of America Pops Series concert in Jonesboro for
Valentine’s, will be conducted by Vincent L Danner.
Danner, who is celebrating his eighth season with the Memphis
Symphony, serves as associate conductor. He is the principal conductor for
the Memphis Youth Symphony. He holds a BME from Oberlin College
Conservatory of Music and a master’s in orchestral conducting with
advanced studies in conducting and organ performance from the University
of Michigan.
Since 1996, Danner has led the Martin Luther King Jr. tribute
concert, and is very active in the Memphis Symphony Orchestra’s
education outreach program.
In 1999, in collaboration with the Black Repertory Theatre of
Memphis and the Memphis City and Shelby County Schools, he led the Memphis
Symphony Orchestra in a concert presentation of The Wiz, which was
awarded an honorable mention by the American Symphony Orchestra League.
Tickets
for the Fowler Center concert are $25 and $20 for adults; $18 and $14 for
seniors and students; and $9 and $6 for ASU students. They may be
purchased by calling the ASU Central Box Office at 870-972-2781 or online
at http://tickets.astate.edu.
For
more information, persons should call the Fowler Center at 870-910-8115.
The
next Fowler Center series event is Tony Kenny’s Ireland on March 2,
followed by the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra March 23, and Rhythm and Brass
on April 3.
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