[Classifieds] [CLASSIFIEDS]: News from Simon Sinfonietta

Tue Oct 9 09:37:04 EDT 2012

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...News from Simon Sinfonietta 

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Stephen SimonAn evening of 
stunning achievement! 

This is how Cape Cod Times music critic W. Henry Duckham described our season opening on Saturday, September 15 . We had the delight of sharing with our audience the genius of Mozart's Linz Symphony, the virtuosity of Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis , and Saint-Saëns' tour-de-force Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor---at the hands of the exceptionally gifted, award-winning New York pianist Donna Kwong. 

If you missed our last concert, please don't miss our next one: Saturday, February 16, 2013. Please save the February date, and reserve early as our concerts typically sell out. We will present three additional lesser-known gems of the classical repertoire: C.P.E. Bach's Symphony in D major; Handel's Organ Concerto No. 13 in F major, The Cuckoo and the Nightingale ; and Mendelssohn's Symphony No.4 in E minor, The Italian . The featured soloist for Handel's organ concerto will be James Jordan, cited by reviewers as a "superb performer" who plays "authoritatively and sensitively." Please join us at Falmouth Academy and bring your music-loving friends. 

And there is more! The season continues on S aturday evenings March 23 and June 1 with great works by Handel, Prokofiev, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Mozart, and Schubert. Please click here for more details: Save the dates....and purchase your tickets today ! Tickets 

Stephen Simon, Music Director and Conductor 

The Simon Sinfonietta 

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Reviewer Lauds Creative Programming, Gifted Soloist 
donna kwong

"Donna Kwong, an extraordinarily gifted pianist, was soloist in Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor." Written in 1868, it is a quintessential Gallic composition, effervescent and ebullient with sonorous full chords contrasted with delicate, fleet passages. In contrast to the traditional concerto form in which the orchestra begins, only to withdraw by the dramatic entrance of the soloist, here the piano starts the work, announcing it is in charge from the very beginning." 
-W. Henry Duckham 

Read the entire review in the Cape Cod Times: Concert Review > 

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Simon Sinfonietta with Donna Kwong Pianist

Donna Kwong with 
Stephen and Bonnie Ward Simon A Conversation with the Artists 

In this video by Marilyn Rowland, award-winning New York pianist Donna Kwong plays excerpts from Camille Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, one of the highlights of our recent concert. She speaks here with the Simons about music, her own background, and more. 

Join us for the remaining concerts 

February 16, March 23, and June 1, 2013 

For complete program details, please visit simonsinfonietta.org 
$40 regular * $10 Student or * $135 patron (Patron includes 2 tickets in preferred seating and name in program for one concert, $55 is tax deductible.) 

Phone: 508.457.9696 , Ext.302 or Purchase Online: Tickets > 

The Simon Sinfonietta is a chamber orchestra of approximately 40 professional members founded in 2004 by Stephen Simon, the internationally recognized conductor who directed the Kennedy Center's Washington (D.C.) Chamber Symphony for 26 years. The Sinfonietta includes many of the finest professional musicians within the Providence-Boston-Cape Cod triangle. Proceeds from the Sinfonietta's performances benefit Falmouth Academy, Historic Highfield, and the Cape and Islands NPR® Station WCAI. 		

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