Sunday, December 18, 2011

CHAMBER CONCERT: A FLAIR for OPERA January 15th

Sun, January 15, 2012 at 3:00 pm 
St James Episcopal Cathedral—Wabash at Huron, Chicago

CHAMBER CONCERT: A FLAIR for OPERA 
Sara Su Jones, Tatyana Stepanova, Dennis Moore

A companion concert to our all-opera program in May, the CBASO’s concertmaster, Sara Su Jones, with pianist Tatyana Stepanova, presents a wide-ranging program of rarely-heard virtuoso opera fantasies and transcriptions of themes from Der Rosenkavalier, Porgy and Bess, Carmen, La Traviata, and Die Meistersinger. 98.7WFMT program host Dennis Moore provides commentary.


Tickets $12 adults via our online portal, CBASO&Chorus tickets, or $15 at the door. 

PROGRAM:

Alard—Fantasy on Verdi’s “La Traviata”

Rimsky-Korsakov:—Aria of the Shemakhan Tsaritsa from “The Golden Cockerel”

Prokofiev—March from “Love for Three Oranges”

Rimsky-Korsakov—Song of the Indian Guest from “Sadko”

Paganini—Variations on a Theme from Rossini’s “Moses in Egypt”

Wagner/Wilhelmj—Paraphrase of Walther’s Preislied (Prize Song) from “Die Meistersinger”

Gershwin/Heifetz—Summertime, It Ain’t Necessarily So, Tempo di Blues

Strauss/Prihoda—Sequence of Waltzes from “Der Rosenkavalier”

Bizet/Hubay—Fantasie Brillante on “Carmen”

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