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Valentina Returns
Sunday, October 17, 2010 3pm
Grant Cooper, conductor
Valentina Lisitsa, piano soloist
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Pastorale
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3
Valentina Lisitsa
Described by critics as a "bona fide angel playing" and an "electrifiying pianist", the Ukrainian-born Valentina Lisitisa has been receiving rave reviews ever since her debut in Avery Fisher Hall for Mostly Mozart Festival. Valentina is at ease in a vast repertoire ranging from Bach and Mozart to Shostakovich and Bernstein. Most of her "free" time is devoted to practicing and learning new pieces. Music is truly her biggest passion.
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| Mark O'Connor |
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| An Appalachian Autumn
Sunday, November 14, 2010 3pm
Grant Cooper, conductor
Mark O'Connor, violin/fiddle
Grant Cooper: Appalachian Autumn (World Premiere)
Mark O'Connor: Fiddle Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No. 4
"The audience was on its feet...They were moved by Mr. O'Connor's journey without maps, cheering for the only musician today who can reach so deeply first into the refined, then the vernacular, givings his listeners a complex, sophisticated piece of early-21st-century classical music and then knocking them dead with the brown-dirt whine of a Texas fiddle." The New York Times.
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Camden Clark Memorial Hospital
Holiday Pops
Sunday, December 12, 2010
3 p.m.
Grant Cooper, conductor
Parkersburg Community Chorus:
Jean Singer, Director
Appalachian Children's Chorus
Selina Midkiff, Director
Hear all the favorite music of the holiday season, from both the
classical and popular traditions, in a holiday celebration perfect for
the entire family! The program will feature new holiday arrangements
created especially for the WVSO by Maestro Grant Cooper.
The orchestra will be joined by our very own Parkersburg Community chorus under the direction of Jean Singer
Sponsored by
Camden Clark Memorial Hospital
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A Touch of Tchaikovsky
Sunday, January 30, 2011 3pm
Grant Cooper, conductor
Adam Golka, piano soloist
Lilburn: Overture, Aotearoa
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Adam Golka
Lilburn: Symphony No.2
22-year-old pianist Adam Golka is the winner of two of America's most prestigious musical awards: The 2008 Gilmore Young Artist Award, and most recently the 2009 Max I. Allen classical Fellowship Award of the American Pianists Association. Golka has performed nearly 300 concerts since he took the first prize in the 2nd China Shanghai International Piano Competition at age 16 in 2003.
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| Broadway
and
Beyond
Sunday, May 8, 2011 3pm
Come and hear your Broadway favorites performed by two local masters,
Ryan Hardiman and Randall Reid-Smith
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