2008 Year in Review

Musicians Plan Sunday Chamber Music

Sixteen musicians from the Clinton Symphony Orchestra have a program of chamber music planned for 3 p.m. Sunday at Zion Lutheran Church, 439 3rd Ave. South in Clinton. Four ensembles, one each of strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion instruments are on the program.

A string quartet of violinists Sarah Cullen and Jerry Henry, violist Julie Marston and cellist Michael Wahlmann have prepared a quartet by Mozart for the occasion. The young genius composer wrote it as a "job application" in Vienna when he was still a teenager.

Woodwind instruments will be represented by a quintet of Crystal Duffee, flute; Nicole Kotman, oboe; Emily Bressler, clarinet; Cheryl Neumann, bassoon; and Kevin O'Keefe, horn. They will perform two movements of Quintet for Winds by Danish composer Carl Nielsen.

The brass quintet has chosen a piece by contemporary composer David Holsinger entitled "Scrappy Bumptoe's Picture Cards & Ragtag Diary." It is an intensely joyful musical depiction is of a retired couple as they jaunt about "Yewrupp," after years of a blue-collar life and child-rearing. Musicians of the quintet are Benjamin Logan and Kevin Moore, trumpets; Kevin O'Keefe, horn; Joseph Titus, trombone; and Mark Bressler, tuba.

Completing the program is a percussion duo by Symphony percussionists Joshua Duffee and Greg Marston.

Many of the performing musicians are also area music teachers who have an interest in performing for their students and their families. All students through eighth grade are admitted free to the concert. Older student tickets are $5 each, and adult tickets are $12.

Advance tickets are available at England Music Center in Clinton, Fitzgerald Pharmacy in Morrison and Grummert's Hardware in Sterling. Tickets will also be available at the door on Sunday. The Symphony is also offering a subscription to this concert and the two remaining orchestra concerts of the season at $30 for adults and $8 for students. This option is available only at the door of the concert.

Clinton Symphony Orchestra is in its 54th concert season, and the full orchestra will perform February 23 in Sterling's Centennial Auditorium with violin soloist Marcia Henry Liebenow, and April 12 in Clinton's Vernon Cook Theater with a student soloist to be selected from the upcoming Young Artist Auditions, open to area high school musicians.

by  Editor, theCity1.com
January 10, 2008