Media Release - "Spirit of Exploration" concerts April 24 & 25
Media release: prepared March 5, 2010
Contact: Elinor Bugli 775-883-4154
Carson City Symphony Concert "Spirit of Exploration" April 24 and 25
Features World Famous Horn Soloist Gail Williams
The Carson City Symphony directed by David Bugli will perform a concert, "Spirit of Exploration," on Saturday, April 24, and the Carson City Community Center, and on Sunday, April 25, 4:00 p.m., at the Oats Park Arts Center in Fallon. The concert features soloist Gail Williams in Horn Concerto No. 1 by Richard Strauss. Also on the program are the premiere of "Becoming Mark Twain" by David Bugli with narrator McAvoy Layne, "The Days of Struggle and Discovery (In Praise of Explorers)" by Bruce Craig Roter, Overture to the Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and "Triumphal March: The Spirit of Exploration" by explorer and Symphony hornist Gary Robert Buchanan.
Tickets to either concert are $15 general admission, $12 for seniors, students, and Symphony Association members, and free for age 16 and under. Tickets are available online at ActivityTickets.com, or at the door. Information: 775-883-4154 or CCSymphony.com.
The program includes pre-concert entertainment in the lobby by the Symphony Flute Ensemble beginning at 3:00 p.m., and a "Meet the Soloist" concert preview with Gail Williams and David Bugli in the Arts Bar at 3:15 p.m. Pre-show events are free to concert ticket holders.
Gail Williams, former Associate Principal Horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and member of the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra, is currently principal horn of the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, horn professor at Northwestern University, and an original member of the Summit Brass, with whom she has made eight recordings.
An internationally recognized hornist and brass teacher, Ms. Williams has presented concerts, master classes, recitals, and lectures throughout North America, as well as in Europe and Asia. She was featured horn soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony, Sinfonia da Camera, New World Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Syracuse Symphony, and the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra. She performed as Principal Horn with Seiji Ozawa and the Saito Kenin Orchestra in Matsumoto, Japan, and with Valery Gergiev and the World Orchestra for Peace in London, Berlin, Moscow, and Beijing.
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Photo: Gail Williams will be guest soloist with the Carson City Symphony in Carson City April 24 and in Fallon April 25. McAvoy Layne as Mark Twain will be guest narrator .
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