By Tom Ganser
Correspondent
Josh Barrett, the band director for Whitewater elementary schools will join members of the Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra in the first concert of the 2013-14 season, “Horizons” at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 16, at Calvary Community Church, N2620 Harris Road, Lake Geneva.
The concert will include the Overture to Die Meistersinger by Richard Wagner, Maurice Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, and Pines of Rome by Ottorino Respighi.
Also featured will be violinist Anna Stenzel in the first movement of Joseph Haydn’s Violin Concerto in G Major. Stenzel, a ninth grade student from Holiday Hills, IL, is the LGSO’s 2013 Young Artist Competition winner. LGSO Music Director David Anderson described Stenzel as “a budding violin virtuoso.”
The Wagner and Ravel works on the November program offer similarities and contrasts, according to Anderson. “Both of these works are dominated by melody, but they emphasize it in incredibly different ways. Wagner is massive and complex, with many layers of music working together, while Ravel uses the orchestra like a painter using a color palette. He sets the melodic lines using unique instrument combinations.”
In “Pines of Rome,” Anderson said, “listeners are taken on an emotional thrill-ride, from the exciting opening to the ethereal second movement, to exquisite moments of beauty in the third, and an enormous climax in the fourth.”
The Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra is dedicated to involving people of diverse ages, talents and backgrounds in performing and enjoying great music. The orchestra has performed regularly since 2001 in Walworth County, Wisconsin.
Tickets for the Nov. 16 concert are $10 for adults can be purchased online at www.lakegenevaorchestra.com and will be held at the door. Tickets can also be purchased at the door beginning at 6:45 p.m. on concert night. There is no cost for students 18 and under.
