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SEISO Tales of the Symphony concerts begin next week
SEISO Tales of the Symphony includes guitar concerto, Young Artist Competition Winner, and Scheherazade
The Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra (SEISO) will perform their second Masterworks Series concerts Tales of the Symphony, on March 23 at 7:30 p.m. at Burlington’s Capitol Theater and March 24 at 2 p.m. at Ottumwa’s Bridge View Center and 6:30 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Mt. Pleasant.
A symphonic suite based on One Thousand and One Nights in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Guest Artist, W. Mark Akin, performs a lush and beautiful guitar concerto by Joaquin Rodrigo, Marilyn Minford McCoid Young Artist Competition winner Renee Blunier performs Alessandro Marcello’s gorgeous Oboe Concerto in C Minor, and Conducting Fellow Jilly Cooke conducts Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro which sets the whole program in motion.
Renee Blunier, oboe soloist & Marilyn Minford McCoid Young Artist Competition Winner (Photo Submitted)
W. Mark Akin, Guest Artist & guitar soloist (Photo Submitted)
“Our Guest Artist, guitarist W. Mark Akin, is a wonderful player and is playing a beautiful and evocative guitar concerto,” said Robert McConnell, Music Director of the SEISO. “Our Young Artist Competition winner, Renee Blunier, is our first out of state winner and shows immense promise as a young oboist. The program has great variety and all of the pieces are accessible and extremely listenable.”
Tickets to the Masterworks Series concerts in Burlington, Ottumwa and Mt. Pleasant may be purchased at the door or on our website www.seiso.us. Adult tickets are $20. Children/student tickets (aged 0-22) are free. There is no reserved seating.
Make the most of your concert experience by attending the ‘Prelude.’ Music Director Robert McConnell will be on hand 45 minutes before each performance to talk about the programmed music in depth. ‘Prelude’ is supported through a grant from the Charles W. Rand Memorial Lecture Fund in Burlington and is offered free of charge to all audience members.
If you have questions, please contact the SEISO Office at seiso@seiso.us. More information is available on the SEISO web site at www.seiso.us.
